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Engaging key stakeholders for resolving land disputes

This tactic of targeting absentee landowners as key stakeholders was non-confrontational and proved effective to target. The community created specific alliances with influential absentee landowners who were initially, and often unknowingly, part of the violation process. Recognition of the importance of the cooperation of this target group led to the success of the movement.

Creating human rights awareness through economic assistance

The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) offers The Micro Enterprise Lending and Assistance (MELA) program, which helps those who have progressed from poverty to relative prosperity but are unable to receive loans from formal lending institutions.

Using Online Rural News to Connect Village Society

Amader Gramer Khobor is a first-of-its-kind online rural news service that covers daily happenings in village society, as no online news service in Bangladesh practices rural journalism with the provisions of time-to-time updating in the same day.  Amader Gramer Khobor, part of Amader Gram which means “Our Village Development Project,” is unique and effective because through this tactic, v

Using a surveillance team within brothels to rescue trafficked girls

A local-level association of sex workers utilizes a surveillance team from within a sex brothel to watch for and prevent the trafficking of under-aged girls.  When the surveillance team composed of senior inmates sees a suspicious activity occurring, they try to obtain background information from the under-aged girl.  The surveillance team then notifies the sex workers’ association.  Based on that information, the association sends a trusted person to the girl’s parents’ or relatives’ house and notifies them of the whereabouts of their daughter.