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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

production via social media channels, like BGP Facebook group but also external lines like Water-Channel. BGP was successful getting broadcasting space

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

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

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

the project’s start evolved during the seven-year implementation period. BGP postulates that ‘water management for development’- the combining of water

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

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

benefits created by BGP. In practice this meant that women / women farmers, landless and smallholder farmers were also explicitly targeted by BGP interventions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

Earlier sections in BGP’s lessons learnt report have consistently demonstrated how the project concept evolved from complementary interventions in community

organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

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

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

organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

organisations Horizontal Learning – the approach in BGP Horizontal Learning – An assessment of BGP’s experience

Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development

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

Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development

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

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

Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development

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

Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water Management Section E: Agricultural Development

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Section D: BGP Interventions: Participatory Water

(As modified at the end of 2018 and issued by BGP’s Project Coordinating Director in 2019) Before signing of LCS contract between Executive Engineer and

Training Program on BGP Unified Approach 3 4 Patuakhali (2 batch) & Khulna (2 batch) Dec 6-8, 18-20, 21-2, 2016 & Jan 3-5, 2017 TA BGP Field staff (CDF)

19-Dec-13 DLS/TA DAE and BGP Expert 56 2 58 C-3 Development of Community Poultry Worker (CPW) to address vaccination issue at BGP area (Report, Curriculum)

& Dhaka & SDA Patuakhali Mar 10, 2014 (Dhaka), May 20 2014 (Pat) BGP Experts BWDB & BGP Consultant 48 14 62 B-6 Construction Monitoring & Quality Control

Khulna BGP Training Room Dec 17-18 & 20-21 2017 mPower BWDB, DAE & TA 85 12 97 J-9 ToT on WMO Health Dashboard App 2 2 Ava Center, Khulna & BGP Training

BWDB & BGP Field staff (XO & CDF) 12 11 23 F-2 Refresher Training on Improved Water Management 3 2 Satkhira & Kuakata May 5-12 2015 TA BWDB & BGP Field

finalization 1 2 Khulna-Patuakhali Jun-16 TA DAE, Field and Dhaka officials and TA- BGP 74 4 78 Sub Total 945 145 1,090

Value Chain Development along with MFS session facilitation (02 week) 10 1 BGP Training Room, Khulna Dec 1-11, 2014 TA Community Organizers 18 2 20 D-4 ToT