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  Local governance self assessment: guidelines for facilitators

  Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009

  Local government promises to be more responsive to people's demands, more effective in service delivery and more accountable when citizens participate in local governance. This can be achieved through public meetings, grievance procedures, civil society group activities, opinion surveys, elections, and media involvement.
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  Rude accountability in the unreformed state: informal pressures on frontline bureaucrats in Bangladesh

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009

  The massive expansion of social service provision in the 1990s in Bangladesh has meant the state is now a larger presence in the lives of the poor. The terms though of its interaction with those citizens remain largely unreformed, more strongly marked by the culture of patronage and deference
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  Speaking out: how the voices of poor people are shaping the future

  Oxfam, 2009

  This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation  in policy making and accountability. Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby for changes in their situation include:
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  Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG)

  Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG) is an alliance of NGO and CSO activists in Bangladesh.
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  Assessing rights as citizens: the camp based Urdu speaking community in Bangladesh

  Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007

  In the Bengali- speaking nation of Bangladesh today are a small number of Urdu speakers. Many have been there for generations having migrated from the State of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal in Indian colonial times. This short policy brief identifies some of the present barriers to effective citizenship. The authors examine the community’s hopes, fears and aspirations.
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  Taking Community-Led Total Sanitation to scale: movement, spread and adaptation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008

  When a process leads to positive change, it is desirable to instigate that process elsewhere. This paper proposes that ‘going to scale’ though, is multi-dimensional and complex. It examines the issues through Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): an innovation in participatory methodology, as well as a unique approach to sanitation.
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  Opportunities for agency and social participation among child domestic workers in Bangladesh

  Children, Youth and Environments, 2007

  With the emergence of a global concept of childhood based on the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) there has been a growing interest in increasing children’s participation in society.
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  Community involvement in youth reproductive health and HIV prevention

  Family Health International, 2007

  Are reproductive health and HIV prevention outcomes for young people better when a project makes an explicit effort to involve community members? This briefing paper summarises the findings of a range of studies that have sought to investigate this question.
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  Urban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

  Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006

  This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".
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  Making space for citizens: broadening the ‘new democratic spaces’ for citizen participation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This IDS Policy Briefing explores the new democratic spaces that have opened up for citizen participation in a range of countries, including Angola, Brazil, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Uganda, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom.

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