empowerment of coastal fishing community for livelihood security project (ECFC) developmental objectives are to promote livelihood security of the poor coastal fishing communities. Community livestock and dairy development project (CLDDP) has organized 3275 village group members (VGMs)-2750 male members and 525 female members in 655 villages. Total TK 183, 09, 305 ($2.2 million) deposited to livestock development fund (LDF) and total Tk 31, 05,554 insurance premiums deposited to livestock insurance fund (LIF) by VGMs. Out of 5445 cow heifer 177 died, GMPF compensation paid against 148 dead cow heifers. GMPF has set up 6 community livestock centers (CLC), 5 livestock subcenters and 85 trevice points had been equipped with all veterinary facilities including mini laboratory, which are managed by Community Livestock Officers (CLO), Livestock Field Assistants (LAs) and Veterinary Compounder s(VCs) located at the livestock service centers (LSCs). The veterinary clinical laboratory and vaccination services are given free of cost to project clients. GMPF has feed supply and fodder cultivation program too. Under this program, it cultivated 1396 decimal napier plots, 125 decimal guinea plots, 6.03 decimal ipil-ipil plots and 445 decimal maize plots. GMPF has initiated two community dairy enterprises (CDs) with milk cooling two tanks of 2000 liter each were established at Nimgachi and Dinajpur. GMPF has also been executing shrimp farms at Chokoria, Cox's Bazar and Satghira. GMPF had 8 fish seed multiplication farms with total area of 11.16 hectors across Bangladesh. Modern fish culture and livestock production technologies has introduced in the project. GMPF has conducted many workshops on fisheries and livestock management, community forestation and micro-credit management for local people that has impacted increasing local fish and livestock productions and community forestations in Bangladesh. Many local green jobs are created by GMPF projects by expanding/ creating green smallbusinesses like agricultural and artisan jobs there. GMPF runs all these projects/programs by 435 staff in Bangladesh. GMPF initiatives embrace the distinctive characteristics with a strong social mission. It earns revenues from the market and covers its costs from the revenues, which is hard for it to sustain financially. Moreover, the shock news is the Government of Bangladesh did not extend ponds lease agreement period to GMPF. Hence GMPF returned all ponds and fish seed farms to GoB in 2010. As result community members' access to these ponds management has declined. Hence these community members face challenges to continue their community green economic development in future. # Introduction his paper is an overview of Grameen Motsho (Fisheries) O Pashusampad (Livestock) Foundation (GMPF), which is an example of the community resource asset-based [ponds community economic development (CED) project in Bangladesh. The paper examines applications of theories of CED as a strategy for improving the quality of life of marginalized people through GMPF activities in rural Bangladesh. The Grameen Motsho (Fisheries) O Pashusampad (Livestock) Foundation (GMPF) is a green social business community economic development project serving marginalised people in Bangladesh. The geographical areas of this project is in Bangladesh are covering 14 districts, 32 Thanas/sub-districts. The districts are Tangail, Sirajgong, Pabna, Bogra, Gaibandha, Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilphamari, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon, Panchaghar, Satkhira, Chittagong and Cox's bazaar, Satkhera and Jamalpur. GMPF involves in livestock and fish production, mobilizing poor people, engage in livestock and fish production, community forestation and other community green economic activities by managing leased 1035 Khas (public GMPF is a social business institution generating revenues and serving poor people by utilizing these leased Khas ponds in Bangladesh. The GMPF connects local poor people to these ponds; involve them in livestock and fisheries activities. These livestock and fisheries activities open local green economic opportunity for marginalized communities there. In addition to these, GMPF encourages local poor people to form fish culture and livestock associations in order to develop their capacity building to manage these Khas ponds and to develop their partnership capacity and confidence among the beneficiaries. This asset-based community green economic development project generates the power of local fish and livestock production associations to drive the community green economic development process and leverage entitlements to local poor people (Mathieu & Cunningham, 2004) for their own benefit. # II. # Objectives of the Study The objectives of this study is to examine the motives, policies, strategies and approaches of GMPF community green economic development (CED) and to link these concepts with GMPF if it benefits to local poor people in Bangladesh. # III. # Research Questions Is Grameen Motsho (Fisheries) O Pashusampad (Livestock) Foundation (GMPF) a CED program in Bangladesh? If so, how it works, what approaches and strategies GMPF follows. What are its strengths and challenges it faces in implementing its CED mission? IV. # Methodology The author writes this paper from his pre-and post-GMPF operation