Experiences
Local Level Governance :
- Citizen's have interest and scope to participate in Union Parishad activities.
- The aware grassroots people can play their roles in making the LG accountable and transparent.
- Joint initiatives of Local Elected Bodies (LEBs) and Citizens have increased tax collection remarkably.
- Citizens show unity to get and bargain for local level services.
- Interaction between the LEBs and the Citizen leaders has increased. LEBs efficiency towards UP & management is increasing.
- LEBs show non-partisan attitude for policy reform and ending bureaucratic control over UP.
- Popular LEBs can maintain community harmony through local arbitration. National level UP Networking can play vital role in policy reform of local government.
- There is a demand for political/democratic education by the grassroots male-female.
Women Political Empowerment:
- Without any service delivery or micro-financing NGO can develop right-based women organization at local government level.
- Without any service delivery or micro-financing NGO can develop right-based women organization at local government level.
- Organized women leadership can be elected at Union Parishad and various local level committees.
Local level women organization can ensure prevention of violence against women and also can protest against any violence. - Women organization play important role in arbitration in favor of poor women and children victims.
Interaction between the women leaders and LEBs ensure local services for the women and vulnerable community. - Women organizations can support issue based awareness campaign at the grassroots level.
- Women leaders can contest in general seats of Union Parishads against male candidacy.
- The women leaders take part in various social initiatives as development change agents.
Violence against Women and Children:
- Gender awareness at school and college level can reduce teasing and harassment.
- Protest by the women and media campaign assist in getting justice for victims.
- Grassroots women are interested to get united against Domestic Violence.
- At the Union level male-female support group can reduce violence against women and children.
Anti-trafficking:
- It is essential to initiate activities at source level to combat trafficking of women and children
- At the border belt joint initiatives from the LEBs, Civil society and NGOs at the UP level can effectively combat rafficking.
- Cross-border GO-NGO initiatives need to get started in combating trafficking.
Environment and Disaster Management :
- Folk media awareness campaign makes grassroots people responsive to the conservation of the environment.
- Civil society and forest users' initiatives can reduce corruption in Sundarbans sector.
- Special Day observation (Sundarban day) and media campaign has great role in the conservation of the Sundarbans.
- Activating Union level disaster management committees can ensure local peoples participation in disaster management and mitigation.
- Union-wise and Upazilla-wise Disaster Action Plan can reduce vulnerability in disaster prone areas.
- Theatre education at school level has vital role in ensuring quality education and reducing drop-out.
- The students will have their psycho-social development.
- The students are getting aware on child rights. Teachers and Parents are united to protect child rights.