Ongoing field projects by HI, CBM and GTZ

Bangladesh

Status of PRSP and disability: Bangladesh has started its PRS process in 2001 and published its full PRSP "Unlocking the Potential - National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction" in October 2005. Due to the active involvement of organisations working in the field of disability the issues is almost treated as a cross-cutting issue and a separate paragraph of two pages emphasize the importance of inclusion.

Implementing organisations: Handicap International with NFOWD (National Forum of Organisations working with the Disabled) and member organisations.

Contact: Rabeya Sultana [proj_coord.hibgd[at]dominox.com] (project coordinator)

In Bangladesh disability stakeholders were very active in the formulation phase of the PRSP in 2003 and 2004. The implementation phase started last year. Although several parts of the paper consider people with disabilities, the situation does not really change for them. On March 7, 2007 NFOWD and Handicap International invited DPOs and organisations working with and for people with disabilities to a half-day workshop. The objective of the workshop was to spread the information about the PRSP and to brainstorm on next steps for better inclusion of disability issues in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation.