ABSTRACT
Urban growth provides national engines of growth with opportunities for employment and engagement in industries and markets. Increasing globalization has led to Dhaka being a major producer and global exporter of garments, and while much of this takes place in large factories, much smaller, household-level production activities are also common mainstays for many households. CARE Bangladesh, a Country Office of CARE International, one of the world's largest international NGOs, has been working in Bangladesh since 1955. CARE Bangladesh's strategy is based on two principal elements: its past track record of work, giving it its own comparative advantage in the area of work it has chosen to engage in, and on its own analysis of what lasting changes need to take place for its mission to be realized. CARE was also a founder member of the Bangladesh Urban Round Table, a high-level forum for furthering issues of urban poverty.
