Project
Kawra Women's Livelihood Development Project (stage 2)
Programme Goal:To improve the livelihoods of extremely poorrural women fromthe Kawra pig-rearing community by improving their capacity to run their own businesses
Sector Focus:Livelihoods
Status:Completed
Duration:2011-14
Donor:BangladeshNGO Foundation (BDT650,000)
Number of beneficiaries:6,000 (direct 1,500,indirect 4,500)
Working area:Batiaghata and Dumuria(in Khulna district)
Activities:
- conducting a survey to select appropriate geographical locations and target groups;
- providing training on hygienic and profitable pig rearing;
- supplying pigs to participants, free of cost;
- lobbying and advocating the adoption of a legal infrastructure for pig rearing;
- advocacy onestablishing a pig veterinary hospital; and
- setting up model pig farms to demonstrate good practice.
- sensitization on hygienic pig farming
- adaptation strategies on changing climate
- awareness on social issues to stop early marriage
