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IUCN Bangladesh has undertaken this initiative in association with Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) under the Sustainable Environment Management Programme (SEMP) in the Madhumati Floodplain. Under this project one of the interventions is to promote alternative livelihood options.

The present report compiles the awareness raising initiatives take under the Community Based Floodplain Resource Management Project, a component of the SEMP.

This approach for project piloting also considered sustainability issues for each and every individual activity through participation of Community Based Organizations formed under the project.

In this report, focus has been given to a range of related themes. It examines the household situation with regard to accessing different types of food, and sheds light on inequality pervading the households, perceived in terms of their control over resources such as land or food.

The present publication registers a brief delineation of actions fielded for wetland’s resource management with the local communities under the SEMP components till June 2005. In some case the reporting time vary which is duly mentioned.