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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Citizen Dialogue on Gender Budgeting at local Government held

LG leaders promise to ensure budgetary Allocation to include Women Human Rights issues in next fiscal year

Upazila and Union Parishad leaders promises to ensure budgetary allocation for addressing women human rights issues in next fiscal year. They also urges the government to necessary actions to strengthening the local Government councils for responding the needs for the half of the population women folks and demanding reduce the supervisory role by the Member of Parliaments and bureaucrats to the local government councils. These were stated by the speakers at the Citizen Dialogue Demanding include Women Human Rights issues in Planning and Budgeting process at local Government Councils held on last 24^th May 2012 at the ICDDRB Conference hall, Chakaria, Cox’s Bazar.

Kh Zakir Hossain UNO Chakaria addressing the

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ISDE Bangladesh, Chakaria Upazila Social Entrepreneur Council, Sufia Kamal fellows and CSDF jointly organized the citizen dialogue while Chakaria Upazila Vice Chairman S M Jahangir Alam Bubul was presided. Mr. Sk Azad Kamal Tipu and Giash Uddin of ISDE Bangladesh was moderated the roundtable. Chakaria Upazila Nirbahi Office Kh. Zakir Hossain was chief guest and S M Nazer Hossain Executive Director ISDE Bangladesh was principal speaker at the dialogue. Chakaria UP Chairman Association leader and Baraitali UP Chairman ATM Ziauddin Chowdhury Zia, Upazila Social Entrepreneur Council President Haji Bashirul Alam, District Social Entrepreneur Council leader S M Majur Hossain, Red crescent team leader Nurul Abasar was panel speaker and women activist & Chakaria Women Entrepreneur Council President Umme Kulshum Minu was presented key note paper at the dialogue. Amongst others B M Chair UP Chairman Badiul Alam, Koanakli Up Chairman Didarul Alam, UP secretary Sushil kanti Sushil, Saiful Islam, journalist A K M Nasir Uddin, DAE official Abu Taher Nury, Sufia kamal fellow Jannatul Bakeya Rekha, Shahana Begume, UP Members Jahanra begume, Rokeya Begume, Monorawra Begume, Murshida Begume and Chakaria Municipality councilor Anajuman ara were take part the discussion.

S M Nazer Hossain addressing

Speakers demanding to analysis the contributions of the women at domestic works in preparing national budget. They thanks the Government to take initiatives to introduce gender budgeting by the various ministries. They also demanding to specify the scope and tasks of the UP female members and support to enhance their leadership. Speakers also demanding to ensure open budgeting session system at all local local Government and ensure participation of the community in budgeting process.

Speakers prepared 30 points recommendations for implementation of the local government to gender budgeting and include women human rights issues at the planning and budgeting process. These are budgetary allocation for stop early marriage, domestic violation, dowry, violence against women and increase participation of women in political process.

Amongst others UP Chairman, members, Municipality councilors, UP Secretary, journalist, women leaders, political leaders, Government officials and NGOs representative were participate part the roundtable.

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Integrated Social Development Effort (ISDE) Bangladesh is a local non-governmental, non-political, non-religious, voluntary, social development organization working in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, including Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Rangamati, Kagrachari and Bandarban hill districts. ISDE Bangladesh was established in 1992, with the initiation of some like-minded social workers to serve the socio economically depressed & backward groups in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. It seeks to create self-sustaining rural communities through process of battling against rural drawback and the social economic energizing of the poor; such a process involves a number of suitable social and economic activities. ISDE Bangladesh is instrument in assisting the poor in working for their own developments instead of being the passive receive of it. It works in the identified rural and urban areas targeting sustainable social change that will contribute in ensuring a better life for the vulnerable people, with special emphasize to women and children. ISDE Bangladesh works adopting the target group development approach and most of the groups are associated with women members. It implements its all activities targeting on purpose to protect rights of the target women and children. It continues its all efforts to ISDE Bangladesh’s commitment through mainstreaming gender in a participatory development process. It collaborates with different local, national and international NGO’s and Government Departments in realizing their common goal of women empowerment, human rights, gender, environment, and education, rural and urban development. It envisages a society with improved environment human dignity and security. Its mission is guided by people’s aspirations that significantly contributes in changing the existing socio-economic status of target groups; facilitate the need-based services focusing to reducing gender discrimination and improving environmental status that will yield poverty reduced better life by enhancing people's capacities, initiatives and commitment followed by the principles of human rights, governance, gender and equity. Strengthen effective people’s participation at all stages of program designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation harnessing local and external resources that will contribute greatly in sustainable social change. ISDE Bangladesh works in line with Target Group Approach as well as Community Approach followed by the principles of human rights, good governance, gender sensitivity, equity and participation targeting poverty reduction. It gives equal emphasis to ISDE Bangladesh scheduled castes and ethnic groups as target groups. ISDE Bangladesh grew to its present level by responding to the needs of the people. From 1993 ISDE started moving to a more exhaustive approach with resources and financial assistance from a number of development partners. ISDE Bangladesh has been gradually expanding its activities in more remote and neglected areas of the country.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

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