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{"title":"ASSESSING IMPACT OF 'AMAR BARI AMAR KHAMAR' PROJECT ON POVERTY REDUCTION: A CASE STUDY ON DIGHALIA UP AZILLA, KHULNA","authors":"Sharfan Upaul, Anika Ibnat Chowdhury, S.K. Farjana Faruk Nitu","doi":"10.54470/planplus.v10i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54470/planplus.v10i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"The study attempts to assess the “Amar Bari Amar Khamar (ABAK)” project's criteria strategically. The ABAK project targets poverty in Bangladesh, and strategies are the economic development of the rural areas and develop social and women empowering conditions. The assessment would be a fruitful way to indicate the underlying factors and the magnitude of the project's succession in livelihood outcomes. The impact and change in the post-project period had been signified through the factors of the livelihood framework. A field survey was done through a questionnaire to collect the research data. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were done; the pear sample t-test was used to identity the change, and the multiple regress ion model and indices were used to measure poverty. Income sectors were found changed from agricultural to non-agricultural based. Despite all positive changes to the capital assets, the project had limited success in poverty reduction. Savings and women empowerment were prominent in the post-project period. A user- friendly loaning policy will help to gain the ultimate success in poverty reduction in the vulnerability context.","PeriodicalId":117598,"journal":{"name":"PLAN PLUS","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130376198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"HEALTH COST OF PESTICIDE USE ON RICE CULTIVATION IN THE SOUTH-WEST REGION OF BANGLADESH","authors":"Fariha Farjana, Jahangir Polash, Sabiha Ferdousy","doi":"10.54470/planplus.v10i1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54470/planplus.v10i1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The study concentrates on assessing health hazards caused by pesticide spray in rice cultivation in the South-west region of Bangladesh. The data particularized that the probability of facing discomfort due to pesticide exposure is 79 percent. The cost-of-illness (Mitigation cost and income loss due to sickness) and avertive action are considered to estimate pesticide use costs. For health cost estimation, a household survey on rice fanners was conducted. The data were collected through an interview method by using a well-structured questionnaire. Logit, Probit, Poission regression, and Negative binomial regression models have been applied in this study. The predicted probability of falling sick from pesticide-related symptoms is significantly higher among individuals who apply pesticides with high chemical concentrations. For both the logit and probit models, it is statistically significant at a 5 percent significance level. On the other hand, an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) application, first aid knowledge, avertive action, treatment facilities, and knowledge level help reduce the probability of diseases caused by pesticide exposure. Finally, the study finds BDT 5273 per person per season as the health cost for pesticide application-oriented health hazard.","PeriodicalId":117598,"journal":{"name":"PLAN PLUS","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132873341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"POTENTIALS OF PUBLIC BICYCLE HIRE SCHEME (BHS) IN DHAKA CITY","authors":"M. Rahman, Lameya Shams","doi":"10.54470/planplus.v10i1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54470/planplus.v10i1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Bicycle hire schemes (BHS) or public bike-sharing scheme (PBSS) are now available in many cities in different countries. However, until 2018 there was no such scheme in Bangladesh. This paper aims to assess the feasibility of implementing BHS in Dhaka city and the major issues that need to be considered for operation and management of BHS. In this study the already existing BHS in six cities in different countries were studied and relevant documents were reviewed to understand the salient features of the scheme as well as the overall operating and management system. Upon understanding of the critical aspects of the BHS from those six cities, the implementation process and tasks required for BHS was assessed with the existing conditions in Dhaka city. A detailed plan of BHS for the case study location was prepared. Questionnaire surveys of bicyclists were conducted to understand their opinions and views about the proposed BHS. Analysis of the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of the proposed BHS was done. Findings of this research could be helpful for implementing BHS in case study location as well as in other areas of Dhaka city and in other similar cities of Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":117598,"journal":{"name":"PLAN PLUS","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115356392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PHYSICAL UPGRADING OF HOUSING IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: PRIORITIES FOR THE EXTREME POOR","authors":"S. S. Hakim, Md. Azharul Lslam, Asrafi Bintay Akram, Hridita Podder Deepa, Nilufar Shabnom Doni, Ishmat Ara, N. Debnath","doi":"10.54470/planplus.v10i1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54470/planplus.v10i1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Informal settlements are home to nearly a quarter of global urban population - many of which are extreme poor. Prompted by both local and global initiatives and executed by donors and NGOs, these settlements have been undergoing infrastructural upgrading for the past 4-5 decades. Yet, the number of extreme poor and their settlements increased, while their overall livelihood situation remained unchanged. Hence, one becomes skeptical about the usefulness of these mostly settlement-level infrastructural upgrading works and asks about their right focus. Infrastructural development often also appear less useful for this group as their priorities are guided by market-led principles - planned and executed in a top down manner, while at the ground level, the extreme poor people having to deal with other 'smaller' housing and non-housing issues at the household/dwelling level. In the physical upgrading of informal settlements, extreme poor dwellers' such 'smaller' needs are therefore seldom prioritized. But being aware of these peoples' exact needs and priorities, and their inabilities to afford dwelling upgrading and their non-housing livelihood needs governing their priorities, we would still like to underscore if some contextual housing priorities can still be identified for future upgrading works. But in the broader context, we would also like to see why uncritical and un-contextual housing interventions are still conceptualized without considering extreme poor's needs? We used a case study approach for this research and studied two extreme poor settlements in Khulna, Bangladesh. We found that no intervention so far prioritized the dwelling-unit with the goal to improving their livelihoods. Key constraints behind this were the lack of tenure security, chronic exposure to natural hazards, high renter-owner ratio, not enough investments in non-monetary livelihood dimensions, and missing HBE components in housing credit. Issues regarding beneficiary selection, appreciation of extreme poor peoples' capacities and practices, prioritizing non-housing needs, absence of incremental upgrading schemes and housing not being considered as key livelihood instrument also compounded the matter. We realized that market-driven neoliberal principles that advocate state withdrawal and privatization had played a key role in setting priorities for the donors, NGOs and even local government bodies. We suggested that physical upgrading priority for the extreme poor should hence be set in two mutually dependent fronts. One, a continuation of UPPR's partnership approach should be ensured, supplemented by subsidies. This needs to be extended more into housing/dwelling levels. For the poorest and the most vulnerable, greater presences of Government in providing social safety nets also need to be provisioned simultaneously. Two, livelihood dimensions need to be mainstreamed and integrated with all housing and non-housing upgrading.","PeriodicalId":117598,"journal":{"name":"PLAN PLUS","volume":"488 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127721829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}