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BEES has realized that being an implementing agency, it has to maintain effective alliances under its advocacy program through meetings, collaboration and coordination with different organizations, media and other stakeholders. It includes policy-making bodies at the central level to opinion leaders at community level and even the private sector to sensitized people at all tiers towards smooth implementation of different interventions. The advocacy program of BEES gives priority to child and general health, nutrition, safe water & sanitation, safe motherhood, monitoring of growth and BMI, demonstration of cooking & home gardening, counseling & communication, enhancement of use of contraceptive methods, RTI/STD management (including prevention of HIV/AIDS), occupational skills development, education, sex education and related adolescent reproductive health initiatives, qualitative health and related behavioral research, gender-based violence as well as male participation in reproductive rights, gender equity, child abuse, child labor, child rights, legal aid services, social assistance for tribal population, etc. under different development programs.

 

BEES arranges meetings, seminars, workshops, campaigns and issue based presentations in a participatory manner targeting different categories including government and non-govt. stakeholders, officials from concerned ministries/departments, community leaders, journalists from different medias, representatives from UN bodies, national and external support agencies etc. Different advocacy material packages are developed and distributed to support the main programs which are ultimately contributing to the nation towards reaching the unreached.

 

Each of the activities aims at bringing a new and bold approach to overcome the obstacles towards achieving a malnutrition and HIV/AIDS free Bangladesh and to fight back all the factors conducive to poor health, education, unemployment and poverty.

 

BEES is also promoting inter-agency collaboration to ensure sustainability of its integrated Poverty Alleviation Program (PAP) and to empower the disadvantaged poor people of the program intervention areas in terms of universal literacy, access to essential health facilities, behavioral change and income generating activities. So far BEES has established collaboration with the Ministry of Land on Adrasha Gram Project; Crop Diversification Project with Dutch Executing Agency; WatSan with NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation; Agricultural Diversification & Intensification Project (ADIP) and Smallholder Agricultural Improvement Project (SAIP) with the Ministry of Agriculture; Micro-credit with the Netherlands Government, Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank, Basic Bank, Sonali Bank, Bangladesh Bank and PKSF; IPEC and USDOL with ILO, NFE, NFPE, HTR, PLCEHD with the Ministry of Education & WUSC-CIDA, Health, MCH-FP & Nutrition program with WUSC-CIDA, BPHC-DFID & HKI and so on.