Improving vertical infrastructure (market and collection centers) and horizontal infrastructure (roads, irrigation, and drainage systems)
Implementing Partner: Government of Bangladesh Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
USAID Investment: $15,000,000
Country Investment: $1,500,000 (10 percent)
Contact: Nazmul Bhuiyan
Adding roads, market centers, collection centers, and irrigation hectares to help communities earn more and enjoy more social benefits:
- Increasing access to extension services, quality inputs, and improved farming technology
- Supporting trading and other business services with improved access to markets to enhance agricultural production and improve cropping intensity
Creating a business-enabling environment for farmers and traders to enhance local economic development
- Creating employment and new business opportunities
- Building market centers and collection centers to facilitate commodity aggregation, sorting, grading, and trading along with improved prices and sale volumes
- Enabling transportation to be faster, safer, cheaper and year-round and improving roads to increase opportunities for income generation and improve the quality of life
- Developing local partner capacity, especially LGED
Fostering income generation opportunities:
- Increasing fish production and improving access to fish buyers to increase sales
- Enhancing involvement in family decisions and decreasing child marriages
- Reducing drop-out rates of primary school students
- Making roads safer for women to travel alone throughout the year
