Advocacy Good Practices Database
This database of 27 advocacy good practices is drawn from the experiences of disabled people’s organizations (DPOs) supported by USAID’s Expanding Participation of People with Disability (EPD) program. Seven DPOs implemented advocacy campaigns in 7 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts from 2018 to 2020 to promote implementation of the Persons with Disabilities Rights and Protection Act, 2013 (DRPA). Implemented by BlueLaw International, LLP in partnership with the Bangladesh Legal Aid Services Trust (BLAST), National Grassroots Disability Organization (NGDO), and National Council of Disabled Women (NCDW), USAID’s Expanding Participation of People with Disability (EPD) program has contributed to numerous successes including the filing of Bangladesh’s first 22 complaints before DRPA district committees using a unique procedure under Section 36. This database aims to identify specific good practices that EPD-supported DPOs have used during their campaigns so that DPOs in other districts might learn from and replicate their successes.
This database is organized into four categories:
- Raising Awareness among Key Stakeholders
- Mobilizing District Committee Members
- Using the Section 36 Procedure
- Monitoring and Evaluating Progress
Scroll down to explore each one.
Raising Awareness among Key Stakeholders
1. Organize courtyard meetings to introduce DPO members to the law
Raising Awareness among Key Stakeholders
2. Hold follow-up two-day trainings for DPO members to give more detailed understanding
Raising Awareness among Key Stakeholders
3. Apply for District Legal Aid Committee observer status
Raising Awareness among Key Stakeholders
4. Participate in National Legal Aid Day rallies
Raising Awareness among Key Stakeholders
5. Organize seminars for professional stakeholders
Raising Awareness among Key Stakeholders
Mobilizing District Committee Members
8. Become a district committee member
Mobilizing District Committee Members
9. Meet with committee members individually
Mobilizing District Committee Members
10. Clarify the Section 36 procedure with key committee members
Mobilizing District Committee Members
11. Organize seminars to bring all committee members together
Mobilizing District Committee Members
12. Pressure committee members to hold quarterly meetings
Mobilize District Committee Members
13. Write letters to committee members to resolve individual rights violations
Mobilizing District Committee Members
Using the Section 36 Procedure
16. Actively encourage DPO members to file Section 36 applications
Using the Section 36 Procedure
17. Assist DPO members to access disability identification cards
Using the Section 36 Procedure
18. Organize legal aid camps with legal aid providers
Using the Section 36 Procedure
19. Set up booths or stalls at legal aid or disability rights events
Using the Section 36 Procedure
20. Train your staff on filling out Section 36 applications
Using the Section 36 Procedure
21. Follow up on news reports of disability rights violations
Using the Section 36 Procedure
22. Install a Section 36 application deposit box
Using the Section 36 Procedure
Monitoring and Evaluating Progress
25. File Right to Information Act applications about committee activities
Monitoring and Evaluating Progress
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