Our Programmes

Health, Rehabilitation and Community Care

BHF works to improve access to quality, inclusive, continuous, and dignified health and rehabilitation services for vulnerable individuals and households. Our approach includes strengthening community-level care, supporting vulnerable children and persons with disabilities, strengthening referral pathways, building caregiver capacity, and working with health systems and local authorities.

• Community-level care and referral pathways
• Support for persons with disabilities
• Caregiver capacity building
• Collaboration with health systems and local authorities

A particular area of technical focus is support to populations affected by Nodding Syndrome and disability, including access to health, rehabilitation, nutrition, psychosocial support, caregiver support, and social inclusion.

Nutrition, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

BHF works with vulnerable households and communities to improve nutrition, food security, and sustainable food production.

• Household food production
• Nutrition awareness and behaviour change
• Sustainable and climate-smart agriculture
• Household resilience and caregiver nutrition capacity
• Community food security

Livelihoods and Economic Resilience

We support vulnerable households to strengthen their economic resilience and increase opportunities for sustainable livelihoods.

• Household income-generating activities
• Skills development and youth economic empowerment
• Savings and financial inclusion
• Agricultural livelihoods and enterprise development
• Community-based economic initiatives

WASH, Housing and Dignified Living

BHF works to improve living conditions and promote safe, dignified, and inclusive environments.

• Safe water access
• Sanitation and hygiene
• Disability-inclusive WASH
• Housing improvement and household dignity
• Community awareness and environmental health

Protection, Safeguarding and Social Inclusion

Protection and safeguarding are integrated across BHF programmes. We work to prevent abuse, exploitation, discrimination, violence, neglect, and exclusion while strengthening safe referral and response mechanisms.

• Safeguarding and child protection
• Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse
• Confidential complaints mechanisms and community feedback
• Disability inclusion and gender responsiveness
• Social inclusion and human dignity

BHF’s Organizational Profile specifically identifies safeguarding, confidential complaint mechanisms, survivor-centred response, and community feedback as institutional commitments.

Education, Skills Development and Community Empowerment

BHF supports vulnerable children, young people, caregivers, and communities to strengthen knowledge, skills, participation, and opportunities. We promote inclusive education, life skills, community awareness, capacity strengthening, and locally led solutions.

Humanitarian and Emergency Response

BHF responds to urgent humanitarian needs while linking emergency assistance with recovery and longer-term resilience. Our humanitarian approach prioritizes:

• Vulnerable households
• Children and persons with disabilities
• Displaced and marginalized populations
• Food-insecure households
• Protection, safeguarding and emergency assistance
• Recovery and resilience

Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability

BHF recognizes the growing effects of climate change on agriculture, livelihoods, food security, health, and household resilience. Our approach promotes:

• Climate-smart agriculture and agroforestry
• Environmental conservation
• Sustainable natural resource management
• Community resilience and sustainable livelihoods

Research, Innovation and Partnerships

BHF uses research, evidence, innovation, partnerships, and learning to improve programme quality and sustainability. We generate and use evidence to understand community needs, measure results, adapt interventions, document learning, and inform policy and practice.