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“Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD)”

Presentation Topic

•Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Comilla is internationally acclaimed for its many innovative works in the field of rural development in Bangladesh. The Comilla Approach to Rural Development, which is, in fact, a package of mutually supportive development models produced lasting impacts on changing the lives and living environment of the rural poor. BARD experiences in the arenas of training, research and action research could be shared by all countries and people engaged in rural development.

Introduction

Chapter: 01

Origin of the reportReport writing is a part of our M.B.A program. At the end of our semester M.B.A program we have to complete this Report writing. We have completed our Report writing from Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development. Our report is the result of this program. To relate our academic knowledge with that of realistic group, internship plays a very important role for the study. Here we get experiences & know how about the application of the practical knowledge to the practical group & also the deviation of the facts from the theoretical knowledge .

Chapter: 01

Objectives:

 Broad Objective:The broad objective of this report is to Exploring the Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development.  

Specific Objectives:▪To find out the internal and external training program of Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development.▪To identify the manpower of Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development.▪To identify the depth of knowledge of the employee who serve.▪How Planning deals with future course of action of pre-determined goals? ▪How Organizing helps to achievement of organizational goal. ▪To know their Training facilities for various training program..

Chapter: 02

LITERATURE REVIEW:

Over time the Academy has also expanded international contact and undertaken collaborative research with various development organizations. During last 54 years Michigan State University, Harvard University, Gottingen University, Bath University, Upsala University, Kyoto University, Comilla University, Population Council, ICOMP, APDC, FAO, UNDP, UNESCO,IDRC, JICA and CIRDAP have become the major international research collaborators. BARD is very closely linked with the Center for Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) and acts as its National IRD Centre for Bangladesh. It is also working as the National Liaison Center for SAARC in the field of rural development.

Chapter: 02

Methodology of the Study:

Population: The population of this research project is defined as fallow: Sample Frame: Individual clients of BARD (Kutbari) for solving their different types of problem and some number of employee. Sample Size: To conduct this research I have taken my sample as a simple random sampling, those who are related to BARD. Data sources: a.Primary Data Sources: b.Secondary Data Sources: Data collection Method: Relevant data for this report will be collected primarily by direct investigations of different records, papers, documents, operational process and different personnel.

Data Processing: Respondents function, situation, experience, preference, attitude, behavior, satisfaction level.

Chapter: 02

Limitation of the report:

 . Less than One-month time is not enough for such an extensive work of the study. It is very difficult to collect all the required information in such a short period.

Due to some legal obligation and business security Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development restricts some data not to be published publicly. For this reason, the study limits only on the available and published data and certain

The employees are very busy with their jobs, which lead to little time to consult with us.

Degree of formal and informal interview. Non-Probability technique has been used.

Company overview

•The Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development – BARD. The academy is located in Kotbari area under Comilla district. Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan, who is the founder of BARD, is well known in Asia and the world for his distinguished leadership of the Rural Development Academy and the Rural Development Experiments at Comilla, Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Comilla is internationally renowned for its various innovative works in the field of rural development in Bangladesh. The Comilla Approach to Rural Development, which is, in fact, a package of mutually supportive development models produced lasting impacts on changing the lives and living environment of the rural poor. On 27th May 2009, BARD celebrated its Golden Jubilee. It has more than 53 years of experiences in the arenas of training, research and action research which could be shared by other countries and people engaged in rural development around the world.

Chapter: 03

Training:

BARD has accumulated vast experience in the field of training. Every year BARD organizes 150 training courses on an average. It has also developed 30 training modules under the broad category of rural development. Various groups of national and international clientele have already participated in training courses on these modules. These courses are offered on request with a reasonable budget. Requests for organizing training courses are to be made to Director General, BARD.

Chapter: 03

Training facilities in BARD:

 .The Academy is a designated national training institute in Bangladesh including both officials and non-officials.

Officials comprise civil servants, officers of nation building departments and international participants of development sector organizations etc.Non-officials are local councilors, local leaders, and members of co-operatives. Students of educational institutions, member of voluntary organizations etc.Besides, a large number of imitational clientele including students, scholars, consultants, government officials, members of diplomatic corps and imitational agencies visit the Academy regularly.

Chapter: 03

Action Research:

The Academy is continuously searching out new models of rural development. Therefore, it is conducting experiments in different areas. Some of these are:1. Women's Education, Income and Nutrition Improvement (WEINI) Project:Since 1962, women in the Comilla villages are being organised in cooperatives so that they can get the facilities of training and services on capital formation, credit operation, kitchen gardening, knitting and sewing and other income generating activities.

2. Developing a Regular Local Level Poverty Monitoring System (LLPMS) in Bangladesh:Under MIMAP-Bangladesh, the Poverty Monitoring System developed and tested the methodology and the indicators for a local level poverty monitoring system (LLPMS). The experimentation was carried out by BARD in consultation with the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). 3. Technical Cooperative activity to improve sanitation at rural area in Bangladesh focusing on dissemination and awareness raising:

Chapter: 04

Major Finding

Good in-house training programmers have produced credible staff.

Extensive grassroots coverage with district- and/or village-level representation.

Limited financial resources: more than 75 percent of budget goes on salaries; very little left for operational costs.

Political pressure to extend the geographic range of interventions designed for specific locations creates problems for programmer management and sustainability.

Poor logistical support: no transport and equipment. Bureaucracy and long channels of communication Technical weaknesses. Unstable macroeconomic and political environment. New skills may never be used because of lacking

capital..

SWOT Analysis of BARD

SWOT Analysis of BARD

Strengths: •Highly qualified, competent and experienced personnel and Good in-house training programmers have produced credible staff.•Extensive grassroots coverage with district- and/or village-level representation.•Public research system has a broad spectrum of researchers.Weaknesses: •Limited financial resources and Poor logistical support: no transport and equipment.•Bureaucracy and long channels of communication and Counterproductive policies Opportunities: •Improved collaboration and efficiency through department mergers.•Collaboration opportunities among line ministries, departments and other system actors.•Potential for improved effectiveness and efficiency through transformations Threats: •Political pressure to extend the geographic range of interventions designed for specific locations creates problems for programmer management and sustainability.•Inadequate budgets are declining in real terms (inflation) and •Retrenchments usually start at the bottom with the community service providers.•New skills may never be used because of lacking capital.

Chapter: 05

RECOMMENDATION

Improved collaboration and efficiency through department mergers.

Training is there best part so they can increase it . Potential for improved effectiveness and efficiency

through transformations (e.g. commercialization and cost recovery programs).

Try to stable macroeconomic and political environment into the organization

Need to improve communication availability. To achieve goal they can increase logistical supports May be learn technical knowledge in new enterprises Should destroy Bureaucracy and long channels of

communication. May be they can Increase their budgets New skills may use for better performance.

Chapter: 06

Concluding Remarks

•Bangladesh has been trying to reduce rural poverty through many development projects and programs. Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development is one of such projects. To reduce rural poverty, skill development was one of the objectives of the project. That is why, training had been given on increasing skills of different levels of beneficiaries of the project. Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) organized many training programs for the project beneficiaries of the country. The success of the given training as well as the project largely depends on the engagement of this training knowledge into work. This post training utilization (PTU) study had been conducted on the sewing training course organized by BARD for the women beneficiaries of the project.

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