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Speak up

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Speak up

Speak up

 

Working Area:

Dhaka: Ward No. 05 & 06, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC)

Satkhira: Shatkhira Sadar Upazila (Alipur UP, Dhulihar UP, Agardari UP, Bolli UP and Satkhira Municipal) 

Goal: Civil Society (including women, youth and child rights) organisations are empowered to promote the rights of girls, boys and gender-diverse children and youth ensuring their freedom of expression in public discourse and digital spaces.
Objective:

Outcome1: Civil society organisations including human rights defenders are equipped to support children and youth's safe use of digital technologies to speak up about their rights and protect themselves online.

Outcome 2: Children and youth in all their diversity express their opinions in a safe online environment, and participate in political, cultural and social actions.

Outcome 3: Civil society actors are motivated and proactively engaged to advocate for gender transformative policy and legal-institutional reform to priorities protection of children and youth’s rights in the digital space.

Significant Achievements/ Milestone:
  • 16 local and national level CSOs has been selected to work together through Speak Up project platform.
  • Conducted meeting with Sr. Management team of 16 select CSOs to share the objectives of the Speak Up project and highlight the importance of CSO engagement.
  • 30 children and youth group has been formed in the project area.
  • A project inception workshop was organized, with active participation from all levels of project stakeholders.
  • Strong relationships have been established with project stakeholders, including government officials, community leaders, and parents.
Beneficiaries: 20 CSOs working on human rights and children and youth rights, 2000 disadvantaged children (75%) and youth (25%) in all their diversity in the working areas.
Stakeholder: Children and Youth, Families and Communities, Government representatives, Protection Committees and Systems, Private Sectors Representatives, Law Enforcement Agencies, Independent Media Actors, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). 
Project Duration: March 01, 2025 to February 29, 2028 (36 months)
Project Budget: BTD 29,107,646.00
Aligns With SDG:

SDG: 5 (Gender Equality)

SDG: 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions)

Development Partner: Terre des Hommes - Netherlands
Donor: European Union
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