Fish and Nutrition Workshop Day 1 (Technical Session II )

1. 1Local Government Engineering
Department(LGED)
Presented by: Sk. Md. Mohsin, Project Director & A.K.M. Firoz Khan, WorldFish
Sunamganj Community Based Resource Management Project
(SCBRMP)

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* Location, basic data and project intervention
 Consists of 11 upazilas and a total area of 3 670
sq.km. with 2 782 villages
 Population: 1968 669; male 50.89%, female
49.11%; Muslim 83.62%, Hindu 15.95%, others
0.43% ethnic groups ( Sangma, Garo and
Hajong).
 Main occupations: Agriculture 43.43%, fishing
3.34%, agricultural labourer 24.10%, wage
labourer 5.58%, commerce 7.44%, service
3.8%, others 12.31%.
 Land use: Arable land 294021 hectares , fallow
land 51 752 hectares ( 17.6%).
 Beel area: 5 500 hectares, Number 1 063
 Land control/occupancy: 33% are landless, 26%
marginal to small, 21% medium and 20% rich
farmers
Source: BBS 2006
Year wise intervention:
Sunamganj Sadar: 2003
Dakhin Sunamganj: 2003
Biswambarpur: 2003
Jamalganj: 2004
Tahirpur: 2005
Derai: 2006
Sullah: 2007
Dowarabazar: 2007
Dharmapasha: 2007
Chatak 2011
Gagannatpur 2011

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* Project entity, target people and period
Donor:
 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Sponsoring Ministry/Division:
 Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and
Co-operatives /Local Government Division
Implementing Agency:
 Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
Target People:
 90 000 - 135 000 farmer and fisher households holding
land below 2.5 acre
Project period:
 January 2003 – March 2014

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* Project partners
SCBRMP has long-term partnership with:
 Ministry of Land
 Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB)
Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute(BARI)
 Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI),
 Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute(BLRI)
 Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE),
 Department of Livestock Services (DLS),
 Department of Fisheries (DoF), and
 The WorldFish Center

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* Objective and Strategy of SCBRMP
Building social, human
and financial capital
Ensuring access to
technology and
resources
Improving social
infrastructure
Poverty
reduction

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* Project components of SCBRMP
Five components of the project:
 Labour-intensive infrastructure
development
 Fisheries development
 Agriculture and livestock
production Improvement
 Microcredit
 Institutional support

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* Fisheries
The main feature of the component:
 Arranging water-bodies/beel for the communities on long-term
basis
 Introducing community based fishers management
 Identifying and demarcating resource- bases through survey
followed by installing pillars
 Re-excavation of water-bodies and khals (canal) to restore fish
habitats
 Establishing fish sanctuaries
 Planting and restoring swamp forestry in haor area
 Promoting pond fish culture for raising income of indigent
women
 Enforcing Fish Conservation Acts
 Monitoring fish production, consumption, marketing and
assessing its impact on people’s livelihoods.

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* Steps followed for community based bell resource
management
 Resource map ( Digital)
 Social map (PRA)
 Master List of HH from Beel command villages
 Wellbeing survey
 Listing feasible BUG member
 Final list of BUG members
 Stakeholder analysis
 Timeline analysis
 Formation of BUG

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* Beel Transfer and accountability
CBRMP/LGED
-Mobilization
-Training
-Other technical assistance
-Users contact
-Training
-Other technical
assistances
BMC
Beel Users Group (BUG)
(CO Members + Other Village People)
Revenue
MLGC/LGD
DC/UNO Requisition
- Policy support
- Other technical
assistances
Beel Transfer
MoUMoL
DOF
DAE
DLS
LA
Revenue

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* Progress of the component: fisheries
Sl. # Items Indicators Project target Project total as of December 2013
Achieved %
1 BUG formed and member enrolled BUG No. 300 250 83
Member No. 9500 8870 93
Women No. in BUG 2375 2139 90
2 Beel accessed
by BUG
No. 300 250 83
Acres 6500 5913.78 91
Beel demarcated No. 250 118 47
3 Beel Developed No. 250 190 76
Acres 966.95 911.16 94
4 Khal excavated/re-excavated No. 63 69 110
Km. 63 69.95 111
5 Ponds excavated/ re-excavated No. 64 64 100
Acres 30.83 30.83 100
No. of Indigent women 284 284 100
6 Conservation campaign undertaken No. 1200 1203 100
7 Fish sanctuary established No. 100 50 50
8 Beel harvested No. 300 188 63
9 Beel audited No. 300 235 78