experience in Bangladesh. The author collected GMPF annual reports and other GMPF reports from GMPF office at Dhaka. The paper contains literature review and secondary data. He directly talks with GMPF executives, field officers, and local elites of the project to know about GMPF activities, policies, strategies and approaches in Bangladesh. The author looks at GMPF 'Memorandum of Articles' and 'Memorandum of Associations' and GMPF lease agreement with the Department of Fisheries and Livestock, Government of Bangladesh. The paper follows interpretative method; however, it does not critically analyse GMPF activities, outcomes, strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, this paper is not an analytical paper rather it is an informative paper that provides readers with a synopsis of community managed Khas ponds contributed to local poverty reduction, fish culture and livestock production, green technology transfer among marginalised people in Bangladesh. V. # Literature Review Community economic development (CED) means a process through which citizens take charge of planning and managing economic development projects in their community areas with the aim of creating employment for them, improving their quality of (Quarter, Mook, & Armstrong, 2009, p. 80). According to CEDNet CED defined as action by people locally to create economic opportunities and enhance social conditions in their communities on a sustainable and inclusive basis, particularly with those who are most disadvantaged. Putnam (2000) refers to these dynamics as social capital development, social engagement, trust, and informal cooperation, as social capital can create multipliers, as strong communities pull together and initiate new projects. Therefore, CED projects have an important role in reducing the hardships associated with social inequalities. CED projects are mainly targeting below average standard of living people or involve groups who experience extraordinary challenges. Many community scholars think CED is a tool used to get economic equality. It is a program to address economic insecurity of the marginalised members of the community. Government supported CED projects, either direct full funding or partial funding to CED projects, or lease/donate government properties like ponds, lands, bazaars, roads, public busses, industries to community organizations, can generate revenues from them, covers project costs and contribute to local living green economics. The author believes that community green economic development projects are social businesses that are not completely dependent on external continuous support rather it generates revenues from its products and services to cover project costs. Moreover, inclusion of marginalised people in project services could generate employment among disadvantaged people; get green economic and social benefit from CED services. According to Quarter et al. (2009) CED involves organizations-nonprofits and cooperatives that are within social economy. These organizations earn a portion of their revenues from the market, sometimes in competition with other private sector firms, but they rely on support from government, and at times from corporations and individuals, both financial and volunteer labour. One of the intentions of CED project is reducing external funding/ public funding and ultimately reaching financial sustainability in order to be selfsufficient of its own after certain time. However, it is difficult for CED to survive as profit making business in the free market economy. As CED project synchronize economic and social missions together in its social business model, CED project required ongoing external support for a while, but here the problem is external funding support decrease even funding support stopped before CED projects reach their financial self-sufficiencies. In Canada and USA government agencies and foundations are important supporters of CED projects although now government support is decreasing. Quarter et al. (2009) suggest that small business development funding could include CED initiatives in social businesses. Other alternatives could be private and CED project resource partnership sharing; public funding, foundations and community organizations collaboration project in the poverty prone area to generate employment among local disadvantaged people. In Canada government initiated and supported many aboriginal businesses and projects in Northern regions through the department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, and Aboriginal Businesses Canada (ABC). Moreover, Community Futures Development Corporation has 268 CED projects across Canada. These are community development corporations (CDCs) and public sector non-profits agencies that have social economic contribution in Canada. They are the social economy organizations that have market orientation that combine a social mission and vision. They serve small and medium businesses within the communities. For example, Quint Development Corporation serves five neighbourhoods of Saskatoon through renting 45,000 square feet Community Enterprise Centre that combine retail and commercial office spaces. It also built housing cooperatives for ninety families including child care centre, family recreation and community gardens (Quarter, Mook, & Armstrong, 2009). These are outreach programs