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24 Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (section Process of empowerment within BGP)
gender norms 4.2.6 Process of empowerment within BGP 4.2.7 Estimate of the number of women empowered due to BGP 4.3 Increased well-being of women and their

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Summary of Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management
Participatory Water Management (PWM) in BGP comprises a set of activities that aims to utilise water infrastructure for transforming agriculture in the

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34 Monitoring and evaluation (redirect from 32 Monitoring and Evaluation in BGP)
patterns and improved farming at WMG level, BGP conducted series of WMG surveys in 2018 and 2019. In 2021, BGP team implemented another WMG survey, that

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31 Capacity Building
fish-cattle rearing-nutrition module. Following the last ARM recommendations BGP reviewed the basics of the TA FFS program. This group of polder dwellers use

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15 WMO capacity building
widely applied method for strengthening capacities of user organisations; and BGP is no exception to that practice. The idea is, simply put, to establish community

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20 Way forward
The story of Participatory Water Management in BGP – but also in Bangladesh as a whole – is one of two steps forward and one step back. Critics could easily

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33 Horizontal learning (section Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP)
Learning in BGP was modest but significant. The method attracted quite some attention and this sparked a replication by a third party using the BGP innovation

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02 Institutional Setting
design of BGP; and it followed logically that EKN welcomed both MoWR and MoA as development partners for BGP. The Administrative Arrangement for BGP indicated

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14 Consultation and participation in planning
in many cases be doubted. The strong adherence to the BGP components raised the expectation that BGP would take the initiative to support the listed actions

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27 Sustainability
that -at least temporarily- impacted BGP beneficiaries, negating some achievements of the preceding period of BGP supported development: the COVID-19 pandemic

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18 The Water Management Partnership
Engineer and representatives of the Executive Committees of 35 WMAs for the 22 BGP polders. Special agreement signing ceremonies (batch 1, batch 2 and batch

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32 Agricultural Extension Methods and Communication (section Sample of BGP communication material)
employed by BGP is, however, treated as a method in its own right and is discussed at greater length in Section G Chapter 33. Videos – the BGP TA team developed

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19 Operationalisation of the PWM concept
Participatory Water Management Rules from the onset to the completion of BGP. The experience in BGP shows how, beginning with the project formulation, the PWM-concept

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05 Outcomes and Impact from Participatory Water Management
least one member attending BGP Farmer Field Days, while over one third (38%) attended other BGP training. Relatively more BGP FFS and other training took

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23 Outreach and Outcomes of Commercialisation Interventions (section Feedback from FGDs with farmers on outcomes of BGP interventions)
among a selection of BGP polders and WMGs. The WMG survey results of Technical Report 26 (TR26) show that since the start of BGP changes in land use were

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Summary and Introduction of Section B: Development Outcomes
attributed to BGP. This shows that EIRR remains at an acceptable 15% even if only 10% of the increase in farm income is attributed to BGP. The effect of BGP benefits

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Executive summary: a call for action (section What, then, are the key lessons from BGP?)
Executive Summary of the Lessons Learnt Report of the Blue Gold Program (BGP), is written with the aim of assisting its intended readership of policy makers

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06 Outcomes and Impact from Agricultural Development (section Return to the investment in BGP)
in BGP. Cumulative expenditure of BGP funds up to June 2021 is shown in Table 6.19. The BWDB and DAE expenditure includes GoB contributions to BGP costs

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16 Women’s participation in water management
how BGP contributed to women’s empowerment is in chapter 24. Factors that enabled or enhanced successful women’s participation in PWM include BGP’s starting

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Summary of Section F - Responsible Development: Inclusion and Sustainability
inhabitants in BGP polders are smallholder and landless farmers, BGP was already a poverty-targeted project at its core. While all households in the BGP polders

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39 BGIF Lessons Learnt (section Selecting/Monitoring – added-value of appointing BGP technical leads)
production via social media channels, like BGP Facebook group but also external lines like Water-Channel. BGP was successful getting broadcasting space

