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07 Inclusive Development Approach: Outcomes and Impacts from Homestead Based Production
the main reason to quit is lack of space, especially for landless and marginal land owners, followed by availability of inputs (this being the main reason

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08 The Outcomes and Impact on the Livelihoods of Women (section Main Occupation of women)
on economic activities. Table 8.2: Main occupation of adult women* Only in 2.4% of households is agriculture the main occupation for women, and only in

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05 Outcomes and Impact from Participatory Water Management
purposes) is, as would be expected, the main problem for farmers in the rabi (boro) season. Waterlogging remains the main problem in kharif-1 (aus) and kharif-2

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31 Capacity Building
development, many of the capacity building activities are addressed under the four main interventions of Blue Gold, which are reported in sections C, D, E and F

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17 In-polder water management
strengthen the economies of the polders, the Blue Gold Program rehabilitates main hydraulic infrastructure, capacitates water management organisations and

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Summary of Section F - Responsible Development: Inclusion and Sustainability (section Main lessons learnt)
3.1.2 Increases in homestead production 3.1.3 Cost-benefit analyses 3.1.4 Main lessons learnt 4 Poverty Focus: Labour Contracting Societies 5 Sustainability

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30 Evolution of TA Organisational Arrangements
some 22% of overall TA staff time, equivalent to around 100 staff during the main implementation period (2014-2019). Initially, some 50% of the polder staff

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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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34 Monitoring and evaluation
in land use and yields for the main crops, land tenure arrangements, employment and income generation in the three main seasons (rabi, kharif-1 and kharif-2)

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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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18 The Water Management Partnership
Bangla and in English. The main responsibilities that are spelled out in the agreements are presented in table 18.1. Table 18.1: Main responsibilities for Operation

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26 Poverty focus: Labour Contracting Societies
least 30% of the LCS workers would be women. Poverty alleviation was the main rationale for deploying LCS groups; the Program Document expected that the

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24 Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Satkhira. Horizontal Learning events with a main focus on women’s empowerment: Various HL events were held with the main objective of sharing experiences related

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Summary of Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management
responsibilities of BWDB and WMAs for routine, periodic and emergency maintenance. The main purpose of the agreements is to sustain the benefits arising from bringing

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39 BGIF Lessons Learnt
This chapter aims to capture the main lessons learnt during the period when the Innovation Fund was most active, from 2015 to 2020. Although we have structured

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File library
written from the perspective of the main stakeholders Videos - a small number of high quality videos cover the main features of Blue Gold: participatory

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28 Project Management Arrangements
focus is on increasing agricultural production and empowering WMGs to be the main drivers of development, rather than on the traditional focus on infrastructure

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09 The Overall Outcomes and Impacts on the Livelihoods of Coastal Communities in Blue Gold Polders
activities as their main occupation. Males from medium and large farm households are more likely to take agricultural activities as the main occupation, while

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Blue Gold Lessons Learnt Wiki
March 2013 to December 2021. Blue Gold has rehabilitated and improved the main water infrastructure in 22 coastal polders in south-west Bangladesh and built

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Glossary and acronyms
buying in source markets and selling in destination markets, and exerts the main influence on price earned by farmers. BGIF Blue Gold Innovation Fund BGP

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27 Sustainability
been adequately rehabilitated so that the primary flood defences and the main drainage networks are ready to deal with flood and rainfall extremes that

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Summary and Introduction of Section B: Development Outcomes
under ghers has more than doubled since the start of BGP. There are three main categories of land use in the BGP area – paddy, non-rice crops and fish produced

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03 Social, Physical and Environmental Context
of the polder area. The siltation of the Betna and Morichap river is the main reason for such drainage congestion. Water logging at the north and middle

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19 Operationalisation of the PWM concept
cooperatives, as driver for economic development, and the productive sector as the main basis for the economic development envisaged. For some stakeholders, the

