A Bay of Bengal Programme training officer meeting with women in a Bangladesh fishing village to explain how they can receive credit and how they should manage it. The BOBP project in Bangladesh has been helping women in several villages in the coastal d - - Bay of Bengal Programme: GCP/RAS/118/MUL (BOBP). The Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP), started in 1979 with headquarters in Madras, India, seeks to help small-scale fisherfolk in seven countries (Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand). The BOBP develops, demonstrates and pr