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this evaluation focuses on the impact of danida-supported aquaculture interventions in Bangladesh from 1989 to 2006, with regard to income, living standards, health and women's empowerment. further, the evaluation contains an analysis of the channels through which these impacts have occurred and of the determinants of change. the evaluation had to work with limited baseline data, and is based on data from available surveys and databases, as well as a number of site visits, workshops, interviews and focus groups discussion. the overall conclusion of the evaluation is that the danida-supported interventions successfully achieved their goal: an increase in the value of fish production from aquaculture, and to some extent increased sub-sector employment, resulting in an improvement of the socioeconomic position and physical well-being of participating households. in addition, the interventions enabled and supported a period of unprecedented growth in aquaculture production in Bangladesh that affected participants and non-participants alike.