and services within their jurisdiction, which could be difficult in centralised public institutions. Author's experience finds that projects like the technical and vocational training assistance program, agricultural projects, urbane food security services, community gardens, community kitchens, community transport pool services and community printing press could help community unemployed people to work in these projects and learn technical and vocational skills to make them employable in the job market. Therefore CED is a system of human activity directed to meeting human wants that is determined by deliberate allocations of scarce resources, including human time (Boothroyd & Davis, 1993, p. 230). Here people gain confidence when their opinions and experience are valued; their confidence strengthens their participation in community planning and decision making (Shragge, 1997, p. 46). Therefore CED agencies should be organized to promote cooperation rather than competition although they operate in the free market economy. Through this process, community people are concerned with each other's well-being and gain satisfaction from cooperating. GMPF is an example of community economic and social/emotional project where people feel connected with each other although the purpose of this project is to increase community livestock and fish production and increase income, solidarity, distribute justice and enhance quality life among GMPF beneficiaries. Through GMPF-CED activities, services and processes it helps community marginalised members become empowered to participate in the community resource optimum uses, engage in community planning and decision making for the well being of their own in the project areas. According to Mathieu & Cunningham (2004) this assetbased community development project could foster inclusive participation, fostering community leadership, foster relocation of power to communities and increase civic engagement in the community. It provides the source of constructive energy in the local communities. However, ideal community equality achievement is still hard to achieve in neoliberal market economy particularly in Bangladesh. Under community economic development, it is seen as synonymous with promoting growth in jobs, income, or business activity. Here community is seen simply as the locality in which businesses get together to promote their interests through economic expansion (Alexander, 2000;Quarter, Mook & Armstrong, 2009). Many local green jobs are created by CED projects by expanding/ creating green small-businesses like agricultural and artisan jobs. It increases local control and brings local living green economics' stability in the community. Moreover CED encourages local control and power ownership of resources; it creates organizations that are representative of and accountable to the local community, enables communities to address issues of poverty and inequality, environmental degradation and drives to basic social change (Shragge, 1997). Because CED principle is to utilize local resources, promote establishment of new green firms by local entrepreneurs and increase the productivity of the firms. Although CED approach is a single minded economic growth-commercialization approach and unable to structural change, CED projects increase the flow of money into local community. It has trickledown effect that helps the entire economy, which is very important to increase income among poor people and to address the issue of poverty. However, CED projects needs diversify external investment resources and use community resources, but it could reduce dependence on outside decisionmakers by increasing local control over resource management. Moreover, community project initiators need to emphasis on planning for all relevant private, public and community agencies in setting targets, surveying opportunities and developing a wide range of strategies, which are sometimes absent in CED projects. Although social enterprises, community green economic development programs/servicers, public sector non-profits, non-profit mutual associations, civil society organizations, cooperatives, credit unions, micro-credit agencies and social financings all are social businesses and they are components of social economy, they are different in terms of approaches, structures, designs, strategies and policies. All these organizations have both social and economic missions, but all of them have different principles and operate strategies in the market economy. However, they have common provision for generating revenue from their operations in addition to social well being services to disadvantaged people. They are all different from charitable grants and relief organizations. Charitable organizations have traditions of social handout giving assisting those in need. Social enterprises are completely different from for-profit business organizations because for-profit business organizations main objective is profit maximizing; they don't have social and environmental commitment to society. In GMPF social businesses organization community members are not handout receivers rather they are community beneficiaries who are part of community fisheries and livestock production economic actors and social actors in Bangladesh. Boothroyd and Davis (1993) think that community development corporation institutions