BRDB is expanding the coverage of poverty alleviation projects and taking up more
innovative activities for the poor in conformity with the realities and needs of the day.
At present Board is implementing following poverty alleviation projects:
Productive Employment Project (RD-5)
The Project funded by SIDA and NORAD under Rural Employment Sector Program (RESP), was
undertaken with the overall objective to improve the socio-economic condition of the
target group people of the project area . The rural poor having 0.50 acre of land who
depend mainly on manual labour for their livelihood are the target people of PEP.
Up to June 1998 more than 7200 groups comprising 139,651 members have been formed under
this project, 61% of which is female. The members have accumulated more than 96 million taka as group savings, an
increasing amount of this saving is being utilized by the members for productive purposes
(IGAs). A large number of members were given wide varieties of social/human development
and skill development training by the project which includes, among others, family laws
and woman issues, leadership development and adult literacy. The project also invested a
sum of Taka 1156.20 million as loan to 133000 beneficiaries and the recovery rate is 99.6%
Poverty Alleviation Program
The members have accumulated more than 96 million taka as group savings, an
increasing amount of this saving is being utilized by the members for productive purposes
(IGAs). A large number of members were given wide varieties of social/human development
and skill development training by the project which includes, among others, family laws
and woman issues, leadership development and adult literacy. The project also invested a
sum of Taka 1156.20 million as loan to 133000 beneficiaries and the recovery rate is 99.6%
