IDE

International Development Enterprise (IDE): Women Onset Technologies for Sustainable Homestead Agriculture in Bangladesh (WOTSHAB)

Project Area
Barisal district
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Target
1,000 Beneficiary Households (BHHs)

Years to graduate
3 years

Budget and Cost per BHH
The total budget is BDT 36,574,420
cost per BHH is BDT 36,574
of which direct delivery cost per BHH is BDT 19,192

Key Aspects

• Targets extreme poor women including widows, abandoned women and those with a large number of children
• Responds to local concerns of increased ground salinity, climate change impacts and lack of available land for cultivation by supporting BHHs to develop above-ground homestead cultivation including rooftop farming and hanging jute net platforms for cultivation.
• Conditional cash transfers designed to satisfy immediate needs with subsequent transfers intended to finance the development of IGAs including conventional cropping, bamboo cultivation and small scale livestock initiatives
• Delivers skills transfer and training programmes accompanied by cash stipends to cover loss of earnings during attendance
• Development and roll out of support network created by grouping beneficiaries

Outputs

• Output 1: Above ground homestead production technology is disseminated to target HHs
• Output 2: Target HHs are provided with the resources for undertaking new production techniques (IGAs)
• Output 3: Extreme poor women are supported to understand the commercial viability of above ground homestead production
• Output 4: Extreme poor women are supported to form group-based support networks

See the works of SHIREE funded WOTSHAB project of IDE on flickr