2022

The excavation project at the Inner Bar of the Mongla Port Channel was on January 28, 2020. Under the project, about 216 lakh cubic meters of soil and sand will be extracted from the Pashur River. Accordingly, the project planned to dump the soil and sand on the private agriculture lands of Dacope’s Banishanta. If

Badabon Sangho led by group-based governance, which builds on women groups and women federation. The new leadership of federation was elected by groups’ leaders vote on 19 August 2022. Congratulations to federation’s new leadership committee including president and general secretary and others. The entire election was facilitated by groups’ leaders and commission’s members. 12 members-led

The key strands of the Women Workers Forum focus on migrant’s workers’ education, strengthening organising among workers, solidarity building among workers in different sectors and locations, documentation of lived experience by the workers and worker-led advocacy initiatives. The five days programme ended with a campaign launching programme with powerful slogans of the migrant’s women workers

Mongla Citizen Committee consisting of women groups members and leaders have organized a rally, 28 July 2022. Group members including 20 women, and 25 men participated in rallies and discussion. Human chain was organized with the demand of drinking water amid acute saline water and soil, which is the main challenges. Local civil society members

Children, adolescence and youths are the most vulnerable group in terms of forced/early girl marriage. By utilizing the social media tools, youths are more engaged in communication, which has advantages and disadvantages as well. Group decided to organise dialogue with the school students along with teachers, parents and school managing committee members. In last three

Group members started sessions on sexual and reproductive rights with VAW survivors. By the way of group facilitation, it was found that most of the members are survivors, has early/forced marriage history. Then, groups organized sessions with couple who are survivors of VAW and talked about each of the separate stories. Right after covid, it

For the period of 21-23 June 2022, a training on `Advocacy and Policy Influencing’ was facilitated for field and management level programme team members and volunteers. The training was organized in Paddakep training centre in Dhaka. This training was facilitated by MDF Training and Consultancy, Bangladesh Officer and supported by Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) of

One of the part of the advocacy programme is- women’s fisher-folk association’s recognition and registration with the cooperative dept. Local officials keeping excuse, dedicated women fisher-folk association is not supported by policy. Groups are keeping communication with upazila and district officials regarding association’s registration. As a result, District Cooperative Officer, S M Anisur Rahman was