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Bangladesh Rural Development Board ( BRDB )
Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) has been working as the biggest
agency responsible for operation of micro-credit program as well as social
mobilization work. The priorities and strategies of BRDB include a) improving the
access of the rural poor, particularly women to productive resources through social
mobilization, training, special credit programs and rural institution building, b)
support for off-farm domestic capital formation.
The Comilla cooperative based organisational structure of the 1960s named

COMILLA DISTRICT INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
(CDIRDP), has undergone an evolutionary phase of development through
INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (IRDP) in the 1970s,
reaching its current status and got the recognition as a body named BRDB. IRDP was
transformed into BRDB in 1980s through an ordinance.
BRDB is an autonomous institution, governed by a Board of Governors of which the

Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives is the
Chairperson. BRDB has achieved success in organising woman and male members of
the cooperatives/non-formal groups, creating their own capital through mobilising
their small savings, supply of irrigation equipments, training on modern agricultural
cultivation and making provision for agricultural and small credit. The Board has
taken a pioneering role in initiating self-employment projects through training on
income generation activities. It has also promoted the cause of poverty reduction and
rural development by taking up or supporting family planning, adult literacy, women’s
empowerment through ensuring their rights, tree plantation and nursery, improved
hearth, physical infrastructure development and such other projects.
Department of Cooperatives ( DOC )
Cooperative movement is active in this part of the globe for over a century in a
varying texture of its operation. The focus of the movement is socio-economic
development through employment generation and poverty alleviation. The
Department of Cooperative (DOC) is the principal government organization
responsible for the promotion & development of cooperative societies in Bangladesh.
The DOC works directly under the supervision and control of the Rural Development
& Cooperative Division (RDCD) of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural
Development & Cooperatives. Broadly, DOC carries out the following responsibilities
and functions,
- registration of cooperative societies,
- undertake annual audit of cooperative societies,
- formulate policies pertaining to administration and management of cooperative

movement and keep it updated with the changing expressed needs of the stakeholders,
- ensure compliance of cooperative rules and regulations,
- administration of DOC, - organise regular training courses for the officers and
employees of the Directorate, cooperative society members and salaried personnel,
- collate, preserve data on cooperatives and publish them,
- plan and direct promotional, publication and expansion programmes on cooperatives,
- formulate and implement development plans and projects with the approval of the
government .
There are 150,964 registered cooperative societies in the country (June 2005), out of
those 21 are national societies, 1,086 central societies, and 149,857 primary societies.
The number of members of primary societies is 7,791,328. These societies have
created a fund under different categories amounting to Taka 1064 crore (June 2005).
During the same period the amount of effective capital of these societies stood at Taka
3,175 crore.
The DOC is headed by a Registrar, who is a civil servant not below the rank of a Joint
Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh. There are four Additional Registers
below the Registrar. There are four Divisional Cooperative offices (at Dhaka,
Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna) throughout the country. Each of these offices is
headed by a Divisional Joint Registrar. There are sixty four District Cooperative
Offices throughout the country. Each of the districts is headed by a District
Cooperative Officer, who is the registering authority of all Primary Cooperative
Societies under that district. Furthermore, there are cooperative offices at each of the
479 Upazilas throughout the country. There is a National Cooperative Academy and 9
(nine) Cooperative Zonal Training Institutes under the DOC at various locations of the
country.
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development ( BARD )
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) was established, initially, to

train the personnel of V-AID (Village – Agricultural and Industrial Development)
Programme in 1959 by the then -government at Comilla. Gradually, through its epoch-
making action research and research activities in the field of rural development,
BARD has earned its name and fame nationally and internationally. The model of
rural development that BARD came up with its known - Comilla Model or Comilla
Approach (CA) of rural development. CA consists of main four components: Rural
Works Programme (RWP), Thana Irrigation Programme (TIP), Two-tier Cooperatives
and coordinated rural governance system, that was initially named TTDC (Thana
Training and Development Centre).
Since its inception in 1959, BARD has been taking up valuable role in formulation
and/or revision of national rural development policy based on empirical data derived
through research and action research and received National Award in 1986 for its
remarkable contribution in Rural Development
BARD is working relentlessly providing expert human resources for rural

