Islam, Md.Nurul and Abdullah, Nik Mustapha Raja and Viswanathan, K.Kuperan and Yew, Tai Shzee (2006) Augmenting fishers' welfare and livelihood assets through community based management in Bangladesh. Digital Library of the Commons, Indiana.
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This study investigates the impact of Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) on fishing households' welfare in Bangladesh by examining how the various types of livelihood assets contribute to household incomes. The CBFM projects have been implemented in Bangladesh since 1995, through the partnership of Department of Fisheries (government organization), 9 NGOs and the WorldFish Center, with about 113 waterbodies and more than 23,000 households living around the project sites. The major objective of CBFM is to establish local fishery community organizations by providing credit facilities, training and by promoting social awareness with an aim to enhance poor fishers' capability of greater access to their livelihood assets. The study found that fishers in CBFM areas have improved their access to different assets including social, human, physical, financial and natural capitals. The regression results show that the contribution of social capital is significant to household income, indicating that social factors play very important roles in poverty alleviation in Bangladesh. Future poverty alleviation policy options need to give priority to investments in human, physical and natural capital assets.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Class Number: | 500.AUG001 |
| Keywords: | Bangladesh, Fishing Communities, Welfare, Community Based Management, Livelihood, Poverty, Social Development, Training, Inland Fisheries |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2022 05:36 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2022 05:48 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/10063 |
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