Economic opportunity for landless women either through homestead gardening or poultry or goat rearing linking with existing opportunities either from government or non-government organizations has created capacity to take the family level decisions especially about their children's nutrition and also children's education. Women used to use useless lands owned by the government like alongside cannel or roads with a free allocation negotiated with government departments as lease. It is also giving them opportunity to control over their income from those sources that has great impact on their respect by their family level counterpart. Women’s income has increased their mobility in the community even to market. This is the result of a project named Women Economic Empowerment through Nutritive Initiatives (WEENI) which was implemented by Plan International Bangladesh a couple of years back.
Dr. Ikhtiar Khandaker