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Concept Paper of BRDP
Concept Paper of BRDP
Concept Paper of BRDP
GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
PLANNING COMMISSION
CONCEPT PAPER
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PAKISTAN PLANNING COMMISSION
PROPOSAL FOR PROJECT CONCEPT CLEARANCE
Sector:
Sub Sector:
2. Sponsoring Agency:
Government of the Punjab, Planning & Development
Department, Lahore.
3. Executing Agency:
i). PMU – Bahawalpur Rural Development Project
ii). Communities through Communities Organizations.
4. Location:
5. Time schedule:
Rationale
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The project area comprises of Bahawalpur,
Bahawalnagar & Rahim yar Khan Districts. These are the
least developed districts in Punjab. Surveys of rural
communities in these districts revealed that the most
significant problem was perceived to be the lack of
critical, social and economic infrastructure at the village
level, irrigation water, dilapidated infrastructure & access
to justice. The quality of life was found to be very poor
with inadequate health, education, and other services.
Women identified the lack of water for irrigation &
household use, sanitation, access to health services, and
roads network as major problems. The rural poor also
considered it important to rehabilitate other infrastructure
facilities e.g. community buildings, water supply and
culverts etc. This situation needs to be improved by
appropriate rural development initiatives which should
respond to the perceived needs of the community and
their capacity to implement and maintain. Complementary
investments are needed in the Project area to improve
agricultural, livestock, and small enterprise productivity to
improve the quality of village life.
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impact on lives of rural population is quite visible. The
project achieved 166 % of its originally envisaged targets
while remaining within the same loan amount. ADB
project completion report issued in December 2008
acknowledged that project remained successful, efficient,
relevant and effective. The performance of PMU was
rated as highly satisfactory.
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Main Objectives of the Project
Scope
The Project’s scope includes women development,
rural sanitation, community training and institutional
support. The Project is designed as demand-driven, i.e.
responding to the perceived needs of the community. The
Project will be implemented using a process approach
and selection criteria to ensure responsiveness to the
needs of communities. The selection criteria will ensure
that the poverty reduction objective is met.
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Project components
The physical targets proposed under Bahawapur
Rural Development Project include
Communal Agricultural
6 (No) 15 15.00
implements
PMU 50.00
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Rural sanitation
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These groups will manage to get mutated a piece of
land in the name women organization. A building
which will have a training hall and one office room will
be constructed along with boundary wall. Certain
machines as per the requirement of women
organization will be provided to center which may
include simple sewing machines, rita machines,
computerized embroidery machines etc. supporting
furniture will also be provided to these centers. These
centers will serve as hub of women activities in the
area. These will launch training courses for various
skills and will also help rural women for marketing of
their products. Typical local crafts will also get
promoted through these centers.
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proposed that communities of specific locations where
the severity of problem is high may be mobilized and
linked with fertilizer manufacturing companies for
providing dealership. Same mechanism can be utilized
for easy access to seed. Through these fertilizer and
seed banks, supply of quality seed and fertilizer may be
ensured among the poor. Timely availability and easy
access to both these key inputs will have a significant
contribution in enhancing the productivity of all crops.
Under current project 10 fertilizer and seed banks will be
established on trial basis.
5. Community Trainings
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communities at their door step by using available
institutional and non-institutional resources. Non-
institutional resources may include the skilled workers
of various trades who are engaged in rural areas like
electrician, plumber, artisan, mobile repairing
technicians, motorcycle mechanic, welder, sweet
maker etc. Buildings of BRDP funded community
enterprises and women development centers may also
be utilized for the purpose. Ultimate objective of these
trainings is to produce a skilled lot of rural workers
who will be able to enhance their earnings while
working on various on-farm and off-farm trades but in
rural areas.
6. Rural Infrastructure
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poor can never think of owning a piece of land. Even its
rent is too high that it is beyond the capacity of poor.
Hence this factor critically curtailing the economic
opportunities of poor families who are engaging in
farming since generations. Now they just have to rely on
tenancy for survival of their families. IFAD is interested in
improving access to land for poor through utilizing the
available government land. BRDP has proposed another
option for improving access of poor to land. Under this
model, a community organization of landless or very
small farmers will be formed who will get a big piece of
land on rent which may range from 50-100 acres on the
platform of that community organization and then they will
distribute this land on subsidized lease terms among their
community members. This will be an alternative strategy
for improving access to land where government land is
unavailable. Under this component 1000 acres of land will
be leased through community platforms.
Institutional Support
7. Period of Implementation:
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i) Planned Commencement
date: 01-07-2009
30-06-2010
9. Financing Plan:
i) Government Contribution:
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Material (Specify items)
iii) Training
Status of PC-I
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