Wetland International (an international development organisation) working on wetland management and WASH programme has facilitated a training on `Environmental Sustainability in WASH activities’ for the period of 2-5 September 2015 in Bangladesh. The training was organised at the training centre of Uttaran, Tala, Sathkhira. Total 11 participants of Uttaran, Practical Action, Dalit and Mukti Foundation…
“God will do you good and make you very successful in life because you obtained for us the land which we purchased through our hard earned money,” said Julekha. Julekha and Afsar Ali are the residents of Belbelia Mouza, Jamalpur and members of primary organisations of Uttaran. Julekha regularly attends the courtyard meetings conducted by…
Uttaran delivered three batches of training on `Youth Leadership’ with 108 youths including (50% women). The trainings are being prepared by British Council with financial support of United State Department of Democracy and delivered by the programme officers who received training of facilitators. The three days long training was delivered with appropriate methods, tools and…
The midterm evaluation mission of European Union has visited Jamalpur to evaluate the impact of ongoing activities of overall Access to Land project’ including Sustainable Access to Land Equality-SALE project on 29-30 April, 2015. Julia Jacoby, Project Manager of Human Rights and Governance Programme of Delegation of European Union of Bangladesh, Mark A Marquardt, Team Leader…
The second year Annual Planning meeting of SALE project was convened on 24-25 June, 2015 with the participation of the members of SALE project, Project Technical Assistance Team-PTAT and Project Management Unit -PMU of Department of Land Record and Survey under Ministry of Land. The planning meeting targeted on three objectives which were as followed;…
Uttaran under the consortium project, Sustainable Access to Land Equality-SALE is working for raising public awareness among the target groups i.e. vulnerable, minority, women, indigenous and poor landowners. Uttaran designed and developed number of communication materials like flipchart, village note, leaflet, folk song, posters, festoons (banner) etc. with technical support of Department of Land Record…
A roundtable discussion on “Rural Land Market in Bangladesh: A Situation Analysis” was held on December 3, 2014 at the Daily Star Centre jointly organized by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Uttaran and CARE Bangladesh with financial support from European Union (EU). The purpose of the roundtable was to share the preliminary findings of the survey…
A team of European Union officials visited the Mohanpur, Rajshahi pilot area of the SALE project from 28 September to 1 October in 2013. The team consisted of the project manager EU, Ms. Julia Jacoby as the head of cooperation; the finance attaché, Mr. Nadine Sterckx for the Contracts and Audit Section; the national project…
Uttaran took part in the human rights fair-2014 at Mohonpur, Rajshahi. The fair was organized by the ASUS (Adibashi Shamaj Unnayan Songstha). It was a good initiative to aware the people about the land rights and land digitalization system as people of different communities and clans can attend there to know their rights on land.…