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34 Monitoring and evaluation
In the ToC, this link is explored and provides an important step towards understanding the processes involved.’ Although the benefits of the ToC and the

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30 Evolution of TA Organisational Arrangements
gained during the development of a ‘Theory of Change’ (ToC) in 2016. The 2016 Theory of Change (ToC) describes five main development pathways that comprise

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Summary of Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management
activities listed above, this section also looks at how BGP operationalised the PWM concept and it concludes with a section on a way forward for participatory

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Glossary and acronyms
depth 180-300 cm or more LRP Land Reclamation Project LV low value crop(s) M/F Male / Female M&E Monitoring and Evaluation maintenance actions taken to prevent

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31 Capacity Building
interventions of Blue Gold, which are reported in sections C, D, E and F. Since the perspective of Section G is project management, this chapter on capacity

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Summary of Section C: Water Infrastructure
within the polder. Later sections cover water management partnerships (Section D), commercialisation of agriculture (Section E) and sustainability and

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02 Institutional Setting
Netherlands and Bangladesh". The section is based inter alia on Kingdom of Netherlands website. "কৃষি মন্ত্রণালয়". The section reflects information found on

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Blue Gold Lessons Learnt Wiki (section Section F: Responsible Development: Inclusion and Sustainability)
Call for Action 2.2 Section A: Background and context 2.3 Section B: Development Outcomes 2.4 Section C: Water Infrastructure 2.5 Section D: Participatory

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28 Project Management Arrangements
Work Plans 8 Polder Development Plans 9 Progress Reports 10 See more This section of the report aims to set out the arrangements for implementing the Blue

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36 Environmental Due Diligence
P31-Part, 43/1A, 43/2A, 43/2B, 43/2D, 43/2E and 43/2F P27/1 and P27/2, P28/1 and P28/2, P34/2, P55/2A, P55/2C, 25, 47/3, 47/4

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35 Management Information System
to participatory monitoring and eventually to self-assessment. The final sections of this chapter account for the development of a polder dashboard to provide

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04 Policy framework, history of interventions and project definition
it shares with several other donor-funded water sector projects – this section provides an overview of the policy, legal and regulatory provisions, which

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01 Overview, Purpose and Structure of Report
focusing mainly on the new polders. This report is laid out in eight sections (Sections A to H), as described in Table 1.2.

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03 Social, Physical and Environmental Context
areas in both P47/3 and P47/4 being served by irrigation facilities. This section describes the social context of the livelihood of coastal Bangladesh. To

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13 Construction: Progress, Modalities and Lessons Learnt
credit facilities as STD prescribed form is provided in Section 7 (General Specifications). (f) Satisfactory resolution of all claims, arbitrations or

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

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05 Outcomes and Impact from Participatory Water Management (section (c) Patuakhali)
drained out. In addition, fish ghers can obstruct the drainage of crop land. Section D (chapters 14 – 20) of this BGP’s lessons learnt report focuses on Participatory

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25 Poverty Focus: development of homestead production (section Market orientation (13,600 FFS participants (C11-C15); 92% women famers))
its interventions by taking notice of their differing requirements. In Section E the focus was on the first category of households and Blue Gold interventions

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29 Technical Assistance: Context, Scope, Contractual Arrangements and External Service Contracts
5 Monitoring, Reflection and Learning 3.6 Miscellaneous 4 See more This section of the report sets out to provide the context within which the EKN-funded

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Summary of Section F - Responsible Development: Inclusion and Sustainability
elements in BGP’s Theory of Change presented as transversal aspects in figure F.1 to contribute to more sustainable and fair results. The first element is

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10 Coastal Infrastructure
to be the driving force for change. This section supplements the discussion under ‘Previous History’ in Section A Chapter 4 The present Bangladesh Water

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11 Investments for Polder Safety and Water Management
and to comment on lessons learnt in designing future projects. The final section of the chapter emphasises the importance of budgeting for emergency repairs