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* Benefit from beel fisheries
Particulars Unit FY 2010 - 2011 FY 2011 - 2012 FY 2012 - 2013
Total Total Total
Beel harvested Number 143 167 188
Area Acre 2763.81 3970.09 4820.41
Catch Kg 266586.5 263925 320103
Catch/Acre Kg 96 66 66.4
Sale Tk. 23652620 28675033 39399941
Sale/Kg Tk. 89 107.95 119.85
Income Tk. 23652620 28675033 39399941
Profit Distributed
Total Tk. 10028867 12246687 17415209
Distributed at Number of beel 143 152 159
Distributed to Number of member 3892 4514 5234
Per member received Tk. 2576.79 2713.05 3337.32
Wage earned:
Total Tk. 5630140 5659606 7922162
Earned at Number of beel 143 142 159
Earned by Number of member 1644 1987 2084
Earned per member Tk. 3424.66 2848.32 3801.42

12. * Inclusion of Mola
Objectives:
 Increasing fish production
 Increasing diversity of local species
 Increasing scope of availability of protein and mmultiple essential
micronutrients with more focus on the needs of mother and
children
 Increasing income of the poor fishers
 Promoting technology through community based sustainable
approach
 Giving technology to women for meeting their nutrition needs and
increased income more directly
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13. * Strategy undertaken
Community involvement and sustainability first
• Community based approach
• Beel selected from those are under community management
• Partnership approach between Community, Project, WFC, DOF
and local Administration
• Sustainability issues put upfront before the initiative taken
• Training of key fishers on Mola culture management and
widespread awareness on its benefit
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Beel-wise total Mola production as of 26.02.2014
Sl. # Name of Beels Upazila Stocked
(kg), (Mar-
Apr' 2013)
Baseline
production
(kg), 2012
Production
(kg), 2013-14
%
1 Mangolpurer Dubi Beel Derai 21 81 242 + 298%
2 Lomba Dair Bocha Chatol Derai 12 38 60 + 157%
3 Juri Panjuri Beel Derai 14.5 37 83 + 224%
4 Boro Medi Beel Derai 40 744 1,367 + 183%
5 Boiragimara Beel Sunamganj Sadar 7.5 235 805 + 342%
6 Aislauni Beel Sunamganj Sadar 30 41 128 + 312%
7 Kaima Beel Koiya Beel Sunamganj Sadar 45 13 403 + 1343%
8 Piran nagar beel Sunamganj Sadar 57 32 275 + 859%
9 Aung Gung Sunamganj Sadar 5 25 139 + 556%
10 Tedala Huglia Chatol South Sunamganj 15 241 179 - 140%
11 Chinamara Beel South Sunamganj 14 25 67 + 268%
12 Srinathpurer Dhola South Sunamganj 18 46 64 + 139%
13 Chatol Udaytara South Sunamganj 43 126 192 + 152%
14 Rajghori Beel South Sunamganj 21 2 32 + 1600%
Total - 343 1,686 4,036 + 240%
* Mola Production , Sunamganj

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 Mola are very fragile and sensitive to handling
 Transporting of brood within limited morning time is a very critical task
 Availability of sufficient brood is a constraint in promoting Mola culture
 Well planned and dedicated efforts are required to carry the brood and ensure stocking in
time.
 Regular conservation of habitat to keep it safe and fit for Mola is inevitable to maintain the
growth of the Mola along with other fish varieties
 Water quality and sufficiency are the key factors for better production of Mola
 Success of Mola cultivation primarily rest on the management of community of beel fisheries
 The dedication of fishers of BUG and their knowledge in beel resource management have
given greater values to successful rearing of Mola in beels.
 Partnership supports from line department along with other administrations in terms of
taking conservation measures and encouraging the community in stocking have
substantially contributed to take forward the Mola stocking programme in Sunamganj
 Have huge potentiality to promote Mola culture in Haor area based on community based
approach
* Lesson learned : Mola culture

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* Key lesson learned project in general
 Persistent efforts and team integrity are the key factors to
achieve success in the project like SCBRMP
 Community based project’s success depends on the degree
of ownership of the community in project implementation
 In all components project has largely come across many
obstacles, but project’s flexibility to address those
dynamically has helped the project to overcome those
 Regular interactions and reviewing the failures and
progresses with staff and partners have driven the project to
reach the targets

17. * A few pictorial glimpses
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* Project beneficiary

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*BUG: men and women working together

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Beel demarcation

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* Re-excavation beel and
canal

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Fish sanctuary

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Swamp tree plantation

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* Enforcing fish conservation acts

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Beel harvest

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* Benefit distribution to BUG
members by State Minister, MPs, Secretary, LGED chief, DC

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Inter- ministerial Committee meeting at field level

28. * Mola training and preparation of action plan

29. * Mola awareness raising programme at field level

30. * Mola transportation & stocking

31. * Sing board installed to raise awareness on Mola

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* Mola production in Sunamganj, 2013/14

33. *Thank you
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