Thousands of community people from 10 project unions have taken part to the mass campaigns on early marriage organized by the hunger project under the project associated by UN democracy fund. The project unions are in Mymensingh and Tangail district. The campaign have been combined with a number of colorful events like street drama, wall writing, debate & quiz competition, …
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Press conference held in Tangail …….
Union parishad representatives especially chairmen face journalists to focus notable best practices taken place in the five project unions under Tangail district. Basically it was a lesson learnt experience sharing. Except journalist’s local animators, women leaders, grass-root researchers, youth leaders, members of union wise distinguish citizen committee and members of district based administration & civil society. Mr. Gautam Chandra paul, …
Lesson learnt sharing session held in Mymensingh on ` MDG Unions: Building participatory democracy From the Bottom Up in rural Bangladesh’
Elected representatives, Government officials, Animators, Women leaders, Youth volunteer, Grass-root researchers, DCC, NGCAF & BNN leaders have shared the best practices and challenges what has come before them in playing their roles under the two years long project (MDG Unions: Building participatory democracy From the Bottom Up in rural Bangladesh) implemented jointly by The hunger project- Bangladesh & BRAC and …
Human existence is a gift of the tree so planting tree is indispensible for everyone Deputy Commissioner, Mymensingh
A weeklong mass campaign on tree plantation has taken place in all project unions in Mymensingh and Trangail District from 09 to 14 th august’2014 with a view to reduce exclusive environmental disaster, recover ecological balance and save human existences. The campaigns have been organized jointly by The hunger project- Bangladesh & Brac and funded by UN democracy fund. The …
Citizenship workshop held to strengthen Citizenry roles
Citizen participation is important to ensure good-governance in grass-root and citizen participation mostly depends on the level of their consciousness. We believe even grass-root people should know about the key articles of our constitution with easy & simple interpretations and meanings. They should be informed about citizen rights, duties & responsibilities of citizen, basic and human rights provided in constitution and …
UNDEF-funded project puts in Building Participatory Democracy in Rural Bangladesh
The Hunger Project Bangladesh has been implementing a two-year project, supported by UNDEF entitled ‘MDG Unions: Building Participatory Democracy from the Bottom Up in Rural Bangladesh’ since May 2013. The project is working for improving governance at local government level (the Union Parishad or UP, the lowest tier of Local Government Bodies) by building the capacity of the elected representatives …
Aakhi announces a logical battle against child marriage
Women leader Aakhi Amin has started to build mass awareness against child marriage through court yard meeting and mini campaign. To Aakhi it is a logical fight. She decided to go with the massage to every parent who has at least one girl child in her ward. As part of her mission she organized a court yard meeting regarding the …
Ward action team: a meeting place of community change makers
After the animator training there was a question from the participants what could be the process to address the local problems jointly and how they could remain united. Then in return they were asked to storming brain and try to find out a way regarding the questions. So the ward action team is a result of the collective thinking of …
Animators training held for creating MDG Union at Mymensingh
An animator training has been held in 14-17th November at the Union Parishad auditorium of Boyra Union in Mymensingh. It has been organized by Boyra Union parishad and facilitated by The Hunger project under the partnership effort along with Brac & UNDEF. Total 50 participants took part including 37 women. The training has been arranged from the strong belief that …
Ward Shava : a path to grass-root democracy
According to the constitution citizen are the owner of the republic of Bangladesh and elected representatives should be accountable to the people, similarly representatives of Union parishad also should go into the same process. But before the local government act 2009, there were no formal structure to make a representative accountable to the respective people. For the first time the …