Introduction :

Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP) was implemented from July 1998 to June 2003 at the cost of $42 million as per appraisal with the Assistance of Danida and ADB. The numbers of Beneficiaries were 3,60,000 of 89 upazillas in 17 Districts of Northwest region of Bangladesh. After Project implementation, Nutritional status, Literacy rate and Employment of women were increased. Following the success of Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP) would have been taken into consideration to take up Second Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP-II). Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to make a loan to Government of Bangladesh (GoB) for the project ‘Second Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP-II)’ on 19 December 2003 with an amount of SDR 13,969,000 (US$ 20 million equivalent).

ADB Loan No. : 2070-BAN (SF)
Project Title :Second Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP-II) Borrowers Name : People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Executing Agency’s : Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) and
Department of Livestock Services (DLS).
Implementing Agency’s : Partner Organizations of PKSF.
Loan Effectiveness Declared: 30 June, 2004.
Loan Closing Date : 30 June, 2010.

Project Goal :

The overall goal of the Projects is poverty reduction in the rural areas. It will seek to improve the living standards of the population, especially of women and households headed by women with a view to reduce gender disparity in economic activities.

Project Objectives :

The project aims to reduce rural poverty by-

1. Increasing Income Generating Activities and employment from livestock related enterprises suitable for the landless household and household headed by women.

2. Building individual and community capacity to manage enterprises.

3. Providing Microfinance for income generating activities including livestock enterprises, small business and marketing initiatives, provide support for livestock inputs supply services and employment opportunities in the private sectors. And

4. The project will specifically target the ultra poor to support their asset development and social mobilization.

5. Capacity building of the DLS will also be provided.

Project Area

The project covers 157 Upazillas including existing 89 Upazilla of Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP) and 68 as new Upazillas in 20 districts (all 16 districts of Rajshahi Division with 122 upazillas and 4 districts i.e. Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Sherpur and Netrakona with 35 upazillas in Dhaka Division) in Northwest and North Central region of Bangladesh. A total of 660,000 beneficiaries i.e. 360,000 from Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP) and 300,000 from new project area will be benefited from the project.

Participating NGOs :

15 NGOs have been selected for implementation of the project. Participating NGOs are :

The project will be operational by a group of established nongovernmental organizations with operational networks in the project area. The list of selected districts, upazillas and NGOs are given below :

Financing plan : Shown in the Table below ($ million) :

NGOs = Non Government Organizations
PKSF = Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation

Description of the Project

The Project comprises of the following components :

Part-I : Community Development.

Part-I : (a) Community Mobilization :

Support the formation and strengthening of approximately 26,000 community associations. Provide, through the participating NGOs, on-site technical support and training to farmer groups to develop awareness on different income generating activity, marketing and enterprise opportunities, improve farmer’s capability to use microfinance and other input services effectively. Develop and implement a range of training programs in dairy and livestock farming, credit/agribusiness management, and related subjects for, among others, dairy farmers, live animal market management committees, butchers, meat shop owners, farmer group leaders and members, livestock traders, milk venders and animal health drug suppliers etc.

Part-I : (b) Community Livestock Extension :

Provide livestock service centers (LSCs) to support basic animal health, Disease Diagnosis and control, and production services at the union council level develop and train community extension workers (CEWs) to work from the livestock service
centers and to provide on-demand livestock extension services.

A. forecasted livestock enterprises per upazilla, beneficiary target & its characteristics:

· The term period of loan- One year
· Numbers specified are indicative, not prescriptive.

Training

A. To enhance the PO’s capacity building, project provides the following staff training:

B. Beneficiaries training has also been primarily scheduled as per following :

Part-II : Livestock Enterprise Development.

Part-II : (a) Livestock Enterprises :

This sub-component will provide, through participating NGOs, microfinance for the development of livestock enterprises about 300,000 households. The project will reach approximately 660000 poor people especially the destitute women. Provide, through DLS, supporting institutional, technical and training services to participating NGOs. PKSF will implement a pilot program to assist approximately 5,000 ultra poor households to develop income-generating activities.

Part-II : (b) Marketing & Small Business Development :

Provide, through participating NGOs, credit for small-scale peri-urban dairy- processors and retailers, livestock traders, and other supply enterprises. Provide, through PKSF and LGED, livestock markets and slaughter slabs. Conduct marketing promotion, and a consumer awareness program on meat hygiene.

Part-II : (c) Innovation and Applied Research :

Under the project, this sub-component will execute applied research and initial capital for innovations that would directly assist small livestock farmers to increase their income earning and marketing opportunities. It will explore development opportunities for new poultry breeds that could raise productivity levels in the village environment and new management systems that could better use of feed and labor resources. This will investigate the improvement of cattle breed, goat breed, systems for improved feed storage and nutrient enhancement.

