Livelihoods Monitoring Project (Bangldesh)

Livelihoods Monitoring Project (LMP)
Bangladesh

Partners

Start date
31/12/1994

End date
31/03/2004

Commitment (£)
1,250,000

CARE International Bangladesh

DFID Bangladesh

Collaborators

Contacts

Dr. Mehrul Islam, Livelihood Coordinator - LMP, mehrul@carebangladesh.org

Sarah Gillingham, Livelihood Advisor - LMP, RLP sarah@carebangladesh.org

Purpose

LMP is a research project to identify lessons about livelihood issues, which can be incorporated into ongoing development initiatives by DFID and CARE in Bangladesh and elsewhere. The more immediate purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of the project interventions of SHABGE and GOINTERFISH and that this learning are applied by DFID and CARE for the benefit of poor people in rural Bangladesh.

				Lessons
				Debt and Vulnerability in Northwest Bangladesh CARE Bangladesh, May 2005 Findings of a thematic study to assess the incidence and dynamics of debt and to explore the impacts of debt on household livelihood systems in five districts of Northwest Bangladesh. PDF
				Debt and Vulnerability in Northwest and Southeast Bangladesh: A Cross-Regional Comparison CARE Bangladesh, May 2005 Findings of a thematic study to explore the patterns of use of credit from both formal and informal lenders in the Northwest and Southeast regions of Bangladesh. PDF
				Measuring Livelihood Impacts: A Review of Livelihoods Indicators CARE Bangladesh March 2004. Systematic documentation of the process involved in generating livelihood indicators and useful insights on the determinants of livelihood changes. PDF
				Southeast Rural Livelihoods Baseline Report-2003. Prepared for CARE Bangladesh By TANGO International, Inc. September 2003. PDF UPDATED
				The North West Institutional Analysis Brigitta Bode and Mick Howes September 2002. A compelling depiction of the interconnected nature of formal and informal institutions, showing how power and resources are concentrated in the hands of key individuals, families and institutions and graphically demonstrating the complexity of programming required to change the status quo PDF UPDATED
				Survey findings from the North West Baseline 2002 - report on a survey which aimed to quantify changes in livelihoods among LMP participants, and to understand the causes of these livelihood changes - Part I (PDF) Part II (PDF)

				Livelihood Monitoring Project Case Study by Karen Westley and Dewan Arif Rashid WORD
				A Year of Livelihoods Monitoring Word (1.8Mb) / PDF
				Synthesis of Livelihood Headlines Word no date
				Livelihood Headlines from the North West Baseline Word December 2001.

Purpose

Lessons

Use of SL Approaches

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Use of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches

The Livelihood Monitoring Project (LMP) is a recent initiative of CARE/DFID to measure the impact of two CARE Bangladesh projects SHABGE (Strengthening Household Access to Bari Gardening) and GOINTERFISH (Greater Opportunities for Integrated Rice Fish) working in the Northwest and Southeast regions of Bangladesh. These projects cover almost a quarter of the country and work with over 722,000 poor and vulnerable men and women. The projects are focussed on improving household-level production systems: homestead vegetable production (SHABGE) and integrated rice-fish production (GOINTERFISH).

The project has used a Sustainable Livelihoods Framework for the design of indicators of impact.

	Other Agriculture Projects:
	Soil Fertility Management and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: New Approaches to the Policy Process - Phase 1 (Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
	Decentralised Livestock Services Programme (DELIVERI) (Indonesia)
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Livelihoods Connect welcomes details of how sustainable livelihoods approaches are being used by your project. Simply complete the Sustainable Livelihoods Project Summary Form and send it as an email attachment to:

livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk.