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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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