Networks & Links

Networks

Disabled peoples' organizations
National Alliance of Disabled Peoples' Organizations (NADPO)
Collaboration in the NGO sector
Links
Collaboration in the NGO sector
 
 

BPKS has an established and is continuously furthering its working relationships with various non-government institutions and departments in order to improve the situation of disabled people in the country. Recent examples of such collaboration include:

  • Meetings and a round table with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) to ensure electoral access for PWDs
  • A joint workshop with the national NGO Women for Women to ensure consideration of WWDs rights in the women's movement

BPKS also works to develop functional relations and networks with local hospitals and medical and rehabilitation institutions in its working areas. For example, through building an effective working relationship with the Society for Assistance to Hearing Impaired Children (SAHIC) Dhaka BPKS has been able to arrange hearing tests and aids for its memebrs and to organize Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) camps in its working areas.

The DPOs at the grassroots struggle due to an acute shortage of the financial resources they need to manage their organization and operate its programs. This shortage of financial resources is a result of an inability to identify and mobilize resources from within and outside their community, and also a lack of skills in identifiying potential local partners and developing appropriate relations with them. Due to this situation, BPKS has been collaborating with grassroots DPOs under the PSID replication project, providing support for:

1. Local Resource Mobilization;
2. PSID replication/extension;
3. Collective action to ensure disabled peoples' needs and rights, and to strengthen DPOs.