Completed Projects

Mukho-Mukki: MPs and Constituents Working Face-to-Face in Eradicating Poverty and Strengthening Primary Education

Duration: August 11 – July 2014

Donor: The Asia Foundation

Number of beneficiaries: 1, 35,835

 

Brief description of the project

IED has undertaken a project to make the citizen sensitive for face to face interaction with local Member of Parliament(MP) to place peoples’ recommendations related to eradication of poverty and strengthening primary education in the parliament with due importance for the period of August 2011 – July 2014. Its overall objective directly contributes to create an enabling environment for sensitive citizenship in democratic governance of Bangladesh. The specific objectives are:

  • To strengthen the relationship between MPs and civil society to conduct effective advocacy on national policy issues.
  • To create opportunities (District Public Policy Forum, public hearings, and other public consultations) to bring law-makers and constituents together to identify deficiencies in existing policies, laws, rules and procedures, and promote a policy agenda for eradicating poverty and ensuring primary education for all the region’s children.
  • To raise awareness among law makers about bringing necessary changes in existing laws and procedures, and assisting them in performing their legislative, representation and oversight functions through policy research and perception study to identify and understand the problems and bottlenecks constraining spread of primary education and reduction of poverty in concerned constituencies.

The purpose of this project was to encourage and support Members of Parliament from the constituencies of Netrokona, Kishoreganj, Shariatpur and Thakurgaon in their legislative, representation and oversight functions related to evolving, ratifying and implementing a regional policy agenda developed on a participatory basis to eradicate poverty and ensure primary education for all.

This three year project contributed to bring remarkable changes in the status related to eradicating poverty and strengthening primary education. The people in the project area became sensitized to address above mentioned development priorities. It contributed to bring changes in their livelihoods. The voice raising capacity of the people has been increased and duty bearers have become more sensitized to address issues related to their lives.

IED has the emphasis to work in haor, char and remote and comparatively poor areas to take special care. IED and its partner organizations have the strong presence with development activities in these geographical areas.

The project covered Dhaka and Netrokona. It was coordinated and controlled from Dhaka.