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19 Operationalisation of the PWM concept
in the constitution of Water Management Organisations was removed. See Section 5.1 Chief Water Management BWDB, In reference to formation of Water Management

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16 Women’s participation in water management
women’s participation were: Awareness creation for all community members (M/F) on why participatory water management is important. Motivating that also women

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14 Consultation and participation in planning
attributed second priority in the water resources management section, while the environmental section emphasises the benefits of re-excavation of khals for drainage

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06 Outcomes and Impact from Agricultural Development (section (c) Fresh water ghers)
cost, mainly harvesting and marketing the increased volume of production. Section E (chapters 21, 22 and 23) of this Final Report provides more information

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Summary of Section E: Agricultural Development
agricultural development- as the core elements of Blue Gold’s approach. This section E focuses on BGP’s agricultural development interventions which sought to

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Acronyms
Project T&C Training & Communications TA Technical Assistance T-Aman Transplanted Aman Rice TL Team Leader TNA Training Needs Assessment ToC Theory of

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27 Sustainability
that are more inclusive and gender-responsive, and more sustainable. This section presents how BGP enhanced inclusiveness and sustainability and reviews the

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22 Lessons for Agricultural Extension in the Coastal Zone
small-scale water infrastructure investment program (see section D). From the previous section it should be clear that technology transfer messages must

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Summary of Section H: Innovation Fund
Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development Section F: Responsible Development:

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Summary of Section A: Background and context
This section provides background and context for lessons learnt during the Blue Gold Program by providing a description of the project, its ambitions,

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38 Overview of BGIF Projects
of the water management fund or the productive sector fund. In this sub-section we look at which projects were funded by these two funding windows and what

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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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39 BGIF Lessons Learnt
contract addenda, a middle way is sought in which the adjustments proposed by f the implementing teams are captured and formalised through a process which

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Summary and Introduction of Section B: Development Outcomes (section Final Report Section B[Notes 1])
This section presents the outcomes and impacts of the BGP interventions based on independently collected survey data. In other words, this section assesses

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33 Horizontal learning
Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development Section F: Responsible Development:

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20 Way forward
Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development Section F: Responsible Development:

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21 The Evolving Approach to the Commercialization of Agriculture
security on the basis of homestead production described in chapter 25 of Section F. Both strategies are based upon the FFS approach and both include market

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26 Poverty focus: Labour Contracting Societies
also to draw conclusions for LCS work in the future, see the below section. This section provides the findings of a study on LCSs commissioned by Blue Gold

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37 Purpose, fund evolution and management
original allocation of €4.4 million (ref Program Document, August 2012 - Section 5.2.5 pp 60/61) was made for “services providers under the Water Innovation

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32 Agricultural Extension Methods and Communication
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 a number of videos and

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15 WMO capacity building
on-the-job, with explanations culminating in the making of a model cross-section of the earthwork to be implemented. The Gender and Leadership Development

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24 Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
international gender expert. The Inception Report of Blue Gold included a section on gender as part of the cross-cutting themes, whereas gender concerns were

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08 The Outcomes and Impact on the Livelihoods of Women
doubling since the start of BGP, while male wages have only gone up by 50%. Section B Introduction and Summary provides an overview of the studies conducted

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17 In-polder water management
interventions in primary infrastructure (see Section C) and from involvement and capacity building of WMOs (see Section D Chapters 14 and 15) which in turn provides

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18 The Water Management Partnership
members. When the purchase of inputs was coordinated across a WMG or a sub-section thereof, this led to a stronger relationship with market partners; where

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23 Outreach and Outcomes of Commercialisation Interventions
shifts across the polders on the basis of the WMG surveys, see also Section B. This section presents the direct qualitative outcomes of the commercialisation

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07 Inclusive Development Approach: Outcomes and Impacts from Homestead Based Production
positive about paddy production, but less enthusiastic about expanding fish. Section B Introduction and Summary provides an overview of the studies conducted

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