favour those most in need in the community. This approach includes production and distribution based on non market principles of common ownership, mutual aid, and improving productive life at the expense of the efficiency. It creates alternatives to capitalism, rebuild and reconnect people with water, air, soil, agriculture and changes the quality of life for a number of people; however, it requires a major shift in power which is usually not easy for local communities. Moreover, this entrepreneurial approach generally reinforces individualist and capitalist values, bringing poor people into competitive market economy (Shragge, 1997) H Nimgashi Fish Culture Project (NFCP), Sirajgong on his way return to Dhaka from Rangpur Grameen Bank branches tour. The author visited several Khas ponds of Nimgashi Fisheries Project (NFP) located in Raigong and Tarash Upzilla and collected preliminary information about NFP. The NFP has huge infrastructures in Nimgashi and Tarash sub-districts. Many cluster Khas ponds situated in Nimgashi area. Among these Khas ponds, Joyshagore Digi (pond) is the biggest one in the area with 22.35 ha of water surface. Mahango tribal people, 20% (approximately) of total population, live in this area; however, public has no access to these Khas ponds for fish cultivation although many poor people live on these ponds' embankments. Many rural powerful elites illegally occupied many Khas ponds and take benefit from them. Although many government officers work in this project, few of them stay in the project area. There is an excellent fish fingerlings production center in Nimgashi; however, it is in underproduction. The author's preliminary observation reported to Muhammad Yunus and to GB executives. After one year (November 07, 1985) Yunus again sent the author to NFCP to survey it. At this time the author surveyed NFCP with GB another officer to explore the project resources and to asses if Grameen Bank and poor people could benefit from the project by managing it. The author writes a feasibility report on NFCP and identifies problems, potentialities, possibilities, and challenges for GB if GB is managing these Khas ponds and other resources of NFCP. On March 20th 1986 the author returned to Dhaka after delivering 5000 Thai Camble baby ducks to GB branches in Tangail and Dhaka district, managing director of GB request him to join GB Nimgachi Area Office as an Area Manager in order to start Grameen Bank micro-credit services in Nimgashi and its surrounding area. The author worked in Nimgachi for two years as an area manager. During this time he opened GB twenty Grameen Bank branches. In addition to his GB responsibilities he was involved with GBJMP operations in Raigonja, Tarash, Handial and Vangura sub-districts. He intensively traveled in each village of these sub-districts, visited all ponds of the projects, talked with rural elites, politicians, general people and government officials. He friendly explained them the missions and visions of GB and GBJMF in these subdistricts. Although at the beginning many rural elites were protested against GJMP, later they were impressed of GB activities and appreciated GB and GBJMP activities in their area. # b) Grameen Bank operation starts in Grameen Bank Joygagor Motsho Project (GJMP) in Khas ponds in Sirajgong, Pabna and Dinajpur The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL), Govt. of Bangladesh (GoB) first transferred 782 ancients and derelict ponds with 675 ha water areas for 25 years to Grameen Bank in March 07, 1986 with the aim of improvement/better fisheries production and management, stop leaking/ corruptions by the government officials and to stop illegal occupancy of Khas (public jurisdiction) ponds by the local elites. Latter the government also decided to lease many other fish and shrimp farms and Fish Seed Multiplication Farms, spread over across Bangladesh. The Ministry of Fisheries managed Dinajpur Fisheries Project and Fish Seed Multiplication farms were handed over to Grameen Bank at the end of 1986. There were agreements between Government of Bangladesh and Grameen Bank for handing over physical possession of all assets and ponds on long term lease for community based management by organizing the landless poor people living on and rescue ponds those are occupied by locally influential people and around the embankments of the ponds. After receiving them, GB renamed this project to Grameen Bank Joysagore Motsho Project (GBJMP) in 1987. In 1994, GBJMP became a separate organization and named it Grameen Motsho Foundation (GMF). It again renamed Grameen Motsho O Pasusampad Foundation (GMPF) in 1999. The author was assigned to attend all 'GBJMP Advisory Committee' meetings in addition to his job in Grameen Bank Training, Research and Special Program portfolio at Dhaka. Although at the beginning the local elites protested against of GBJMP management, GBJMP is able to overcome this problem and smoothly run the project. The primary objective of GMPF is to produce and to provide protein rich food and thus improve human dietary standard. GMPF other objectives are (1) to undertake production, transportation, processing and marketing of products of fisheries, livestock, agriculture, horticulture, homestead gardening, social afforestation and bio-gas plants and other income generating activities to bring improvement