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Study on Profitability and Marketing of IGA of Ultra-Poor under IFSUP Final Report Contrast between Supported group and control group (non supported) Criteria Experimental Group Control Group Income Able utilize productive resources and its profits Increase profits Tk.500 to 45,000/per beneficiaries Unreadable fate and depends on local large farmers Awareness Aware about their livelihoods Vulnerable to maintain family Social status Socially empowered, able to talk with others and keep contribution for their opinion Not required to advance labor sale Remain same as before selling labor before the season (advance sale) Employment Generate self employment Still waiting for other employer Education Ability to send children to the school Can not Skill Received skill development No such training received yer development training Negotiation Gradually increasing market Fragile in negotiation skill negotiation skills Market information Share market information Not aware of market information Network Have good network with other community members Scattered and individual MATRIX 13
Study on Profitability and Marketing of IGA of Ultra-Poor under IFSUP Final Report 4. MAJOR FINDINGS 4.1 Project Implementation Chapter -4 The project begun to implementation in January 2007 and is going to be end in December, 2009 with a life span of 3 years. PNGO staffs were trained on steps and strategies of people’s organization. Baseline survey was conducted on 1000 beneficiaries among them 800 beneficiary and 200 kept as control group for each upazila of the targeted project areas. Beneficiaries of poverty category 2 &3 were identified, selected, facilitated and trained to form groups and a total of 297 women groups were thus formed with 10-20 women in a group ranging from 18-50 years of age. Group 1 - Disabled and group 4- above 10 decimal lands were excluded. Each family was assisted to develop a family development plan based on which assets were transferred to beneficiary on an average value of Tk.11800 per beneficiary. A wide range of IGAs were identified (51) (Table 6) but assets were transferred for 15 IGAs (Table 7) on the basis of beneficiaries’ choices. All beneficiaries were imparted skill training on relevant IGAs which helped increased their technical capacity reducing the risk of failures. After skill training assets were transferred. About 69% of the assets were transferred for cattle rearing followed by cultivation of paddy (13%) on leased land at the initial stage of the project. Others such as rickshaw, van, tea shops, are very much marginal having little potential in rural settings. There is a purchase/sales committee representing different stakeholders. About 90% beneficiaries are reported to make profit ranging from Tk. 2000 to 45000 per assets. Self Evaluation Report of Project, December 2008 found that about 10% beneficiaries could not make any profit while rest of the beneficiaries made profit from 3000 to 28,000 as an additional income (page 8). Along the main assets within the limits of value (Tk. 11,800) small scale supplementary IGAs, such as ducks and poultries were offered to increase income through product diversification. Four assets transfer cycles is continuing. It is reported that during project period 59 cattle, 73 pigs, 202 goats 1534 chicken/ducks and 834 BAU/Apple kul trees died due to different disease. One rickshaw was stolen. These losses were mitigated by disbursement of Tk. 172,985 from Security Fund of the project. 4.2 Training for the Beneficiaries Besides the skill developments training on IGA (cattle, poultry rearing, home gardening, etc) beneficiaries were provided extensive training on leadership development, disaster management, para-veterinary training, management and social awareness and administration and financial management for federation representatives to improve the technical skills and reduce the risks. MATRIX 14
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