development through its training courses. It is enabling various national, international
research institutes and entrepreneurs conduct research and training, organise seminar,
workshop and open discussion through sharing its years of professional experience.
BARD is contributing immensely for rural development by adding continuously
experimenting with development paradigms and coming up with successful models
e.g.
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) is located at Kotbari, a rural

area along the Mainamati-Lalmai (one of the archeological sites of Bangladesh) hill
range in Comilla district. It is about 100 kilometers away from the capital city of
Dhaka. The sprawling campus covers an area of 156 acres of land including
undulating hilly terrain and valleys.
It is an autonomous institution governed by a Board of Governors(BoG) of which the

Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives is the
Chairperson. Administratively, it is attached to the Rural Development and
Cooperatives Division.
The activities of the Academy carry out by its Faculty working in 9 Divisions, each of
which is headed by a Director. The Divisions are divided into two broad categories:
Service Divisions and Academic Divisions.
The Service Divisions include Training; Research; Project; and Administration. The
Academic Divisions are Rural Administration and Local Government; Rural
Economics and Management; Rural Education and Social Development; Rural
Sociology and Demography; and Agriculture and Environment.
Rural Development Academy ( RDA ), Bogra
Rural Development Academy (RDA), Bogra, was established in June 1974 as a

specialised national institution for providing training, undertaking research for
generation of innovative ideas, feed policy formulation, and undertaking action
research for evolving new generation of development paradigms. Over its existence of
more than three decades, RDA has been able to create some path breaking innovations
and a competent cadre of professionals in the field of rural development. As
recognition of its contribution in the field of rural development, RDA has been
awarded nationally and internationally. RDA achieved the much-coveted ‘Swadhinata
Padak’(Independence Award) in 2004, for the extra-ordinary contribution in rural
development. It also received International Communication Award 2004, from IVCA
London, for developing effective rural communication model. Some of the more
recognised and recorded models of RDA are:
- irrigation command area development through buried pipe, innovation of multi-
purpose use of low cost DTW,
- development of arsenic-free safe water supply plant, creation of additional

employment,
- increase in marginal productivity of labour in rural economic activities and poverty

alleviation through irrigation and water management, development of technical
protocol for commercial hybrid maize seed production in Bangladesh,
- women-led seed business project ,
- water saving technology for rice cultivation, and
- Comprehensive Village Development Programme (CVDP) along with BARD and

DoC.
RDA is an autonomous institution and its governing body is the Board of Governors
(BoG) headed by the Honourable Advisor/Minister in-charge of Local Government,
Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD&C). As a linkage to the Government of
Bangladesh, RDA is within the administrative jurisdiction of the Rural Development
and Cooperatives Division (RDCD) of the Ministry of LGRD & C.

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Bangladesh Rural Development Board ( BRDB )

The Comilla cooperative based organisational structure of the 1960s named

BRDB is an autonomous institution, governed by a Board of Governors of which the

Department of Cooperatives ( DOC )

- registration of cooperative societies,

- undertake annual audit of cooperative societies,

- formulate policies pertaining to administration and management of cooperative

- collate, preserve data on cooperatives and publish them,

- plan and direct promotional, publication and expansion programmes on cooperatives,

Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development ( BARD )

Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) was established, initially, to

BARD is working relentlessly providing expert human resources for rural

Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) is located at Kotbari, a rural

It is an autonomous institution governed by a Board of Governors(BoG) of which the

Rural Development Academy ( RDA ), Bogra

Rural Development Academy (RDA), Bogra, was established in June 1974 as a

- development of arsenic-free safe water supply plant, creation of additional

- increase in marginal productivity of labour in rural economic activities and poverty

- women-led seed business project ,

- water saving technology for rice cultivation, and

- Comprehensive Village Development Programme (CVDP) along with BARD and

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