in the quality of life of the poor, in particular of poor women; to finance, assist, take or give on lease, or otherwise support the management of fisheries, livestock, horticulture and forestry-based enterprises which are owned by the poor, in particular by poor women. (2) to promote the increased participation of women in fisheries, livestock, horticulture and forestry production, storage, marketing, processing and other such related business; and (3) to promote the increased participation of women in integrated fish-crop-livestock, horticulture, bio-gas, milk cooling, feed making and forestry production, storage, processing, marketing , and other related business. The goals of GMPF are: diversifying rural production, increasing employment potentials, to provide alternative employment to rural people especially women, produce more fish, livestock and horticultural products for local consumption and to improve the nutritional standards in rural areas through additional supplies of animal proteins and vitamins, The Nimgachi Fish Culture Project named as Joysagor Fish Farm (JF) by Grameen Bank after the name Joysagor-the biggest pond in the area with 22.35 ha of water surface. JF is scattered over 200 square kilometres of remote rural areas of 5 Thanas of Sirajgong, Panba and Bogra districts where ancient ponds of Paul and Sen Dynasties were left derelict and unused for hundreds of years. This has rendered these ponds as grazing grounds of cattle and goats. For rehabilitation and aquaculture, GB transferred these resources to Grameen Motsho (Fisheries) Foundation (GMLF) soon after its creation in 1994 as its sister concern. GMLF organised the local people living on banks of the ponds or its close vicinity, formed them into groups of five beneficiaries and centers of 6-8 groups who were trained in aquaculture, rural development and social development activities and were given all inputs including fry, fertilizers, manure, feeds, nets, boasts, etc. The possessions of the derelict ponds were given over from the vested interest groups to the down-trodden and resource less poor. It was an uphill task. GMPF has excavated/re-excavated 432 ponds with 417.50 ha water area and brought under scientific fish culture (GMPF, 2006). Table - The Jamuna Borrow Pits were created as result of construction of East and West Approach roads of Jamuna Bridge in Tangail and Sirajgong. Due to acquisition of land on both sides of the road, many people were rendered homeless and landless. The people are called Project Affected Person s (PAPs). Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Authority (JMBA) has its moral and legal responsibility to 42 km of slopes of the approach roads for construction of ponds for fish culture and developing the farms for agriculture and horticulture and the slopes for plantation. GMPF accepted the offer from the government for fish culture in the ponds and plantation besides the road and took over possession in 1997 by virtue of agreement for 25 years lease singed between Jumuna Multipurpose Bridge Authority (JMBA) and GMPF on 12-03-1997. Under this project the major component was excavation of 90 ha of new water areas (ponds) for creating physical resources for the poor people living adjacent to the 42 km long East and West approach Roads of the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge (JMB) in Tagnail and Sirajgonj districts. During 1998-2004 only 65 ponds having a water area of 67 ha were excavated under JBPF. This project is a unique example of Integrated Farming through Fish-Crop-Livestock and Social Afforestation having 1005 women VGMs-the only one of its type in Bangladesh. # i) GMPF Micro-credit Implementation Project Grameen Motsho O Pashu Sampad Foundation (GMPF) has been executing the Command Area Development Project and Micro-credit Implementation Project funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB). This project was operated in three sub-districts (Santhia, Bera, Sujanagar) of Pabna district. GMPF had been organizing the ponds, borrow-pits, and irrigation canals of Pabna Irrigation and Rural Development project. The project owners' preferably landless poor, marginal farmers, fishermen, hatchery/nursery operators, net makers, and sellers and other aquaculture related persons. GMPF had organised 499 groups of 5005 beneficiaries, and gave them training in fish culture, gender issues, social development issues, legal awareness etc. It covers 134 villages, and 519 hectors of water areas. The project gave micro-credit to the beneficiaries not in the form of 'cash' but in the form of 'input'. During the project period the project disbursed Tk. 17.05 million as input credit to the beneficiaries and the recovery rate is 86.30%. village organizations. This project was basically a social mobilization and community empowerment project following a multidimensional approach. The project engages a numbers of service providers from the private sector to assist the project in achieving its objectives within the framework of project concept, strategy, and institutional arrangements. The developmental objectives of the project were to promote livelihood security of the poor coastal fishing communities. The ECFC immediate objectives were to: (1) assist the communities to empower themselves to collectively address their problems and needs; (2) introduce various