Democracy & Governance

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With around half the population under the poverty line and a governance framework largely following colonial traditions, public institutions in Bangladesh are sorely inadequate for formulating and carrying out pro-poor action plans. BDI has embarked on several research initiatives with a view to generate pressure for government reform at local, national, and judiciary levels:

• Evaluating how best to create and implement mechanisms of citizen engagement in local government so that poor people can exercise control over local institutions and government resources
• Generating knowledge on the efforts of poor and marginalised groups to define and claim their rights through an analysis of their relationships with existing institutions
• Finding methods of extending access to justice for the poor

List of projects

• Deepening Democracy
• Building Citizenship and Promoting Participation