Goal: Poor, marginalised and vulnerable people enjoy a better quality of life in an environment of democratic freedom and security.

Goal of MJF:MJF was designed by DFID as CARE project in July 2002 with a vision of forming an independent organization

MJF obtained registration from Joint Stock Company and NGOAB in 2006.

MJF funding from DFID:

1st Phase: 16 million 2nd phase 29.5 million COPE :24 million GBP

A strong Governing Board is responsible for all policy decisions.

Small : GBP 64,000 - 22

Medium: GBP 128,000 -45

Large: GBP 280,000 -45

Macro: GBP 560,000-5

Name of the Program Number of the

Partners

Combating Violence against Women 18

Ensuring responsiveness of Public Institutions

30

Ensuring Rights of the Marginalized Population

31

Protection of Working Children and Vulnerable Workers

22

Socioeconomic Developments of Chittagong Hill Tracts

16

Total Regular Partners 117

Grants and partners of MJF

Inclusive governance in MJF program

• Monitoring the targeting of different safety net program through SGSP program

• MJF conducted third party monitoring for Govt. projects. The approach was citizen engagement though using social accountability tools to identify the community role on the project designing, their participation and decision making.

• MJF facilitates the process of building PNGOs capacity in Social Accountability tools

• 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

• 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.

Importance of Inclusive Governance

Why Women leaderships matter: Women CBOCase from Bangladesh• CBO: A space for grassroots women and they built a vibrant community , made their

world possible by challenging patriarchal norms and values.

• 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.

• Ownership sense among community is the main strength for sustainability.

• A positive attitude and behavior towards women and children has grown among the male dominance segment.

• Women leaders gained social acceptance, reputation in terms of managing and solving the problems related to women and girl child violence.

• 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, reformulation-drafting 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

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).