Project
Kawra Women's Pig-rearing Livelihood Development Project (stage 1)
Programme Goal: To improve the livelihoods of extremely poor rural women from the Wrapping-rearing community by improving their capacity to run their own businesses
Sector Focus : Livelihoods
Status :Completed
Duration: 2008-11
Donor : Bangladesh NGO Foundation
Number of beneficiaries: 4,500 (direct 1,500,indirect 3,000)
Working area: Digholi (in Khulna district)
Activities:
- conducting a survey to select appropriate geographical locations and target groups;
- providing training on hygienic and profitable pig rearing;
- supplying pigs to participants, free of cost;
- lobbying and advocating the adoption of a legal infrastructure for pig rearing;
- establishing a pig veterinary hospital; and
- setting up model pig farms to demonstrate good practice.
