Problem overview:

     Integrating stakeholders: There are basically two main stakeholders involved in the programme, the Gono Unnayan Prochesta and the people, whom are the poor communities of Bangladesh that GUP focuses on helping.

     Training and educational initiatives: The Gono Unnayan Prochesta believes in capacity building so that the poor or the disadvantaged can become powerful enough to sustain themselves, which is through various job training and skill improvement programmes.

Background in summary:

     The concepts behind GUP: Gono Unnayan Prochesta (GUP) can be translated as "People's Development Efforts" and reflects GUP's focus on community self-help within the context of the larger development effort in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. GUP also recognizes that no person lives in isolation from the rest of his or her community, hence the development of the individual person is intimately bound up with that of the community.

     With the basic premise, GUP seeks to facilitate the process by:

• Enabling people to identify problems and solutions for themselves
  
  
• Consensus building to increase the individual persons' strength and decision making power
  
  
• Stimulating cooperative efforts to mobilize resources and capital in the community
  
  
• Promoting human rights
  
  
• Assisting the development of disadvantaged groups and in introducing innovative people's development

     One example of accomplishment: Since 1973, GUP Agriculture and Ecology programme seeks to make agriculture a year around activity in single crop farming areas with the aim of reducing rural poverty and malnutrition. Approximately 143,400 people are involved in a number of major activities including afforestation, organic farming, producer cooperatives, etc. As farmers learn to use the new techniques GUP drops back progressively to a friendly advisory role.

Peer Review Committee Good practice rating: (1 for the best, 5 for the lowest score)
Sustainability		Efficiency
1	Improvement in either the environment of economic condition with no harm to the other.	1	Cost efficient.
1	Sustainable over time (not one-off)	Process
Adaptability		1	Participation of the community
2	Location adaptability (can the project be done in other places?)	1	Participation of resource owners/users
2	Socio-cultural adaptability.	1	Partnerships between various actors (Governments, NGO, Academia, Private)
2	Level of development adaptability.	1	Degree of coordination and cooperation between government departments.
2	Style of government adaptability.	1	Ability to attract political interest/support
2	Degree of decentralization adaptability.	1	Procedures for feedback and review.
Comments on this example:      The Gono Unnayan Prochesta could be applied to community forests in other countries, where, conceptually, forest communities are living sustainably with the forests. Outside support helps strengthen the communitys ability to be more self-reliance, however, as mentioned in the text, support should be kept minimal. Sustainability of the project:   Adaptability of the project to other situations:       The GUP offers a range of ideas and methods that can be adapted to poor communities throughout the region. Process of decision making and implementation:   Cost efficiency: