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Project Name, Duration & Budget

Donor

Goal and Objectives

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Improving Access to Justice Through Human Rights Education and Community Mediation; Period: July 2019 to June 2022; 

Budget: BDT. 69,000,000; 

1^st Year (July’19-June’20)         : 23,207,304

2^nd Year (July’20-June’21)        : 23,012,479

3^rd Year (July’21-June’22)         : 22,780,217

Working Area:

– Tangail: Kalihati Upa         : 1 Pou, 13 Uni

– Rangpur: Sadar                : 4 Un.18 ward

– Badarganj Upazila            : 11 Unions

– Pirgacha Upazila              : 09 Union

– Barisal :  Barisal Sadar: 07 Union

– Barisal: Banaripara           : 06 Unions

– Pirojpur: Kawkhali Upa: 05 Unions

– Bread for the World, Germany

– Diakonia, Sweden

Goal: The project aims to improve access to justice, especially to promote women’s rights based on the principles of equality and justice.

Objective

1. Men and women in the project areas are realizing their rights through access to gender-sensitive community mediation that ensures human rights norms and standards

2. A strengthened and trained civil society ensures and protects human rights and good governance in the project areas.

2

Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Dalits and Tackling the Poverty and Exclusion of Excluded Groups Period: Period: January’2022 to December 2024

Budget: 76,760,000

1^st Year (Janu’22 – Dec’22)         : 25,942,415

2^nd Year (Janu’23 – Dec’23)        : 24,101,745

3rd Year (Janu’21 – Dec’21)       : 26,715,839

Working Area:

 – Barisal: Barisal Sadar             : 19 Colony

– Moulavibazar: Shreemangal Upa: 09 union

– Moulavibazar: Kamalganj         : 10 Union

– Dhaka: Dhaka City Corporation: 08 Colony

– Bhola: Bhola Pouroshova: 7 union

– Khulna: Botiaghata Upa         : 07 union

– Khulna: Dakop Upa                : 06 union

– Jashore : Chaugachha Upazila: 11 union

– Jashore : Sadar Upazila          : 04 union

– Satkhria: Tala Upazila             : 12 union

– Sherpur, Sherpur Upazila       : 07 union

– Kurigram, Kurigram Sadar       : 04 union

– Bread for the World, Germany

– Foundation for a Just Society (FJS)

New York

Goal: The Dalits and excluded communities in Bangladesh are enjoying human rights and live a dignified life.

Objective:

1.      BDERM national network and the Dalit-led local CSOs use improved leadership and management competences.

2.       2. BDERM national network successfully influences Dalit rights issues at national level.

3.       3. The socio-economic livelihoods of Dalits (especially of women and children) in project regions have improved.

3

Improving Access to Education and Protection Services for Children of Women Textile Workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Period: November 2021-October 2022

Budget: 6,901,938

Working Area:

– Adabor & Mirpur, Dhaka

-Child Hope, UK

Goal: To improve access to education and health services of excluded children of women working in the garments industry in Dhaka city.

Objective:

1.    Ensure that 250 working and street children in age group 6-16 and  are provided with basic informal education, life skill and opportunities to be mainstreamed into formal schools,

2.    provide a safe place to 150 young children in the age group 2-5 to rest, play and learn while their mother go to work,

3.    Empower 2 local communities, particularly the women and children, to advocate for children’s rights through effective gender and child focused protection programmes,

4.    Promote the rights of excluded children of women garments workers.

4

Empowering Linguistic Minorities to Realize Rights on Bangladesh

Period: June 2020 to May 2022

Budget: BDT. 9,779,312

1^st Year : June’20–May’21   : 4,688,355

2^nd Year : June’21–May’22  : 5,090,957

Working Area:

– Dhaka           : Mohammadpur, Mirpur

– Chittagonj      : Bayejid & Khulshi Thana

– Nirphyamary   : Sayetpur Thaka

– Mymensingh  : Mymensingh Sadar

– Khulna                 : Khulna Sadar (Khalishpur)

– NAMATI, Washington DC

Goal: The project’s goal is to promote effective citizenship for Urdu-speaking Biharis in Bangladesh. The primary objectives of the project are to:

Objective:

1.    Build an effective model for using legal empowerment approaches, specifically community-based paralegals, to facilitate the acquisition and use of identity documents to gain access to rights and opportunities part of the core content of citizenship;

2.    Develop robust evidence on the relationship between identity documentation and statelessness, including current government practice and discrimination that may contribute to an ongoing lack of effective citizenship, despite the possession of identity documents;

3.    Encourage use of this evidence for advocacy efforts related to gaining access to effective citizenship rights, if necessary.

5

Empowering Dalit Women and Girls through Enhancing their Capacity to Access Entitlement

Period: September 2020-February 2022

Budget: BDT. 8,482,000

1^st Year (Sep’20 – Aug’21): 6,297,329

2^nd Year (Sep’21 – Feb’22): 2,184,671

Working Area:

 – Dhaka City Corporation

 (North and South)              : 15 Colony

 – Narayanganj                        : 10 Colony

Foundation for a Just Society (FJS)

New York

Goals and objectives:

The overarching goal of the program would be to empower Dalit women and girls in Bangladesh through promoting rights and strengthening their leadership capacity.

