WORKING PAPER – 1 Haor Flood Management and Livelihood Improvement Project (HFMLIP) HFMLIP-LGED ‘Livelihood Impact Assessment of Beel User Group Members’ WorldFish Bangladesh and South Asia Office Dhaka Contents List of content List of content ..................................................................................................................................................... i List of Tables ..................................................................................................................................................... ii Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................ 1 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Background .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Scope of work ................................................................................................................................................ 7 2. Methodology .................................................................................................................................................. 7 2.1 Analytical framework .............................................................................................................................. 7 2.2 Quantitative surveys................................................................................................................................. 7 2.3 Sampling .................................................................................................................................................. 8 2.4 Quality control ......................................................................................................................................... 8 2.5 Data management and analysis ................................................................................................................ 8 2.6 Livelihood profiles ................................................................................................................................... 8 2.7 Livelihood Indicators Covers ................................................................................................................... 9 3. General Demographic Characteristics ......................................................................................................... 10 3.1 Household size ....................................................................................................................................... 10 3.2 Beel User Group membership ................................................................................................................ 10 3.3 Education and literacy............................................................................................................................ 11 4. Household situation of Natural Capital ........................................................................................................ 12 4.1 Land holding pattern .............................................................................................................................. 12 5. Physical condition of household, housing, water source, sanitation and asset ownership .......................... 13 5.1 Housing Condition ................................................................................................................................. 13 5.2 Water Source .......................................................................................................................................... 15 5.3 Household sanitation .............................................................................................................................. 16 5.4 Household asset ownership .................................................................................................................... 16 6. Household financial situation ...................................................................................................................... 18 6.1 Household income profile ...................................................................................................................... 18 6.2 Household expenditure .......................................................................................................................... 20 6.3 Source of credit and it uses .................................................................................................................... 21 7. Women mobility and food security.............................................................................................................. 22 7.1 Access of women to services ................................................................................................................. 22 7.2 Household food and nutrition ................................................................................................................ 23 8. Institutional involvement ............................................................................................................................. 25 9. Training ........................................................................................................................................................ 25 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................................... 27 Annex- 1........................................................................................................................................................... 28 Annex- 2……………………………………………………………………………………………………...32 Annex- 3……………………………………………………………………………………………………...40 Annex- 4……………………………………………………………………………………………………...41 i List of figures Figure 1. The Project has been implementing in 33 Upazilas of five haor districts in the haor basins of Netrakona, Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Kishoreganj and Sunamganj. ................................................................. 6 Figure 2 Overall situation of household education .......................................................................................... 11 Figure 3. Use (%) of safe drinking water ......................................................................................................... 15 Figure 4. Yearly Income .................................................................................................................................. 19 Figure 5. Average household expenditures on food and non-food items. ....................................................... 21 List of Tables Table 1: Status of different household categories and size of household ........................................................ 10 Table 2: Membership status in general member and executive committee ..................................................... 10 Table 3: Level of education (%) in sample households (all members) in first round ...................................... 11 Table 4: Land possess by households in decimals in first round study ........................................................... 13 Table 5: Percentage of households land ownership in first round study ......................................................... 13 Table 6: Average housing, area and expenditure for house repairing of the sample households .................... 14 Table 7: Materials of walls in dwelling houses ............................................................................................... 14 Table 8: Materials of roofs in dwelling houses ................................................................................................ 14 Table 9: Use of safe drinking water in all project districts in baseline ............................................................ 15 Table 10: Source of water used for households’ chores by five districts in the baseline survey 2018 ............ 16 Table 11: Households’ sanitation condition in project area in base line survey 2018 ..................................... 16 Table 12: Average of household valuable assets by working districts in baseline .......................................... 16 Table 13: Household average annual Income (Taka) from different categories in the baseline survey from all project districts ................................................................................................................................................. 19 Table 14: Average household expenditure (Tk) by different items in first round survey ............................... 20 Table 15: Status of loan received by the sample households in 2018 ............................................................. 21 Table 16: Sources of other loan and different loan uses (unit) in five districts in 2018 .................................. 22 Table 17: Percentage of women (wife of HH head) mobility in following events by household categories in baseline ............................................................................................................................................................ 23 Table 18: Average amount of food items consumed per person/hh in 2018 ................................................... 24 Table 19: Percentage of different household categories experiencing different food shortage periods .......... 24 Table 20: Organizational involvement of