Project
Promoting Peace and Co-existence in Bangladesh
Programme Goal: To work both with Kawra communities (and their leaders) and the wider Muslim community on how they can live together with respect and dignity in a peaceful and cordial atmosphere
Sector Focus:Human Rights
Status:Completed
Duration:2016
Donor:Bandhu Social Welfare Society (Bangladesh)
Number of beneficiaries:5,500 (direct 1,500,indirect 4,000)
Working area:Batiaghata(in Khulna district)
Activities:
- selecting relevant decision-makers and influencers – including upazila chairmen, union parishad chairmen, upazila livestock and veterinary officers – who are in a position to lead change and establish good relationships between all sides;
- bringing together minority communities with decision makers to form 20 groupsand holding monthly meetings;
- enabling Hindu minorities, including pig farmers and traders, to raise their concerns with the right authorities; and
- organising wider groups of those who may not be directly concerned but can still be a beneficial influence on decision-makers.
- arrange monthly meeting with women group
- arrange courtyard session with villagers on violence
- arrange training for reporters at national level
- report to the authority on the gender based violence
- arrange advocacy workshop on dalit rights
