BANGLADESH: THE CHANDPUR IRRIGATION PROJECT. Effects on production and employment patterns in...

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BANGLADESH: THE CHANDPUR IRRIGATION PROJECT

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BANGLADESH: THE CHANDPUR IRRIGATION

PROJECT

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Effects on production and employment patterns in project

area• How project affects gender division of labor

by class?

• How project affects men’s and women’s access/control over resources?

• Unforeseen and unplanned consequences?

• How could unforeseen consequences been accounted for in the project design?

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Activities analysis

• By gender and class

• Access and control

• Benefits

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Project outcomes

• Could you predict?

• Why or why not?

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Suggestions for project redesign

• actual content of project, e.g., irrigation canals, technical assistance, new crops

• methods and processes used for introducing new technologies

• more careful understanding of local economic and social structure

• relate to secondary and tertiary project outcomes

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INDIA: ACCESS TO SCHOOLING IN AMBAKACH

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Questions

• What factors influence children’s attendance in school. Any gender differences?

• How are these related to the work their parents do?

• How do the nonformal and incentives programs increase access to education?– differences for boys and girls?

– why?

• What suggestions to improve incentives program?

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Evaluating the impact of the two programs

• What are the differences of the programs?

• What are the sex ratios of attendees?

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Nonformal programs--Hema

• Addresses misfit between formal education and poor rural children

• Time (7-9 PM)

• Student fairs

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Incentive program--Ninama

• Provided textbooks, uniforms, supplies--intended to lower direct costs

• Grain--intended to lower opportunity cost of education

• Differential grain allotments, since parents needed higher incentives for girls

• Recognition of girls’ greater contribution to household survival

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Program evaluation--1

• Total enrollments in Standards 1-4 increased 33% in 1983-84 over 1982-83. Number of girls doubled

• Total enrollment in 1984-85 increased 3%, with the jump mainly in Standard 1-2. Standard 4 increased only by 6%; Standard 3 decreased by 42%

• In 1983-84 girls accounted for 31% of total in Standard 1 and 53% by 1984-85

• Increases in Standard 2 reflect almost entirely increase in boys enrollment

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Program evaluation--2

• Girls enrollments in Standards 3 and 4 as a percentage of the whole fell

• Average monthly attendance for both boys and girls increased

• Retention rates for boys exceed those for girls; retention rates for nonrepeaters higher than for repeaters. Girls tend to be repeaters, and this compounds their ability to stay in school

• Allocations of uniforms and textbooks and supplies are biases towards boys

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INDIA: THE MAHARASHTRA EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE

SCHEME

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Questions

• Assess the importance of gender roles as they might affect employment of the guarantee scheme?

• Any relationships between the work done through Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and people’s productivity? Explain.

• What suggestions for the Minister of Planning about how to improve/change the EGS?

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How can a poverty alleviation program be better designed?

• Assets need to improve people’s lives and work conditions by gender

• How was the EGS supposed to work?

• Effectiveness of the EGS as it actually worked

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Wage Scale

• how varies by type of task assigned/performed

• gender differences

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Location of work

• Women’s double roles may limit travel

• Failure of the project to provide work within 5 km

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Work of Children

• Education, normal work roles

• Affect on school enrollment

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Labor Availability

• Men continue to work on family land

• Women seen as redundant labor & can seek work

• Does EGS take advantage of this fully? How could it?

• What about seasonality? How could the program take this into account?

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Exploitation

• What elements of EGS design and implementation lend themselves to exploitation of the workers?

• Gender differences?

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Asset creation and beneficiaries

• EGS more helpful to people or contractors?

• How could project be better designed?

• What are the gender implications of the choices among the assets to be produced?

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INDONESIA: THE P2WIK-UNDP BATIK PROJECT

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PHILIPPINES: THE ASLONG IRRIGATION PROJECT

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THAILAND: THE SARABURI DAIRY FARMING PROJECT

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Questions on gender division of labor

• How does gender division of labor affect potential success?

• Effects on access and control over resources

• What actors would you consider in assessing the financial viability of the dairy farming project?

• Are dairy cattle profitable to the women? What are constraints?

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Macro- and micro-contexts

• What factors made the greatest differences in getting the project started?

• What would have happended if some of these had not been present?

• Which were necessary for project success and which were of less consequence?

• Why?

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What is necessary for dairying to succeed?

• High producer cows (imported)

• Capital to purchase cows and support systems

• Demand for product

• Method for marketing product

• Inputs (e.g., land, labor, capital, feed, vet. services, insurance, technical, assistance)

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Financial Approach

• Costs

• Returns

• comparisons with other income sources

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Costs

• Purchase price/cow Bt 677

• Feed/cow/month 550

• insurance/cow/month 67

• transport costs/cow/month 200

• _______________________________

• Total monthly costs/cow Bt 1,494

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Returns

• one cow gives 11 to 22 kg of milk/day

• price paid/kg of good milk is Bt 6.5

• 11 kg = Bt 71.5/cow/day x 30 day

• Equals Bt 2,134/cow/month

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Returns

• Subtract costs from returns to determine profits

• Multiply by number of cows

• Add profits division through feed mill

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Compare income

• Average net cash income/agricultural household in 1986 was Bt 36,567

• Dairy income seems good