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08 The Outcomes and Impact on the Livelihoods of Women
objectives of BGP are met, interventions of the Blue Gold Program (BGP) were designed and implemented in a way that both men and women benefited. BGP worked on

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Summary of Section H: Innovation Fund
integral part of BGP to ensure applicants targeted BGP outcomes through their innovations. This would have been supported by the BGP itself, planning activities

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17 In-polder water management
umbrella – BGP and DAE staff often could not make the translation to the activities in the field. Guiding staff – in this case from the BGP TA team as

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Summary of Section A: Background and context
the project’s start evolved during the seven-year implementation period. BGP postulates that ‘water management for development’- the combining of water

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07 Inclusive Development Approach: Outcomes and Impacts from Homestead Based Production
from 61% since the start of BGP (Table 7.9). Households with larger areas of land more often own animals. Since the start of BGP an increased number of households

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03 Social, Physical and Environmental Context
households for BGP interventions. In term of area and population, Khulna District has the highest number among the three Districts of BGP area and the areas

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30 Evolution of TA Organisational Arrangements
benefits created by BGP. In practice this meant that women / women farmers, landless and smallholder farmers were also explicitly targeted by BGP interventions

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Summary of Section E: Agricultural Development
The Theory of Change for the Blue Gold Program (BGP) describes the three main sets of interventions -infrastructure, institutional and agricultural development-

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26 Poverty focus: Labour Contracting Societies (section Lessons learnt from BGP’s LCS work and the way forward)
withdrawing cash. In the first years of BGP formal LCS training was provided to the LCS groups in line with BGP’s LCS guidelines. However, this often did

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25 Poverty Focus: development of homestead production
For conducting all 226 beef fattening FFS in the BGP polders, with 5650 participants in total, BGP spent a total of BDT 10,626,520. The M&E reports show

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09 The Overall Outcomes and Impacts on the Livelihoods of Coastal Communities in Blue Gold Polders
communities in BGP polders. The chapter includes the changes of demographic composition, the gender of the household head over the time of BGP, the level of

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37 Purpose, fund evolution and management
expenses of ad-hoc inputs from regular BGP staff involved in project appraisal. In addition, the designated lead technical BGP advisors to individual BGIF projects

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Summary of Section C: Water Infrastructure
The Theory of Change for the Blue Gold Program (BGP) describes the three main sets of interventions -infrastructure, institutional and agricultural development-

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22 Lessons for Agricultural Extension in the Coastal Zone
selling: There was a natural bias by BGP experts on the input side of the value chain while many had rather expected a BGP focus on ‘marketing and physical

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Glossary and acronyms
calculations BGP treats fish ghers as another crop; the DAE method excludes fish ghers in its CI calculations. Hence the CI calculated by BGP is higher than

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38 Overview of BGIF Projects
could help communities address their priorities and improve returns under BGP. Some outputs: Training main local stakeholders (WMG members) Exchange visits

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21 The Evolving Approach to the Commercialization of Agriculture
Notes 5 References 6 See more The Program Document of the Blue Gold Program (BGP) considered that ‘the entry point of Blue Gold is the participation of the

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36 Environmental Due Diligence
organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

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Summary of Section G: Project Management
Earlier sections in BGP’s lessons learnt report have consistently demonstrated how the project concept evolved from complementary interventions in community

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Blue Gold Lessons Learnt Wiki
organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

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29 Technical Assistance: Context, Scope, Contractual Arrangements and External Service Contracts
organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

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04 Policy framework, history of interventions and project definition
Projects in the Coastal Zone 3 Project definition 4 References 5 See also BGP combines a substantial investment in water infrastructure with a strong focus

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File library
present a broad range of Blue Gold topics (when searching by keyword), the non-BGP authors (when searching by author), and allow searching by language. The first

