   Village Development Committee has potentials for alternate leadership at the village level.

  Hardcore poor, women and disadvantaged groups of the community are capable of playing leadership role in community development.

  The Villagers are capable of identifying their problems and also implementation of community sub-projects.

  The village people though poor, come forward for cash contribution for community sub-projects, provided they have been appropriately motivated.

  Majority of the 12,000 NGOs of our country work on micro-credit distribution but they find a huge number of hardcore poor not eligible for micro credit.

   When the people become aware, they come forward for establishing their rights.

Learning from Rural piped water supply

  Demand for pipe water supply is reasonably high in the rural areas. This is partly because of arsenic contamination of large number of shallow tube wells in the country;

  The Community has conceived benefit of running water in kitchen and toilets for household activities including safe drinking water;

  The Community is used to pay electricity charge from Tk. 100-200 in general; During consultative process, the villagers indicated to pay similar charge for piped water supply per month as water tariff.

  The Community is also agreeable to bear the upfront contribution for pipe connection fee from the water main (Taka 500-1500).

  Community agreed to execute an agreement with Sponsor for upfront contribution and payment of monthly tariff;

   Monthly tariff setting demands cross subsidy arrangement to include vulnerable House Holds