Gathering crops from a floating garden
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Practical Action Bangladesh
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en
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Agriculture , Environment
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Abstract
Phase 2 of this project follows the approaches and lessons learnt in the first phase. This phase also targets extreme poor people living on flood protection embankments close to the Brahmaputra and the Tista rivers. The project districts are Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur and Kurigram. The project will contribute towards the overall Economic Empowerment of the Extreme Poor (EEP) programme, a collaborative venture of UK Department of International Development (DFID) and the Government of Bangladesh, purpose of which is to lifting at least a million people out of extreme poverty by 2015. The project aims at to step up around 60,000 extremely poor women, men and children from extreme poverty and to make them better able to cope with natural disasters such as monsoon flooding and river-bank erosion. Activites are similar to the earlier phase; a wide range of proven, effective and viable technical means will be offered to the participating families. Technical capabilities of the participants will be developed which enable them to engage in farming - floating gardens, vegetable growing in sandbar, animal rearing, fish culture etc. and other non-farm earning options. The project will also interact with government and non-government entities to extend participants’ access to required services – like inputs, marketing, health, education etc. and by promoting producer groups, the project will encourage collective actions to bring about greater benefits to the participants from their livelihood interventions.