Bangladesh - Belgium

Citizens’ Voice and Accountability Evaluation – Bangladesh Country Case Study
D.6. “We Can”
I: Profile of the Intervention
Issue
Details
1. Donor agency Oxfam
2. Partners / Implementing 12 main NGO partners as funding partners; “We Can” alliance office
agency/ies
acts as secretariat
236 NGOs + thousands of alternative agencies as part of “We Can”
3. Objectives : regarding CVA
and wider objectives in case
CVA is component of broader
intervention
4. Main CVA and other
activities
network
Ending domestic violence through attitude change and social
accountability of men and wider community towards women’s rights
and capabilities.
Three-phase campaign:
(1) Awareness building: awareness of domestic violence and
expectation that people have the capacity to change it
(2) Network building (2007-11): Working with local alternative
agencies that have the potential to support change (e.g. educational
institutions, youth clubs, cultural agencies) and empowering them to
continue the campaign
(3) Integration: into education, culture, youth clubs (2011-16)
Main activities:
• Change maker support
• 16 day campaigns
Method: reflective dialogue method:
• 10 questions
• 1,000 change makers identified; select 10 change makers; do a
three hour session with these change makers using the 10
questions; go back every six months
• Based on principle that if you want to be a change maker you
have to first make the change yourself
5. Target Group/Beneficiaries Women and Men in Bangladesh
6. Key linkages of
Network member women’s rights movements.
intervention with other
programmes
7. Duration 7 years
8. Starting date Sept 2004
9. Total budget Euro 665,000 (Tk7 crore) annual budget
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