Prochesta should consider Haor area as a living apace for people, where they have to earn their livelihood maintaining the natural system with all bio-diversities intact. It wants to move towards a broad view of Haor internalizing the most recent research findings and policies. As a local organization, Prochesta is determined to become a more credible organization than other.
Goal: The Haor folk gradually become a core agent to manage and sustainably live from haor resources.
Strategies
- Establish the community as direct user groups of haor resources (fisherman, land, etc.)
- Support to haor folk to implement national haor strategy
- Support to early cultivation/processing systemto prevent the harvest from flash flood
- Introduce alternative farming system (duck, veg, other crops) as an adaptation measure
- Under local level advocacy organizing communities
- Join partnership and networking with other organizations which pursue the interest of Haor folk
- Invite media to present Haor issues and livelihood challenges of the people and to mobilize support for Prochesta’s activities.
- Undertake collaborative efforts with noted national and international researchers to continue studies on Haor issues and options for the poor.
Actions to be undertaken
- Establish people’s organizations and expand to more areas
- Provide awareness of rights and improve capacity building to claim rights
- Utilize social accountability approach (community mobilization and activism) in advocacy
- Adapt and implement GoB plan of action on Haor
- Support to early cultivation and processing system (adaptation
- Utilize social accountability approach (community mobilization and activism) to access env-friendly seed varieties from GoB/ private sources.
- Undertake partnerships with agricultural scientists to develop env-friendly farming system
- Introduce appropriate harvesting technology and promote small entrepreneurs as service providers