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21 The Evolving Approach to the Commercialization of Agriculture
Finally, it set out to harmonise a value chain approach with the current main stance of providing extension, namely by FFS. The development of a Market

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23 Outreach and Outcomes of Commercialisation Interventions
just over half of cultivable land to 85% in this season. Prior to BGP, the main non-rice crop used to be keshari, a local pulse crop, which had almost disappeared

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Summary of Section A: Background and context
development: complementing rehabilitation works on embankments, sluices and main drainage channels with small-scale works within the polders’ internal water

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38 Overview of BGIF Projects
embankment, to reduce the risk of loss of lives and crops; maintenance of main khals to remove water from the fields, or to store water for supplementary

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35 Management Information System
Self-assessment of WMG performance 12 Notes 13 References 14 See more The original main purpose of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in Blue Gold was to monitor and

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01 Overview, Purpose and Structure of Report
adopted in which water safety is improved by repair and rehabilitation of main polder-level water management infrastructure, and water productivity and

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Frequently Asked Questions
March 2013 to December 2021. Blue Gold has rehabilitated and improved the main water infrastructure in 22 coastal polders in south-west Bangladesh and built

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06 Outcomes and Impact from Agricultural Development
In the kharif-1 (early monsoon) season fish ghers were, and still are, the main land use in Khulna, with the area now significantly increased. This, along

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Executive summary: a call for action
development and water security already: Dhaka City – being the country’s main economic hub – is protected against severe floods, whereas lower levels of

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10 Coastal Infrastructure
embankments alongside these rivers before adequate knowledge had been gathered. A main concern was that sedimentation between embankments would lead to the rising

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11 Investments for Polder Safety and Water Management
obstructions in primary khals) was an important objective of the extension. A main aim of the September 2020 re-adjustment was to make transfers (of from 20%

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25 Poverty Focus: development of homestead production
increased demand for wage labour, as for many of them such wage labour is a main income source. Roughly the upper half of this group (i.e. 15% of the total

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16 Women’s participation in water management
itself to achieve the 30% quota for women in WMO executive committees. The main challenge, however, would be ensuring the active and meaningful participation

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Summary of Section G: Project Management
the changes in the project concept. While the two separate plans for the main implementing agencies existed throughout the project duration; the TA team

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13 Construction: Progress, Modalities and Lessons Learnt
fifteen main work items defined in RDPP in Table 12.1 as well as to BWDB's Mechanical Engineering (ME) Division. For each of the fifteen main RDPP work

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04 Policy framework, history of interventions and project definition
influence of the Government of the Netherlands (GoN) – which has been the main or co-funder of 14 of the 21 projects. The Blue Gold Program has been defined

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37 Purpose, fund evolution and management
target SMEs and entrepreneurs from the Netherlands. The campaign had three main objectives: Create awareness amongst Dutch entrepreneurs in both the agriculture

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32 Agricultural Extension Methods and Communication
increased to 7,000 issues: Barta provided four pages in colour on (i) recent main events within the BGP program (e.g. DAE mela, agreement signing ceremonies

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02 Institutional Setting
technical assistance. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) is the main agency of the Ministry for implementing projects aimed at optimising agricultural

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22 Lessons for Agricultural Extension in the Coastal Zone
resource intensive methodologies were pursued, for example, organising the main messages around a sufficiently large demonstration, organised by DAE or by

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Section H innovation fund
require additional reimbursements from the Innovation Fund. Main article: BGIF Lessons Learnt. The main lessons learnt cover 4 years of running the Innovation

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Section H innovation fund lessons learnt
see Section H - Innovation Fund. This article seeks to capture some of the main lessons learnt during the 4 years of running the Innovation Fund. They have

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Section H innovation fund projects
embankment, to reduce the risk of loss of lives and crops; maintenance of main khals to remove water from the fields, or to store water for supplementary

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List of water resources management projects
second SSFCDI project was funded jointly by the World Bank and CIDA. The main objectives of the project were to: (i) increase agricultural production and

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