Transcript Manusher Jonno Foundation

Goal: Poor, marginalised and vulnerable people enjoy a better
quality of life in an environment of democratic freedom and security.
MJF was designed by DFID as MJF funding from DFID:
Goal
of MJF:
CARE project
in July 2002
with a vision of forming an
1st Phase: 16 million
independent organization
2nd phase 29.5 million
COPE :24 million GBP
MJF obtained registration
from Joint Stock Company and
A strong Governing Board is
NGOAB in 2006.
responsible for all policy
decisions.
Grants and partners of MJF
Name of the Program
Small : GBP 64,000 22
Combating Violence against Women
18
Ensuring responsiveness of Public
Institutions
30
Medium: GBP 128,000 Ensuring Rights of the Marginalized
45
Population
Large: GBP 280,000 45
Macro: GBP 560,0005
Number of the
Partners
31
Protection of Working Children and
Vulnerable Workers
22
Socioeconomic Developments of
Chittagong Hill Tracts
16
Total Regular Partners
117
Inclusive governance in MJF program
• Monitoring the targeting of
different safety net program
through SGSP program
• MJF facilitates the process
of building PNGOs capacity
• MJF conducted third party
in Social Accountability
monitoring for Govt. projects.
tools
The approach was citizen
engagement though using
social accountability tools to
identify the community role on
the project designing, their
participation and decision
making.
• Vulnerable people are
benefited through
functional village
courts, shalish and
Govt. legal aid fund.
• 1,066,993 people have
better access to
services like health,
education and
agriculture extension
• Partners have
developed information
disclosure policies
and have designated
officers.
• Mid and field level
staff are trained to
motivate project
participants to use the
law.
Inclusive Governance and Women’s Participation:
Crucial for Sustainable Development
Shaheen Anam
Executive Director
Manusher Jonno Foundation-Bangladesh
www.manusherjonno.org
Importance of Inclusive Governance
• Substantive gender equality, equity and inclusiveness
constitute the essential underpinnings of sustainable
development, where women play equal and equitable roles in
the socio-political, economic and environmental sectors.
• MJF believes in gender equality, justice, respect, and dignity
for women, together with inclusive and democratic
governance at the individual, family, community and National
level.
• Inclusive governance recognize and address the women’s
problems of grinding poverty, poor levels of achievement in
the human development indices, poor maternal and child
health, poor literacy rates and high levels of school drop-outs,
violence against women in all its forms and manifestations,
social injustice and gender inequalities.
• Inclusive governance also recognizes and addresses gender
inequalities of the worst kind, economic discrimination,
including through lack of ownership or inadequate control over
resources, tremendous vulnerability during and in the
aftermath of environmental disasters.
Why Women leaderships matter: Women
CBO
Case
from Bangladesh
• CBO: A space for grassroots women and they built a vibrant community , made their
world possible by challenging patriarchal norms and values.
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The 19 CBO members empowerment and the development of their capabilities are
closely related to their economic self-sufficiency and playing important role for
responsive governance at local and district level.
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Ownership sense among community is the main strength for sustainability.
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A positive attitude and behavior towards women and children has grown among the
male dominance segment.
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Women leaders gained social acceptance, reputation in terms of managing and
solving the problems related to women and girl child violence.
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Negotiation and bargaining skills also have developed, so that they could
communicate with government authorities and represent in social structure.
Inclusive Governance & Women’s participation
• Women’s participation in local and national
governance has so far been very limited in
Bangladesh, inclusive governance do count
women as equal citizens through the constitutional
and legal rights accorded to them.
• It is important to strengthen the role of women in
institutions of democracy at all levels, from the
national legislature to local self-government.
• This is essential for ensuring effective
implementation of substantive equality and equity,
women’s rights and women’s empowerment in the
system and in society, in order to bring in
sustainable development for all.
How inclusive governance plays role in building
women leadership
• Increase women’s participation in transitional institutions,
especially Laws, rules/policy formulation, reformulationdrafting bodies.
• Guarantee women’s participation in all Govt. departments,
Ministries and local government structures.
• Active gender focal points in all Ministries to advance gender
mainstreaming and women’s advancement.
• Play pro active role to review all laws and documents from
gender & CEDAW lens to ensure substantive equality.
• Increase women’s political participation and decision making
process in National development plans.
• Build capacity & skill of women to ensure quality contribution
in labour market.
• Women work force work as pressure group within government
mechanism to take action to recognize women’s unaccounted
contribution at family, society and State.
• Election mechanism will work for the advancement of
women’s representation, including quotas for political parties.
Campaign : “ Equality through Dignity”
• Background: Non recognition and under valuation of women’s work
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perpetuating the stereo type that women are dependent and burdens to
the family and society and there fore deserve lower status. One of the
outcomes of lower status of women is discrimination in private and
public life and gender based violence.
Goal of Campaign: To change mind set and attitude of society
towards women so that they enjoy equality and dignity in public and
private life.
Objectives:
• Creating mass awareness to highlighting the underreporting and
under valuation of women’s contribution to the economy.
• Sensitizing policy makers and planners that the under valuation of
women’s contribution to the society is a hindrance to meeting
development goals and impacting negatively on the GDP.
• Sensitizing the media, print and electronic, advertising companies,
private sector etc to portray women in a positive way and reject the
stereo typing of women.
Major Research Findings on” Estimating
Women’s Contribution to the Economy”
1.Time Use for Unpaid (Non-SNA) Activities: On an average, a
female person works about 7.7 hours on non-SNA activities on a
typical day; in contrast a male person works about 2.5 hours.
2. Number of Unpaid (Non-SNA) Activities: On an average, a female
member of a HH undertakes 12.1 non-SNA activities on a typical day
– the corresponding figure for a male HH member is only 2.7.
3. Valuation of Unpaid (Non-SNA) Activities
• Based on replacement cost (the shadow wage for similar type of
work) method, the estimated value of women’s unpaid non-SNA
(household) works was equivalent to 76.8% of GDP (of FY2013-14).
• According to the willingness to accept (for outside her own
household) method, the corresponding estimate was equivalent to
87.2% of GDP (of FY2013-14).