Working for a sustainable democracy
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MAAPSI is a non-government social and development organization established in 2001 at Dhaka in Bangladesh. A group of young and educated people from different educational background came under one platform to...
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Working for a sustainable democracy
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MAAPSI is a non-government social and development organization established in 2001 at Dhaka in Bangladesh. A group of young and educated people from different educational background came under one platform to bring some positive changes in the society in 2001.

Vision
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MAAPSI’s vision is a sustainable democracy in which people can freely exercise their rights.

Mission
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MAAPSI wants to mobilize the people to demand their rights and good governance at all levels and enables service providers to serve the people sincerely thru different programs. MAAPSI also working to combat wildlife crimes and conducting massive awareness campaign.
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Five Main Activities of MAAPSI

Following are the top 5 activities, more detail below:

1. Campaign for establishing good governance and Anti-corruption Center
2. Election Monitoring Archive
3. Media Campaign for Democratization
4. Scholarship...
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Five Main Activities of MAAPSI

Following are the top 5 activities, more detail below:

1. Campaign for establishing good governance and Anti-corruption Center
2. Election Monitoring Archive
3. Media Campaign for Democratization
4. Scholarship Programme for Minorities
5. Networking with local NGO’s


Campaign for establishing good governance and
Anti-corruption Center

MAAPSI is conducting a campaign to establish good governance and uphold the human rights in Jessore district since 2006. In this connection MAAPSI is doing different activities, which are as follows:
Organize yard meeting with general people in different villages where they emphasized on peoples involvement in democratic process, voter education, basic human rights e.t.c. A large number of people especially women are participating in this programme in every month.
Organize Debate, Essay competition, Study Circle and Group discussion on good governance at college level.
An idea of Anti-corruption center will be built where local civil society forum will mark 1 or 2 government/non-government organization to make them more transparent and accountable to people. They will scan local media and collect different allegations from the sufferer and simultaneously go for social audit. This social audit report will be published in different media and sent to different higher authorities to improve the quality of public services (i.e. Education, Health etc) Besides a huge motivation and awareness program will be designed to make people more aware and to build a corruption free society.
Seminar and discussion meetings are going on to establish transparency, accountability and decentralization in the society.

Election Monitoring Archive
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Maapsi has been started a campaign for establishing an Election monitoring archive at Bejpara in Jessore where all the process of election monitoring will be documented in a proper manner. Different organizations like FEMA, DEMOCRACYWATCH, JANIPOP, MMC, BROTEE, CCHRB, MAAPSI and many other NGO’s in Bangladesh produced different posters, election monitoring manuals and different documents on voter education and elections which will be preserved for reference, research and will be used in many purposes. Besides ANFRELL, NAMFRELL, IFES, IRI, NDI, NDC, ADA, Women voter league those who are involved in election monitoring directly or indirectly will be preserved all the election related suvenior, poster, bookmark, leaflet and many research materials which will be useful for all the democracy lovers people for enhancing the taste of democratization and build the image of democracy. It will further build up a bridge among all election monitoring organizations to improve their quality and performance of election monitoring work, which will eventually contribute in democratization process in the world.
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Scholarship Programme for Minorities
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MAAPSI is conducting a scholarship programme (Primary school level) for minorities (i.e. Bihari, Hindu and Christians living in Bangladesh) where they are getting assistance for their study at school level....
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Scholarship Programme for Minorities
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MAAPSI is conducting a scholarship programme (Primary school level) for minorities (i.e. Bihari, Hindu and Christians living in Bangladesh) where they are getting assistance for their study at school level. MAAPSI is providing school dress, house teacher and tuition fees for them.


Networking with local NGOs
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Maapsi is doing strong network with local NGO’s, club and other civil society organization to build a strong coalition for building democracy and establish good governance in Bangladesh. The purpose of the network is to raise voice against all human rights violation in all over the country. This coalition will also work to establish democracy and good governance and will try to get rid of all sorts of corruption from the country.



Media Campaign for Democratization
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MAAPSI published a ‘voter awareness leaflet’ to make people more aware and conscious about their voting rights and responsibilities. About one hundred thousand leaflet disseminated to local people. MAAPSI is also designing some reader friendly poster and leaflets on election and hopefully will disseminate to local people soon. In addition the organization has been published different leaflet to promote governance and human rights in the society. MAAPSI sponsored a cultural programme in a reputed university recently to disseminate information on human rights and democracy.

In addition the organization is planning to establish a full-fledged media center and feature service on governance and democracy for local people on different information of democracy and good governance.
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