Bangladesh - Belgium
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D.9. Rupantar Grassroots Women’s Leadership<br />
I: Profile of the Intervention<br />
Issue<br />
Details<br />
1. Donor agency Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)<br />
2. Partners / Implementing Rupantar (NGO established 1982)<br />
agency/ies<br />
3. Objectives : regarding CVA To facilitate active participation of women in local decision making<br />
and wider objectives in case process that contributes to improved living conditions for the women<br />
CVA is component of broader and members of their communities<br />
intervention<br />
The core focus of the third phase is to consolidate women’s<br />
leadership and to disseminate Rupantar’s approach.<br />
4. Main CVA and other<br />
activities<br />
• to develop women’s committee structures, train, advise and<br />
accompany grassroots women leaders and organisations at<br />
ward, union parishad and upazila levels so that they are able to<br />
advocate for women’s rights, ask for quality public services and<br />
participate more responsibly in local decision making processes<br />
• to create awareness among UPs on gender issues in their<br />
duty/work and about opportunities to include the gender<br />
perspective<br />
• promote knowledge transfer /replication of Rupantar’s approach<br />
(ref: adapted from SDC Credit proposal July 2007)<br />
Note that Rupantar, in addition to its support for accountability<br />
institutions, is also playing a coaching role, advising local<br />
government on fiscal issues (e.g. raising tax on profit making NGOs,<br />
billboards etc)<br />
5. Target Group/Beneficiaries • women and adolescent girls (23,000)<br />
• elected UP members, local leaders, other members of the<br />
administration, husbands (for support for women’s political<br />
empowerment)<br />
• media, activists, development workers, policy makers ( to<br />
champion on behalf of poor women)<br />
6. Key linkages of<br />
intervention with other<br />
programmes<br />
Another project of Rupantar funded by USAID which support UPs<br />
and establishes Citizen Committees in the same union thus<br />
enabling ‘the much –needed triangular linkage of local<br />
government/local administration, citizens and emerging women<br />
leadership to establish a participatory and accountable system of<br />
governance’ (ref Khan 2006)<br />
7. Duration Phase 3 three years (2007-2010) phase 1 commenced 1998.<br />
8. Starting date July 2007<br />
9. Total budget CHF 2,000,000<br />
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