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28 Project Management Arrangements
organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

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35 Management Information System
organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

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10 Coastal Infrastructure
Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development

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01 Overview, Purpose and Structure of Report
lessons on how to apply a ‘water management for development’-approach. While BGP’s setting is specific (i.e. 22 predominantly rural polders in the coastal

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12 Survey, Design and Procurement
Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development

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Annex 38.1 BGP Projects

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Section H innovation fund lessons learnt (section Selecting/Monitoring – added-value of appointing BGP technical leads)
Selecting/Monitoring – added-value of appointing BGP technical leads 1.9 Monitoring - Adaptive management 2 Interphases BGIF with BGP and local stakeholders 2.1 Complementing

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Section H innovation fund
funding criteria with BGP objectives, together with assigning BGP technical leads to each project facilitated horizontal learning between BGP and BGIF projects

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11 Investments for Polder Safety and Water Management
Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development

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Section H innovation fund projects
contracts are funded through the BGIF but whilst they were important for BGP objectives, they were not aimed at innovative approaches and are mostly works

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13 Construction: Progress, Modalities and Lessons Learnt
Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development

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Section H innovation fund introduction
and pilot projects were financed, based on un-solicited proposals. The BGP Mid Term Review of 2015 recommended that “the Dutch ‘Aid & Trade’ policy favours

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Accessibility in BGP Wiki
Some pages of the wiki includes tables to organise and display data relevant to the particular section and topic. Some of the tables incorporate a large

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List of policy and regulatory framework for Participatory Water Management (section Other policies and legislation of particular relevance to BGP)
improve governance of water resources. BGP PWM lessons could provide a contribution to this process. To this end, BGP lessons learnt will be discussed in

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Timeline of Key Events
Table 1: Timeline of the evolution of the project concept of BGP Phase Main thrust Documents Formulation 2011 – 2012 WMO to be developed as cooperatives

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Annex 24.2 Outreach of BGP to women: estimate of women who became empowered due to BGP activities
Available for download in PDF format Conclusion: with 185,000 households in BGP polders, women in more than one third (37 %) of all households were empowered

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6 BGP Outcomes and Impact on the Livelihoods of Coastal Communities (section Return to the investment in BGP)
of changes in the livelihoods of BGP beneficiaries. Here, outcomes and impacts are seen as the contribution of the BGP interventions to the overall goal

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Annex 24.1 Selected monitoring data, disaggregated for men and women
UP-BGP workshops on women’s empowerment (1 day) 120 0 120 100 % Data from Chapter 31 Capacity Building Disaggregated data about Blue Gold staff BGP TA

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List of rejected project concepts and proposals
small scale dredging 24/09/2016 JADE Study on sheep rearing feasibility in BGP 25/09/2016 BASD Women Empowerment – Fostering Entrepreneurship of Organic

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Collective Actions for Economic Activities
WMG members who participated in Collective Action for Economic Activities (BGP Tracker till June 2019)

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Acronyms
Development Services BEE Business Enable Environment BGIF Blue Gold Innovation Fund BGP Blue Gold Program BHWDB Bangladesh Hoar and Wetland Development Board BINA

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Section D: BGP intervention: Participatory Water Management
Participatory Water Management (PWM) in BGP comprises a set of activities that helps gear infrastructure development to transforming agriculture in the

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Blue Gold Portal Draft (section Part B - BGP Interventions: Water infrastructure)
context 2.2 Part B - BGP Interventions: Water infrastructure 2.3 Part C - BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management 2.4 Part D - BGP Interventions: Production

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Test (section Evolution of the BGP concept)
work plans 3.6 Evolution of the BGP concept 3.7 The PWM Theory of Change postulated by BGP 4 References 5 Notes 6 See also BGP combines a substantial investment

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5.1 - Policy and regulatory framework for Participatory Water Management (section Other policies and legislation of particular relevance to BGP)
improve governance of water resources. BGP PWM lessons could provide a contribution to this process. To this end, BGP lessons learnt will be discussed in

