Bangladesh’s local development organizations are world famous. They fill a desperate need. But, asks Afsan Chowdhury, are outfits like the Grameen Bank becoming victims of their own success, losing touch with the poor as their new skyscrapers rise over the slums?
As part of a human rights education campaign, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) fixed 700,000 posters throughout Bangladesh. This met with opposition from religious organisations. This paper investigates the nature and cause of the backlash and sets out strategies for how development organisations can achieve their objectives in the face of opposition.
Traditionally, the role of non-government organizations has been to act as an entry point for social development in the local levels in Bangladesh. In post-independence period, the importance and necessity of NGOs as important actors in the development process became prominent and there soon became a rapid growth of such organizations, especially those dealing with credit and development.
