1 / 10

Rural Livelihood Program

Rural Livelihood Program. RLP CARE Bangladesh. Program Goals. The goal of RLP is to “contribute to poverty reduction in Bangladesh” through the development of replicable models which address the root causes of poverty

linda-cochran
Download Presentation

Rural Livelihood Program

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Rural Livelihood Program RLP CARE Bangladesh

  2. Program Goals • The goal of RLP is to “contribute to poverty reduction in Bangladesh” through the development of replicable models which address the root causes of poverty • Two DFID funded agriculture projects; Go Interfish and SHABGE along with the Livelihood Monitoring Project, had been consolidated into the Rural Livelihood Program in April 2003

  3. Common traits between Go Interfish and SHABGE • Field school methodology: • Technology Transfer • Experimental learning • The “buddy” system as the main instrument to reach secondary adopters

  4. Common traits between Go Interfish and SHABGE • Organizational Development of Farmers Field school: • FFSs aim to have a continued institutional life beyond the project’s end • Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation • Organizational Strengthening

  5. Common traits between Go Interfish and SHABGE • Access to Services: • Linkages to service providers: private, state and NGOs • Elected FFS members in charge of cultivating linkages with service providers

  6. Common traits between Go Interfish and SHABGE • Gender: • Learning session on women’s participation in decision-making • Gender analysis at various field levels: household, village, and region • Gender learning sessions addressing men and women • Awareness-raising on women' rights

  7. Common traits between Go Interfish and SHABGE • Partner NGO Organizational Development; • Planning, Management, Monitoring and evaluation • Household Livelihood Security • Strengthening of conceptual skills

  8. Rural Livelihood Program in brief • 3080 ongoing and 2740 phased out FFSs • Around 145500 farmers involved • Establishment of Markets and Business Development Unit • End of the Program March 2005

  9. Marketing Activities • Methodology • No direct delivery • No subsidies, no free services • No Market Distortion • Development of linkages with the private sector • Promotion of “Embedded Services” • Interventions at the Market Value Chain level

  10. Marketing Activities • Four Main Interventions at the Program level: • Vegetable Sub sector, linkages with the private sector, • Para Vets, • Milk and Dairy, Interventions on Market Value Chain, • Mushrooms • Regional Marketing Activities

More Related