economic and community approaches which are operated and managed by the community organizations; and (3) facilities sustainable conservation and management of coastal marine and estuarine fisheries resources and habitats through strengthening of community based management of the resources. ECFC target people are marginalized women, children and men are from the coastal fishing communities and the people who are most prone to recurrent natural disasters. The project concept is based on the Sustainable Livelihood Approach-includes the vulnerability context, peoples coping and adaptive strategies, the livelihood assets, and the livelihood outcomes. Poor fishing communities have access to information, assets and resources as well as knowledge and technologies, employments and alternative income options in the area. ECFC emphasises on marine fishing technologies and strength capacity building for disaster management among coastal people. # k) Community Livestock and Diary Development Project (CLDDP) The objectives of the CLDDP project are to contribute to national efforts for poverty alleviation by providing a model for sustainable rural development opportunities for women. The project is located in GMPF`s three-existing farm areas namely (1) Joysagar Farm, (2) Dinajpur Farm, and (3) Jamuna Borrow-Pits Farm (JBPF) in 18 sub-districts of 7 districts in Northern West of Bangladesh. CLDPP works in 375 villages of 18 sub-districts of seven districts in Bangladesh. It has 360 centers, 1150 groups and 7750 beneficiaries where 4600 were male (59.35%) and 3150 females (40.65%) under 22 GMPF unit offices (Grameen Mostsho O Pashusampad Foundation Annual Report 2006). The following table shows GMPF meat, milk, dung and eggs production of GMPF under CLDDP. A savings account has been opened at each of the GMPF village centers to make up a local Livestock Development Fund by VGMs. Each VGM contributes TK. 5 at every fortnightly meeting as a compulsory savings into the LDF. This is considered to be a personal savings of each VGM and proper records were maintained at the centre to determine the amounts saved by each VGM so that he/ she may be able to withdraw the full amount with interest at the time the VGM leaves the center. Every time a VGM receives a loan for a livestock package through the center, a sum equal to 2.5% of the value of the livestock (milch cow and pregnant heifer) procured is deducted from the total loan amount and deposited into the LDF at the centre. j) to contribute to the LDF at the rate of thirty paisa (TK. 0.30) for every litre of milk sold, irrespective of whether it is sold direct to the market or through the Community Dairy Enterprise (Grameen Mostsho O Pashu Sampad Foundation Annual Report 2006). Bank interest for the fund accrued in the savings account gets added every quarter into the LDF. Any fine imposed by the centre on the GM is also deposited into the LDF. m) Livestock Insurance Fund (LIF) 2.5% of the purchased value of cows/heifers realised as premium have been deposited to the insurance account. Out of 5445 cow heifer 177 died and compensation paid against 148 dead cow heifers. The details of livestock insurance fund position are shown in Table below. The project motivated the VGMs on the advantages of feed and fodder for dairy cows setting up demonstration plots in Units. Distribution of milch cow was subject to a condition that every VGM should plant at least a small plot of improved grass such as Napier, Guinea grass, maize or ipil-ipil whatever land available in the backyard of the beneficiaries or on pond embankments. Grass cutting and ipil-ipil seedlings were distributed to the VGMs. VGMs cultivated 1396 decimal napier plots , 125 decimal guinea plots, 6.03 decimal ipil-ipil plots and 445 decimal maize plots and others 700 decimal. The project has also set up feed mills for supplying quality cattle feed to the VGMs. Since inception 3 feed mills produced and distributed 5184 Metric tons of feed (Grameen Mostsho O Pashusampad Foundation Annual Report 2006). q) Community Feed Mill (CFM) Although there is a provision for two feed mills at Nimgachi and Dinajpur, the project established three feed mills one more at JBPF for facilitating steady # Implications of the Study The experience of GMPF is one of the examples of CED green program in Bangladesh. In theory CED approach has many advantages in producing local jobs creation, increase income among community members, empower people, and address the issue of poverty by using local resources for local community members. It is an approach where private-public-community agencies make partnerships among them and serve to local communities for their wellbeing. GMPF has community Khas ponds project. This community project cultivates fish by employing local poor people. Moreover, GMPF project encourage community members to become involved in fish culture; livestock productions and community forestations in its project area. They are an asset-based community economic development project that has an innovative strategy for community-driven development for rural communities in Bangladesh. Therefore, community economic development workers, researchers, policy makers, academicians and executives could learn from GMPF different services, products, tools and its implementation strategies from this paper. This paper can assist them to