Ethnic Community Development Organization (ECo-Development): Economic Empowerment of Jumiya people through Medicinal Plant Cultivation
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Project Area
Bandarban district of Chittagong Division
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Target
750 Beneficiary Households (BHHs)
Years to graduate
3 years
Budget and Cost per BHH
The total budget is BDT 33,388,541
cost per BHH is BDT 44,518
of which direct delivery cost per BHH is BDT 21,675
Key Aspects
- Exclusively targets Jumiya extreme poor in remote regions of Bandarban district
- Assists beneficiary households to secure 1 acre of land from tribal leadership
- Provides training, technical and financial support in the cultivation of medicinal plant gardens
- BHHs will cultivate long term, high value, medicinal crops including bashok, kalomange, orsaghada and simul
- Medicinal plant cultivation will be alongside vegetable gardening and poultry rearing to provide short term livelihoods prior to harvest, and contribute to consumption and improving nutritional status
- BHHs to be organised into ‘network’, pooling produce to strengthen their market position and access
Outputs
- Output 1: Commercial cultivation of medicinal plants introduced among the Jumiyas as an alternative profitable means of their livelihood.
- Output 2: Sustainable local and national market of medicinal plants established.
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