Geographical area covered: 10 Unions from 8 Upazila of Jashore district in Bangladesh.

 Key Stakeholders: Chairman and members of Union Parishad, Journalist, Community leaders, Women leaders, Youth, Representative from Political Party, Representative from Local administration and general citizens/voters of selected unions.

Project Duration: 12 Months (January 2021-Decmeber 2021

Key activities:

• Develop ‘one-pager’ describing the benefit of disclosure of financial information
• Conduct individual meeting with elected representatives
• Sign MoU with the elected representatives
• Prepare a guideline/format on financial disclosure practices
• Formation of non-partisan civil society groups at union level
• Organizing media briefing

 Outcomes of the project

• Elected representatives of the 10 unions disclose their financial statements to the citizens.
• Civil society representatives become aware about financial disclosure
• People become aware about clean candidates in the following elections

Anticipated impact of the project

• Transparency and accountability of the local elected representatives to the citizens improved.
• Corruption in distributing government assistance under social safety net programs decreased

Donor: The Asia Foundation