plan and to initiate CED projects in their own communities lesions learned from GMPF. # VII. # Conclusion GMPF employed local people to work in the GMPF fish culture firm and livestock farm. GMPF mobilise local villagers to make fish culture associations and let them jointly (association members and GMPF field staff) work with the project in order to increase livestock and fish production in the area. GMPF livestock association members benefited from the GMPF services. It has setup milk collection chilling points at different locations near to villages where people sell their milk. The Grameen Yogurt plant uses the collected milk for producing Grameen Yogurt. Many local people employed in this Yogurt plant for producing and selling yogurt. Modern fish culture and livestock production technologies were introduced to the project. GMPF conducted many workshops on livestock management, fish culture management, community forestation and micro-credit for local people that have impacted increasing local fish and livestock production and community forestation. Many NGOs' field workers, government officials and international agencies visited the project and learn GMPF activities and management strategies. For example, Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation, DFID, UK, JICA, Indian Livestock Association, Nepal Fisheries Department, Kenya Livestock Department etc. visited GMPF and they learned about GMPF ponds management. The author finds GMPF beneficiaries gain access to modern livestock and fish production through this project that resulted in an increase to their income, created excitement, confidence, access to better food, housing and social activities, acquire new skills and information and developed coping strategies through GMPF. The GMPF technology transfer process helps local poor to develop their leadership skills, exposed to technologies on modern fish culture, and livestock production and community forestation. GMPF these activities, programs and services have created many employments in project area and help the community to be self-help at the local level. Grameen Bank field staff works hard to serve local poor people in providing micro loans, open center schools cost free for the poor in addition to other benevolent activities in Bangladesh. GBJMP has developed a people centered decentralised local community partnership ponds management model for low cost fish culture and livestock production in the project area that become an examples for the local communities and other agencies in Bangladesh. The ![Eradication of Poverty Through Community Green Economic Development Utilizing Khas (Government Jurisdiction) Ponds: Lessons Learned from Grameen Motsho (Fisheries) O Pashusampad (Livestock) Foundation (GMPF) in Bangladesh](image-2.png "") skill development, training on social mobilizationand gender issues, group and communitydevelopment, training on fisheries, livestock, socialafforestation, horticulture and homestead gardeningetc. (Memorandum of Articles and Memorandum ofAssociation (GMPF), 2003; Memorandum of Articlesand Memorandum of Association (GMF), 1994).d) Joysagor Aquaculture Farmc) Functions/activities of Grameen Motsho O PashuSampsad Foundation (GMPF)The functions /activities of GMPF are as follows:1. Community Fisheries Development: Fish farming,Shrimp farming, integrated aquaculture, fish monoculture, fish poly culture, fish-cum-shrimp culture,paddy-cum-fish culture, duck weed culture, fishhatcheries and nurseries, shrimp hatchery, broodmanagement, marketing of fish, hatchlings &fry, Icemaking and net-making.2. Community Livestock and Diary Development: Cowfarming, milk chilling, processing and marketing,beef fattening, goat farming, poultry farming, duckfarming, pig farming, use of cow dung as slurry andfertilizer, development of bio-gas plants, communitydiary enterprises and community feed mills.3. Community Farming and Social Afforestation: Socialforestry,home-steadgardening,landscapegardening, horticulture farming, crops & fodderfarming, and plant nurseries.4. Training and Manpower Development: Programsinclude training of GMPF officers & staff, training ofgovernment and NGOs staff, training of groupmembers,internationaltrainingonsocialmobilization, groups and community developmentthrough integrated fish-crop-livestock and dairydevelopment activities.5. Social Mobilization Program;This program includesmotivate and orientation, formation of groups andcenters, facilitation and communication skilldevelopment, gender awareness, legal awareness,awareness building for health, nutrition, safe water&sanitation, education and rights, training of poormen and women on facilitation and communication 11 shows year wise performance ofJoysagar Farm.e) JF year-wise fish production, share and income ofbeneficiariesA total of 14451.22 MT of fish were produced byJF since inception up to 2006. Fifty percent of the fishwent to the share of poor beneficiaries. An amount of Tk.179.21 million was received by the beneficiaries in 16years as their share. Number of beneficiaries rose from2249 in 1990-91 to 5876 in 2006. Per capita additionalincome through fish culture rose from TK. 1700 in 1990-1991 to Tk. 7223 in the year 2006. Per ha fishproduction rose from 700 kg in 1988-89 to 2734.30 kg in2006-a rise of over 3905 in last 20 years or 19.53% perannum increase on an average. Out of 5876 of VGMs2756 were involved in fish culture in 2006 (GrameenMostsho O Pashusampad Foundation Annual Report2006).Source: Grameen Mostsho O pashusampad Foundation Annual Report 2006. 