Development Organizations acknowledges that the union level of presidency is currently the first line implementers of national program, policies and laws. They in all probability are the unit of presidency has the facility to bring positive change as direct impact on people’s lives. There exist however, a distinct segment in understanding and awareness level among the local elected bodies, who hold the chief responsibility at the Union Level to work out on Social Justice and sensible Government.
Development Organizations recognize, it's solely the brink of forging a coherent strategy for increasing the developmental impact of its programs vis partnering and institutional capability building. From a long time, the number of development organization has been functioning closely with the local Government and it understand the context, problems and opportunities at the agricultural community and union level.
Development Organizations understands that through the combined efforts of development organization and local government along can contribute to the strategy of decentralized democratization by strengthening lower tire of local government. The local government is the body through that development organizations can legitimately reach local government authorities, NGOs, Community members and leaders in its tries to form higher still nearly pretty much as good enough governance. The common vision of development organization and additionally the government of Bangladesh is for extra domestically based development initiatives, better-mobilized local resources, increased community participation and increased government accountability targeted at intervals the people themselves. The key to realizing this profit is to clarifying the roles and functions of the union and Upazila level among the local elected bodies and community people, strengthening their capacities to rearrange , manage and generate local resources development organizations will work to work out Partnerships with local government
The identified problems and challenges were related to information base, Awareness, Community participation and performance of Union Parishad. Therefore, the identified problems and Challenges are categorize into three major area:
Awareness:
1) Lack of exposure to and awareness of democratic principles, voters role, human rights and community participation
2) Lack of clarity by every voters and elected officers over the roles and functions of local government in Bangladesh:
Community Participation
- Poor community access to and illustration in local government considerably by women:
- Poor community participation and co-ordination in identifying and directing development efforts:
- Lack of community primarily based consensus building in selecting and implementing domesti
Performance of local Elected Bodies:
- Inability or low commitment to identify and address constituent wishes or public interest:
- Poor development planning and management capability of gram and union authorities:
Development Organizations seeks to touch upon these challenges and problems related to awareness building, community participation and additionally the poor performance of local elected bodies of Union Parishad and Gram Sarker, through interventions that will consider enhancing the institutional capability of the local government to raised organize and coordinate effective development initiatives that will foster community participation. Development organizations is assured enough that it is the power to contribute to establishing larger accountability between local elected bodies and their constituents and build them further aware of local public interest.
Possible activities that my contribute to the establishment sensible governance and strengthen the local government are as follows:
Conducting Baseline study, coaching & Orientation, Awareness Raising, Resource Mobilization and Generation, New Initiatives, Advocacy and Networking, Cross visit and Establishing Nagorik Parishad.
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