VOICE

VOICE is a rights-based, activist organization working mainly on the issues of food sovereignty, aid effectiveness, economic justice, and the right to information and communication, both in Bangladesh and on a global scale. By building a broader constituency of alternative voices to the ‘mainstream development discourse’ through research and public education, VOICE is taking a stand against unjust and undemocratic practices. VOICE also campaigns against corporate globalization, International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and imposed conditions, trade liberalization, and the neo-liberal hegemony, and strives to lead people to action by raising critical awareness on these topics. Based in Dhaka and Mymensingh, VOICE operates a number of social justice and empowerment programs, with an emphasis on a grassroots advocacy approach and a participatory research methodology that is more people-focused. Through networking and partnership, VOICE is working towards establishing a new macro-micro linkage, in which experience from the grassroots level is used to generate policy support at the national level that benefits the people. VOICE believes in promoting the capacity, knowledge and rights of the people, and providing a voice for the unheard.

APC member since 2006

Topic areas of expertise:
  • Access to information,
  • Freedom of expression,
  • Human rights & ICTs,
  • ICT policy

Contact

House# 67 (4th floor), Block-Ka
Pisciculture Housing Society
Shyamoli
Dhaka1207
Bangladesh
Tel: (+88 02) 8158688, (+88) 01711881919
info [at] voicebd [dot] org
www.voicebd.org

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News

APC Projects

Publications

  • Paris Declaration - Bangla-language translation

    November 2006, by Paris Declaration

    VOICE completes the first Bangla-language translation of the Paris Declaration

    The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness was endorsed on March 2nd, 2005, by more than one hundred signatories such as ministers, heads of agencies and senior officials, including all major donor and recipient governments. It presents a road-map intending to improve the efficiency of international aid. Along with giving the developing countries more power in the formulation and implementation of their policies, the Paris Declaration is based on 5 major principles: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results, and mutual accountability, to help achieve development outcomes that are more aligned with the developing countries’ realities and needs.

    For the first time and thanks to a dedicated effort by VOICE, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness has been translated into Bangla, for the benefit of the Bengali community in Bangladesh and abroad.