The training manual is expected to facilitate trainings targeted to enhance caregiving skills people require in meeting the therapeutic needs of children living with disabilities in Bangladesh. We hope the manual will be helpful for trainers, trainees and anyone working in the field of disability. The manual is in Bengali language at the moment.

This series presents learning on three development initiatives: Organic Advocacy, Resilience in Char (lands surrounded by river water and detached from the main land) and Women’s Collectives in empowering grassroots women. Organicity of a Grassroots advocacy initiative is the essence of the first learning document in this publication.

An overview of ActionAid Bangladesh’s activities and interventions of education programme in Bangladesh from 2012 to 2015.

This background paper compliments ActionAid’s internal position on youth and the Post-2015 development agenda. It provides case studies that showcase the approaches and roles young men and women can take in implementing and reporting on the targets and indicators of the Post-2015 development goals. This paper aims to strengthen the argument for why young people should be engaged in holding their governments to account on the delivery of the Post-2015 development agenda. It does this by providing ideas and approaches on how youth–driven participatory monitoring and tracking at community level can ensure the Post-2015 agenda is rooted in processes that actually empower communities.

Aware that life posits itself with an array of adversities, and armed with the inner strength, people living in poverty bring about change in their lives as an individual and as a group, and in the process encourage everyone. The inner strength, the will to survive creates something as powerful as hope. This photo-book named ‘People Power’ briefly captures that hope. In this photo-exploration, we have attempted to celebrate the contributions of the common people in Bangladesh towards developing a better world – a world that we believe is possible through realisation of the power in people. The publication marks the 30th anniversary of ActionAid in Bangladesh.

We endorse the UN Global Call on Youth and encourage national and international stakeholders to continue upholding the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) and to partner with young people in its implementation. We firmly believe that the promotion of youth as agents of social change and in positions of leadership will yield the highest return on investment – the nation’s development. Read the ‘stories of change’ to get a glimpse of where we can go together.

At ActionAid Bangladesh ‘stitching the change’ for rights of people marginalised due to power imbalance and identity politics is the motivation and drive that kept this organisation running for 3 decades. In this report, we attempt to capture the year past with the ‘prouds’ and ‘sorries’, and provide an overview of the work of ActionAid Bangladesh in 2013.

‘Learning Document Series 14-15’ is fifth in the annual series that ActionAid Bangladesh has been producing since 2009. The underlying purpose of LDS is to portray rights-based alternatives and development practices facilitated by ActionAid and its partners for wider upscale and replication

Education is critical to human development, enlightenment and emancipation. It is a powerful vehicle for securing social justice. Education is a fundamental human right, the responsibility of the state and a core element of national development policy. Securing the right to education is key to enabling people to secure other basic rights. This article is a critical analysis on how the draft education law 2013 to look into how much inclined it was to protect the right of education of citizens.