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Section E: Agricultural Development
The simplified Theory of Change for the Blue Gold Program (BGP) describes the three main sets of interventions -infrastructure, institutional and agricultural

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Main Page
lessons learnt (peri-urban, …) 5.6 Environmental impact assessments B BGP Interventions: WATER INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMARY – WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 6 Introduction

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Dhaka officials and TA- BGP Apr 7-16, 2014 BWDB/TA BWDB & BGP Field staff (XO & CDF) BWDB & BGP Field staff (XO & CDF) BWDB & BGP Field staff (XO & COs)

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Terminology
calculations BGP treats fish ghers as another crop; the DAE method excludes fish ghers in its CI calculations. Hence the CI calculated by BGP is higher than

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expand PWM for development. PARTICIPATORY WATER MANAGEMENT: LESSONS FROM BGP Outcomes • Reduced occurrence of waterlogging, drought and floods enables

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How to edit this wiki
or were stakeholders in creating this publication. In most of the internal BGP publications where there no authors, this field is extensively used to denote

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WMOs: building sustainable partnerships for participatory water management

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and profitability. To strengthen polder economies, the Blue Gold Program (BGP): • rehabilitates embankments, sluices, and khals • develops Water Management

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WMOs: building sustainable partnerships for participatory water management

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Temporary Drafts
Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water

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poverty, and improves livelihoods. CONTEXT Challenges The Blue Gold Program (BGP) is working with poverty-stricken, polder-dweller communities in the coastal

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becoming aware of this and other issues for women in relation to market access, BGP made more effort to also target women with market information, and to promote

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Action win-wins by others on their own beyond BGP’s involvement constitutes systemic change. 14,400 77,200 BGP case study SVC fisheries v5 5 August 2020

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fattening 302 76.2% Pond aquaculture 288 74.6% * 1 FFS has 25 participants BGP 2 pager Women in homestead FFS v2.7, 17 February 2021 Impact of FFS Capacity

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activities. This will only BGP case study feminisation of agriculture v3.7 25 April 2021 Domestic work in BGP gender sessions BGP developed gender flipcharts

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Gold Program (BGP) is working to reduce poverty for all polder dwellers, with special focus on women and poor landless households. In 2016, BGP organized

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information • traditional cultivation mentalities of farmers Blue Gold Program (BGP) interventions The Rudhaghara WMG implemented a pilot CII phase with 16 farmers

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reaping the benefits of cultivation only recently. BGP interventions Following a needs assessment, BGP concluded the need to re-excavate the Amadkhali canal

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Schools Overview Through Farmer Field Schools (FFS), BGP promotes fish The Blue Gold Program (BGP) aims to improve food security and increase incomes of

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poverty Commercialisation v8 16 January 2020 CONTEXT The Blue Gold Program (BGP) works in the polders of Bangladesh. This coastal zone is disaster-prone,

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integral part of BGP to ensure applicants targeted BGP outcomes through their innovations. This would have been supported by the BGP itself, planning activities

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women’s empowerment in the Blue Gold Program (BGP) • To ensure that both men and women benefit from BGP. Gender equality and women’s empowerment are not

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activities for women Results BGP objectives better achieved More women’s empowerment and gender equality Gender in BGP team Gender mainstreaming This

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Earth observation ** Increase in cropping intensity Before BGP Current situation Before BGP Current situation Survey Earth observation Khulna 178

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story Commercialising watermelon farming Context The Blue Gold Program (BGP)’s business development initiatives are for communities that are remote and

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leadership training BGP staff encourage women in WMGs to speak out and take leadership Case study: water heroes v2 16 January 2020 Results of BGP interventions

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Schools: Overview of livestock intervention in Blue Gold Program (BGP) polders BGP trained members of the Water Management Groups (WMGs) on livestock

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