PROGRAMS

Education and Development

The Education and Development Program pursues a new education model suitable for the 21^st century due to a predictable collapse of the Industrial Age. The education models that have been devised and practiced so far until now to suit the needs of an Industrial Civilization appear to be replaced with the one/s compatible with post-industrial sustainable development to minimize the devastating impacts of climate change. The organization seeks to pilot an ecological education model under a “US-Bangladesh Sister School Initiative”.

Capacity Building

Civic Bangladesh has taken the Capacity Building program to empower the civil society through providing civic education on civic values, cultures, knowledge, skills, and competency and raise their cognitive awareness of free associations and expressions, social and cultural pluralism, respect for cultural diversity and differences among different activists and actors. To develop awareness and capacity of the networks such as Bangladesh Dignity Forum (BDF), Civic Media Net (CIMEN), Civic Education Network (CEN), the program delivers civic awareness through training and orientation on human dignity, political rights, democratic principles and social justice. Also, the program offers a unique learning package that includes reading books entitled “Jago Sabai” (“All Rise”), “Sabar Jonno Marjada” (“Dignity For All”), and “Gonotantrer Mool Ritiniti (Basic principles of democracy)” published by the organization. Civic Bangladesh further seeks to develop and offer alternative learning opportunities to ease, expedite and sustain the changes.

Right to Information and Freedom of Expression (RIFE)

The organization initiated the Right to Information and Freedom of Expression (RIFE) Program to mobilize the journalists to exercise press freedom, develop an informed and alert civil society and hold the government to account. To do so, it has taken preparatory measures for building the capacity of the local journalists so that they can exercise their press freedom and connect the remote communities to the mainstream information networks. In this regard, the program has taken an initiative for building a network of community journalists and training them to play effective roles in covering the unreported issues, events and incidents of economic, social and political importance. Moreover, to make the voters an informed choice, it plans a media campaign to generate public awareness about the electoral rules and regulations, parties, policies, candidates and the process ahead of the parliamentary and local government elections.

Civil Society and Governance

The Civil Society and Governance Program aims to advance democracy and governance through promoting effective political participation in local governance, and mobilizing demands to make the policy process responsive to the needs of the marginalized and the excluded. To promote accountability and transparency of the local government, it seeks to organize issue-specific interactions, consultations, debates and dialogues.