| Municipal Assiciation of Bangladesh-MAB | |||||||||||||||||
| LIUPC-Influencing Urban Policy focusing on Governance and Poverty Project | |||||||||||||||||
| Implementation Plan | |||||||||||||||||
Sl | Proposed Activities | Unit | Target Audience | Total Target | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Remarks | |||||||||
(Quarter) | |||||||||||||||||
| (Quarter) | |||||||||||||||||
| Nov-Dec | Jan-Mar | Apr-Jun | Jul-Sep | October- December | January- March | April-June | |||||||||||
| 1. | Influence the policy makers to integrate urban chapter of the 8th five-year plan | ||||||||||||||||
| 1.1. | Conduct an assessment to identify the demand of the municipalities to address in the 8th five-year plan and develop a policy brief | Study Report | MAB, Mayors, LG Ministry | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1.2. | Conduct a national level workshop to advocate for addressing urban challenges in the 5-year plan | Mayors, key government officials of LGD, LG ministry, Planning commission, GED | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Influence the Local Government Ministry and act as an advocacy group for approval of Urban Sector Policy | ||||||||||||||||
| 2.1. | Share the draft USP at the regional level of MAB through consultation workshop to assess the requirements of the municipalities are addressed | Workshop | Mayors and key LG officials, MAB | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 2.2. | Consultation meeting with ministry to mobilize the approval process of the USP | Meeting | LG Ministry | as required | |||||||||||||
| 2.3. | Develop a policy brief note and organize policy dialogue / seminars / conference on the need of an approved urban sector policy and identify the bottlenecks of approving the USP | policy dialogue / seminar/ conference | Mayors, key local government officials, LG ministry | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Identify and replicate the best practices of the municipalities | ||||||||||||||||
| 3.1. | Develop an online platform and collect information from all the municipalities of Bangladesh on the best practices | System development | MAB | continuous | |||||||||||||
| 3.2. | Identify the best practices through organizing regional horizontal learning programs with participation of the municipalities | Regional Workshop | Mayors, LG Officials, Town Federation/ Community Leaders and other organizations active in the municipalities | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 3.3. | Document the best practices and achievements of the municipalities and publish it in MAB’s newsletter and another communicable format regularly | Quarter | MAB, Municipalities and all urban stakeholders | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 3.4. | Replicate selected best practices in non-LIUPCP municipalities (like participatory poverty mapping, creating multidimensional poverty index, development of poverty reduction strategies and allocating resources for poverty reduction from municipality’s own revenue) | Municipality | Non-LIUPCP Municipalities and their citizens (especially the poor) | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Build institutional capacity of MAB | ||||||||||||||||
| 4.1. | Support MAB’s regular operational activities to represent all the municipalities in Bangladesh and uphold their rights | Quarter | MAB | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 4.2. | Develop and enable online system through MAB’s website to store information for all the municipalities in Bangladesh | Active online system | MAB, Government, Municipalities, and Development partners | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 4.3. | Organize series of webinars with participation of municipal mayors and document the lessons learned on nCOVID impact by the MAB members for policy advocacy | Webinar | Mayors, Govt. bureaucrats, Journalists, MAB executive body etc. | 4 | One webinar remains | ||||||||||||