2Year# ofWaterProductionProductiTotalShare of# ofIncomepondsareaof fishon ofIncomebeneficiariesbenefiper headunder(ha)(MT)fish/ha(Tk. in@40 (Tk. Inciaries(Tk.)cultivationLacs)Lacs)1988-893588.3418.60210.554.79---1989-9050133.1819.62147.326.53---1990-0153136.5249.34361.4111.84---1991-9253140.8196.34684.1815.106.044511340.001992-9350133.48121.00906.5017.426.984391590.001993-9450134.821778.001320.2833.39134.374962695.00199554154.00209.001441.3846.3017.184823564.00199656150.58204.001354.7636.8213.414922726.00199756150.58128.73854.9029.0211.234802340.00199856149.65137.44918.4837.3414.796192389.00199956149.65147.00982.3040.2915.986152598.00200054151.79161.201062.0047.5917.706362783.00200152144.8187.181292.754.0720.666663102200252153.8201.001304.6555.9522.187223072200351146.40208.171421.9356.0422.297763488 3Water AreasActivitiesTotalCommentsNo of Centers45No of Groups274No of Members1259100%No of Ponds65womenWater Area (ha)69.60FishProduction52.84(MT)Source: Grameen Mostsho O Pashusampad FoundationAnnual Report 2006. 4Descript# of#ofArea under#ofSavingsLoanLoaniongroupbeneficiariecultivationvillagescollectiondisbursementrecovery inscovereds million inin million inmillion (TK.)(TK.)(TK.)Actual34135533671267.9317.05118.94Target3413410341126-17.0514.50%100%104.2%107.6%100%-100%81.37%Source: Grameen Mostsho O pashusampad Foundation Annual Report 2006.Empowerment of Coastal Fishing Community forLivelihood Security Project (ECFC)GrameenMosshoOPashuSampadFoundation (GMPF) was executed the socialmobilization program 'the Empowerment of CoastalFishing Communities and Livelihood Security Project'(ECFC) in Cox's Bazar, Ramu, Teknaf, Ukiya,Moheskhali and Kutubdisa sub-districts under Cox'sBazar district covering 65 fishing villages, and 149 5ProducesTotal (as of2006)Total Milk Production6723871(LitreMilk received by CDE3560999(Litre)Eat (Fattening Cattle)1478.99(MT)Cow dung: produced62434(MT) (EstimatedEgg (nos)1329591Source: Grameen Mostsho O Pashusampad FoundationAnnual Report 2006.l) Livestock Development Fund (LDF) 6Compounder (DescriptionTotalNo. Of insured cows4250heifersTotal premium realized27,21,809(Tk.)No. Of insured cows177heifers diedNo. of Insurance claimed148settledAmount of insurance3,79,170claimed settledTotal LIF31,05,554Source: Grameen Mostsho O Pashusampad FoundationAnnual Report 2006.n) Livestock Support ServicesThe project provided adequate facilities fortreatment, vaccination, artificial insemination, foddercultivation and pregnancy test for cow heifers. Moreoverfacilities like treatment, vaccination and other facilitiesfor goats, poultry, ducks etc. provided with necessaryequipment, instruments, trevice, LFA kit box and otherancillary appliances. In addition, linkage has beenestablished with Department of Livestock Services (DLS)to provide more necessary inputs and veterinaryservices.o) Community Livestock Centers and Livestock Sub-centersIn order to provide needed veterinary servicesfor the livestock distributed to the VGMs, the project hasset up 06 Community Livestock Centers (CLC) atNimghachi, Tarash, Sujan, Elenga, Ramrai and Dinajpur.Moreover five livestock sub-centers setup at Nandigram,Nalka, Deul, Vitargarh, Belowa and Ramarai units. 85trevice points had been equipped with all veterinaryfacilities including mini laboratory. They had been managed by a Community Livestock Officer (CLO),Livestock Field Assistant (LA) and Veterinary 7DescriptionTotal (as of2006)No. of various types of Vaccination114631Artificial Insemination and PregnancyTestNo. Of Artificial Insemination done by7429the projectNo. Of Pregnancy Diagnosis done by1665DLSNo. De-worming done by the project17103No. of Infertility treatment done by the1216projectTotal no. of cases treated atTrevice Points13559CLC LSC13258VGMs house on emergency call960VGMs houses services provided28157Source: Grameen Mostsho O Pashusampad FoundationAnnual Report 2006.p) Feed supply and Fodder Cultivation 20 2 © 2013 Global Journals Inc. (US) ( )H 20 2 20 2 2 58 ( ) H GBJMP management. All people were impressed of GB and GBJMF activities. The author narrated his GB and GBJMP working experiences in his monthly official report received from the project during his tenure at Nimgashi. It was a great experience for him. The Khas ponds lease agreement between Grameen Bank and GoB was for 25 years . The Government of Bangladesh did not extend the lease period; hence GMPF returned all these Khas ponds to GoB in 2010. Khas ponds return to Government by GMPF has declined community members' access to ponds management and fish cultivation. As a result GMPF association members and beneficiaries are deprived from the pond management participations although they are conscious about their rights to access to Khas ponds fish culture. Hence the sustainability of this GMPF community economic development project faces red tape challenges to develop/flourish. Moreover, there is a question would the government bureaucrats red tape be able to carry people centered GMPF fisheries and livestock associations services to communities because government officials do not have experience working with the local communities in Bangladesh. 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