Bangladesh - Belgium

Model of change
Assumptions Activities Outputs Outcomes
Resource distribution
(land and public services
entitlements) will lead to
economic, political and
social forms of
empowerment.
Group formation
encourages solidarity and
mutual support to sustain
action and encourage
institutional change.
Visible and effective
participation by men and
women in formal and
informal PPeace, institutions will
change attitudes towards
the , poor and challenge
sociocultural norms.
Policy norms will change
to align with increased
visibility and inclusion of
the poor.
Khas land claims and
registration
Group savings
Accessing public services
Non-formal education
Village committee, UP, shalish
membership and influence
Women promoted to
leadership positions
LAND network expansion
Land rights group formation
Women’s Action Committee
formation
Gender mainstreaming
Policy advocacy activities on
legal and constitutional reform.
• Landless poor people are
able to access and secure
resources to improve their
livelihood
• Formal and informal
institutions ensure active
involvement of and
accountability to landless
poor people
• A growing constituency of
support for pro-poor
development and influence
of landless poor people is
apparent in decision
making with regard to
changes in policy and
practice
• Samata and its network
maintains a credible,
accountable and replicable
approach to empowerment
of landless poor people
through resource
mobilisation
Landless men and
women in Samata’s
programme area
improve their
livelihoods, expand
their asset base,
become socially and
politically empowered
and able effectively to
pressurize government,
political and other elites
to address the needs
and rights of poor men
and women
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