Part-III : Capacity building for the Department of Livestock Services :

Under this component, the project provides institutional, capacity building, scholarship, and training services to DLS. Construct and upgrade approximately 27 sub-district level livestock development centers. Provide, policy support to DLS, particularly in the area of phasing out of subsides and commercialization of livestock activities. The DLS monitoring and evaluation cell will also be strengthened.

Part-IV : Project Services

Part-IV : (a) Project Management :

The project will provide financial support for setting up and operations of the Project Management Unit to be situated at Rangpur & Project Liaison Unit at PKSF Bhaban, Dhaka including provide training to the Project staff. The project will also provide consulting services for Project implementation and supervision. A Project Steering Committee will be established to oversee the implementation of the project. An Implementation Coordination Committee will be established to guide the PMU on a regular basis. PKSF, in cooperation with DLS, will establish a field level PMU based in Rangpur staffed by independently recruited subject matter specialists and headed by a project director.

Part-IV : (b) Implementation :

In order to enhance the capacity, the Project provides motorcycles, bi-cycles, equipment and furniture for selected participating NGOs for newly established 46 area offices and apart from this, project will finance the operations and staffing costs for 46 newly established Area Offices and 60 transferred area offices of selected participating NGOs. The implementing agencies provide training programs under the community development component and the microfinance activities in the livestock enterprise development component to ensure sustainable development in the sub sector. NGOs will deliver and manage the credit activities in the marketing and small business development subcomponent.

ADB= Asian Development Bank, DLS=Department of Livestock Services,
NGO= Nongovernmental Organization, PKSF= Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation

Gender in PKSF intervention :

Second Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP-II) has 6,60,000 beneficiaries out of which more than 95% are women. They are landless poor and marginal farmers headed by women. They have been targeted leadership development, legal awarness, group solidarity and identification and accessing community resources. NGOs have been selected in the Project those have sort of gender related activity. For social mobilization, women have been trained up as Community Extension Workers (CEWs) and other enterprises of 20 livestock oriented packges. Such as Poultry Worker, Chick rearer, Duckling rearer, Pullet rearer, Model breeder, Mini hatchary management, Feed seller, Egg seller, Commercial layer, Commercial broiler, Goat/Sheep/Pig/ Buck rearer, Beef fattening, Cow rearing, Heifer rearing, Fodder cultivation, Milk prosseccing /chilling etc. The women are provided Microcredit as per enterprises.

The women are provided training enterprises management and technology associated in operating the enterprise. Venue and time schedule of a meeting has been arranged suitable for women. Marketing information and marketing linkage have been provided to women entrepreneurs for their specific needs.

The selections of beneficiaries for ultra poor program have been selected from female-headed family.

In project services recruitment has been made maintaining gender equity. Training of Trainers (TOT) program for women has been selected women trainers.

The elected female union parishad members (FUPM) have been involved in all possible project activities so that they can bridge the gaps between the project participants and the public offices.

Project Outputs

The following qualitative outputs may be achieved

1. 660,000 beneficiaries will be skilled on rearing of livestock and poultry.
2. Nutritional status will be improved in the project area.
3. NGOs staffs will be developed with livestock related skill ness.
4. Sustainable savings and credit programs will be developed.
5. 26,000 sustainable community based organizations will be developed.
6. 52, 000 leadership farmer will be developed.
7. Milk, egg and meat production will be increased.
8. Employment opportunity will be created.
9. Dissemination of livestock and poultry rearing technologies to poor farmers of project area to increase production.
10. Creation of facilities for easily/readily available disease diagnosis and control.

Implementation Progress

Project Steering Committee (PSC), Implementation Coordination Committee (ICC), Establishment of Project Liaison Unit (PLU) at PKSF Bhaban, Dhaka and Project Management Unit (PMU) at Rangpur, Recruitment of Project Manager (PM), Project Director (PD), Deputy Project Director (DPD) and most of the other project staffs, Opening of Imprest Account in Bangladesh Bank and Project Operating Account in Sonali Bank (Commercial Bank) have been accomplished.

Besides, a total of 15 NGOs/POs have already been selected, to implement project activities.

Two workshops were launched for exchange of ideas among POs and other stakeholders and implementation strategy for PLDP-II. NGOs/POs have already established Area Offices (AOs) and recruited project staff as per target.

POs have started baseline Survey with the inclusion of basic data on livestock in the format supplied in the PLDP-II Start-Up Workshop held on 8-9 December 2004. The survey will be continuing.

Enrollment of beneficiaries and Training program of NGOs staffs are continuing. Overall physical progress for the project has reached 54% against financial progress of 68% average during elapsed time of 43.8%.