Project Proposal on Poverty Reduction

Project Proposal on Poverty Reduction

"Poverty reduction through pro-active, participatory, income-

generating involvement of

Rural youth in goat rearing"

1. Name of the project: Income generation through goat rearing.

2. Implementing organisation: Lemon grass

3. Objectives of the project:

I) Income generation of the distressed women and land less farmers,

II) Establishment of small scale goat rearing enterprise,

III) Raise nutritional status through goat rearing and increase supply

of animal protein,

IV) Develop saving habit of the beneficiaries,

V) Reduce poverty.

4. Project description:

Bangladesh is an agro-based country, more than 80% people live in

villages. They are mostly poor. Most of the people have only

homestead. They have only agricultural labour to invest. These people

spend most of the time in a year without getting any work. As a

result, during these periods they do not have any scope of earning.

50% of total population in this country are women. They are less

educated, unskilled and do not have any access to income generating

activities. They get less food; their caloric intake is 29% lower than

that of male. The effect of extreme poverty falls most severely upon

them and their children. About 93% children under 5 years of age in

the country suffer from protein deficiency. According to FAO and their

statistics women who are divorced, separated from or having disabled

husbands heads 15% of total households in Bangladesh. The members not

less than 96% of these households fall below poverty line and

experience chronic food shortage due to their inability to participate

in any income generation activities. Poverty has forced most of these

women out of their house in search of work as day labour.

Unfortunately female wage rate is also less than male wage rate in

Bangladesh.

Goat rearing specially by this group of women is a very beneficial

programme as experienced by the Department of Livestock Services.

Lemon grass also started this kind of programme experimentally in

small scale by distributing goat to these women on loan basis.