CVDP Success Story
Comprehensive Village Development Programme(CVDP)
( `One village One cooperative’ model )
Background
Cooperative movement begun in this country formally in 1904 through cooperative law. In the decade of sixty, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) developed two-tier cooperative system and added a new dimension to cooperative movement in this country.
The overall development of village is said at the beginning through two-tier cooperative. But as the agriculture was given priority by societies in implementing ‘grow more food’ policy, as per the priorities of the erstwhile Government, so the societies were developed very reasonably as Farmbased Cooperative Society in a predominately agrarian country. Consequently, a significant number of villagers remained outside the facility of the organization. To overcome this situation women and destitute (Men/Women) cooperative societies developed under the initiative of private organizations. As a result, in view of the formation of various village organizations in a village , a village has been divided into many parties/factions, consequently partisanship has developed in the place of unity and cohesion, disparity has taken the place of equality and assistancedependant mentality has been observed in the place of financial self-sufficiency.
The main drawback of Comilla Model was the failure to implement the priority programmes like Creation of personal and collective fund, Creation of an organized rural society, Employment generation for the landless, Development of effective method for reaching government services.
The failure is considered to be one of the “Missing Link” of the Comilla Model. To fill up the missing link , BARD started work through “Total Village Development Programme (TVDP) with a view to examining the idea of “One village one organization” since 1975 and carried out the project by phases of it’s own resources till 1988 in a limited scale . After that, this was adopted in the thirdfive year plan
( `One village One cooperative’ model )
Background
Cooperative movement begun in this country formally in 1904 through cooperative law. In the decade of sixty, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) developed two-tier cooperative system and added a new dimension to cooperative movement in this country.
The overall development of village is said at the beginning through two-tier cooperative. But as the agriculture was given priority by societies in implementing ‘grow more food’ policy, as per the priorities of the erstwhile Government, so the societies were developed very reasonably as Farmbased Cooperative Society in a predominately agrarian country. Consequently, a significant number of villagers remained outside the facility of the organization. To overcome this situation women and destitute (Men/Women) cooperative societies developed under the initiative of private organizations. As a result, in view of the formation of various village organizations in a village , a village has been divided into many parties/factions, consequently partisanship has developed in the place of unity and cohesion, disparity has taken the place of equality and assistancedependant mentality has been observed in the place of financial self-sufficiency.
The main drawback of Comilla Model was the failure to implement the priority programmes like Creation of personal and collective fund, Creation of an organized rural society, Employment generation for the landless, Development of effective method for reaching government services.
The failure is considered to be one of the “Missing Link” of the Comilla Model. To fill up the missing link , BARD started work through “Total Village Development Programme (TVDP) with a view to examining the idea of “One village one organization” since 1975 and carried out the project by phases of it’s own resources till 1988 in a limited scale . After that, this was adopted in the thirdfive year plan