AID Comilla

Aid Comilla: The Alternative Livelihoods Options (ALO) Project

Project Area
Parsuram Upazila, Feni
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Target
1,500 Beneficiary Households (BHH)

Years to Graduate
3 years

Budget (BDT)
Total budget BDT 27,999,508
Cost per BHH 15,135
direct delivery cost per BHH is 9,028.

Key Aspects

• Initiate grant stipends, heifer cattle transfer and artificial insemination of cattle;
• Provide training on the effective management of livestock and homestead gardening;
• Capacity enhancement for Para-vets (vaccinators) chosen by natural leaders;
• Awareness raising of local markets with linkages to high price zones (identified through the marketing/IGA groups established by the project);
• Awareness building on health, hygiene and nutrition practices with technical support and monitoring;
• Activating Disaster Management Committees (part of the Union Parisad tier of local government) to develop local coping mechanisms, risk and resource mapping;
• Capacity enhancement for disaster preparedness and coping mechanisms.

Outputs

• Knowledge on improved livestock management and kitchen gardening disseminated to 1,850 extreme poor households and 15 Para-vets developed;
• Heifers conditionally transferred to 750 target households with technical support;
• Target households to form marketing groups and build bargaining capacity;
• Communities facilitated to improve capacity for disaster preparedness, response and mitigation.

Read AID Comilla’s Lesson Learning Report

See the works of SHIREE funded Alo project of Aid-Comilla on flickr