The specific objectives are:

1.      Strengthening Dalit women leadership capacity to mobilize and facilitate access to the basic service provision

2.      Create awareness on caste discrimination, social exclusion and vulnerability within Dalit community and among the greater civil society actors

3.      Advocacy and campaign at local, national and international level to promote Dalit women rights

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Project Name, Duration & Budget

Donor

Goal and Objectives

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Promoting Dalit Rights through Mutual Learning

Period: 1 year (March 2021 to February 2022)

Budget: BDT. 2,794,715

Working Area: Dhaka North and South City Corporation

Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (NOREC), Norway

Goal and Objective:

1.      Protection of human rights of Dalits and marginalized people of Bangladesh and Nepal through exchange of knowledge and experience,

2.      To develop relations and strengthen solidarity among partner organizations,

3.      Reducing Inner and Inland Inequality (SDG-10)

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Justice and Prison Reform for Promoting Human Rights and Preventing Corruption in Bangladesh

Period: 1 year 6 months

 (July 2021 to December 2022)

Working Area:

·   Dhaka North City Corporation (3 Ward) and South City Corporation (2 Ward), Total 5 Ward

·   District of Barishal Sadar Upazila (3 Union) and Gournadi Upazila (5 Union), Total 8 Unions

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Bangladesh

For ensuring the approaches’ long-term implementation by the justice sector, enshrining them within the justice and administrative system in Bangladesh is essential. The Justice and Prison Reform Project (short: Rule of Law Programme, RoL) operates in three areas of activity:

·        aims to enable institutions at the national and district level to adopt the tested reform approaches and implement them with their own resources.

·        aims to improve the basis for evidence-based, gender-sensitive and needs-based policy making.

·        aims to improve access to justice for people in vulnerable situations and disadvantaged groups. This includes developing capacities of professionals from NGOs and District Legal Aid Committees for the deployment of paralegals and developing targeted communication strategies for justice institutions, aiming especially to better reach disadvantaged people.

Objectives: In response to the outlined situation the following services are needed for vulnerable groups in the districts of Barishal and Dhaka:

·        Coordination, communication and establishment of relationship with and among community level actors for legal assistance

·        Deployment and management of community-based paralegals

·        Establish dispute resolution/Restorative Justice mechanisms at the community level through RJ facilitators with support of community volunteers

·        Awareness raising on legal and social issues and information provision on required services in the community

·        Referral to legal assistance, social safety net programmes and other services as required

·        Undertake policy advocacy as and when needed and when necessary collaborate with GIZ on district and national level advocacy

8

Emergency Support Grants to Vulnerable Dalit Communities

Period: 1 year (July 2021 – June 2022)

Budget: BDT. 3,134,937

Working Area:

·   Dhaka North and South City Corporation – 15 Dalit Colony

·   Narayanganj City Corporation 10 Dalit Colony

Foundation for a Just Society (FJS), New York

Overall and specific objectives of the project :

The overall objective is to ensure survival and prevent infection of Covid-19 among Dalit communities in selected areas.

The specific objectives:

1.      To provide emergency food support to vulnerable Dalit families

2.      To provide sanitation materials support to Dalit families

3.      To raise awareness for the prevention of Covid-19 infection among Dalits

9

Breaking the Norms: Challenging Violence against Women

Period: 1 year (July 2021 – June 2022)

Budget: BDT. 1,275,000

Dignity Alliance International (DAI), UK

“Breaking the Norms: Challenging Violence Against Women” project aims to address inherent problems with our culture of impunity and the way we perceive gender and gender roles in our society to generate awareness and provide education to women, children and men in order to instill a sense of equality and understanding.

Objectives:

The project interventions have been designed in line with the holistic approach of the PR3 model of Dignity Alliance International (DAI). The interventions would like to address 4 core strategies with specific focus on 2 core strategies being Prevention of and Response to sexual violence and exploitation of women and children in this pilot phase.

10

Empowering left behind minority communities to effectively participate in the development process of Bangladesh

Period: (June  2021 – July  2024)

Budget: BDT. 75,431,327

1^st Year (June’21-Janu’22      : 15,737,095

2^nd Year (Feb’22-Janu’23)      : 25,519,046

3^rd Year (Feb’23-Janu’24)       : 28,595,749

4^th year (Feb’24-July’24)        : 5,579,437

Christian Aid, UK

Overall Objective: To empower local minority rights CSOs and networks in Bangladesh to effectively engage with left behind communities and enable their participation in local governance & development process.

Objective:

1.      To reduce discrimination, and harmful practices by increasing awareness on minority rights, capabilities and contributions in society; and challenging stereotypes prejudices, and harmful practices within and against minority.

2.      To build the capacity of local and national minority rights CSOs and networks and ensure a conducive and enabling environment to promote socio-economic rights and structured participation of women and girls, transgender & Hijra community and people with disability.

3.      To promote inclusive policy formulation, implementation and governance accountability by strengthening advocacy and lobbying influence of minority rights CSOs.

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Promoting the Rights and Dignity of Sanitation Workers in Urban Areas

Period: February 2022 – January 2023

Budget: BDT. 12,85,958

Water Aid, UK

Objective:

1.      To enhance the capacity of the sanitation workers/leaders to mobilize and raise voice for their health and occupation safety, labor rights as well as dignity.

2.      To influence the relevant agencies to develop operational guidelines to mitigate occupational risks of sanitation work, including national and local level standard operating procedures.