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Southwest
Rural Development Project
This project addressed development issues in one of most important
and densely populated regions in rural Bangladesh. It worked to:
- increase agricultural production (particularly food production)
by improving irrigation and other essential production inputs
- strengthen cooperative (worker-buyer/government) relationships
governing the lives and livelihoods of rural poor people
- encourage the landless to participate in these cooperatives and
to develop and support activities designed specifically to benefit
them
During the course of the project, credit was provided to more than
10,500 poor people, 53 per cent of them women. The project demonstrated
that providing credit (together with skills training) to rural poor
people is a better investment than providing similar credit to large
farmers.
Source: IFAD
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| Contact information |
Mr Nigel Brett
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592516
Fax: +39 0654593516
n.brett@ifad.org |
| Facts and figures |
Total cost: US$30.5 million
IFAD loan:
US$23.0 million
Duration: 1982-1990
Geographical
area: region 125 km south of Dhaka
Directly benefiting:
247,000 households
Status: closed |
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