Participation of CSOs/NGOs in Bangladeshi climate change policy formulation: co-operation or co-optation?

Fowzia Gulshana Rashid Lopa and Mokbul Morshed Ahmad

Development in Practice, 2016, vol. 26, issue 6, 781-793

Abstract: The Bangladesh government formulated the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategies and Action Plans (BCCSAP) in 2008 through a participatory process involving several CSOs/NGOs and others. This article discusses the participation of CSOs/NGOs in climate change policy-making, focusing on mapping their level of participation in policy-making. It demonstrates that state laws allow CSOs/NGOs to implement several projects voluntarily, but largely prohibit their participation in political decision-making processes. The state invites a few CSOs/NGOs as a condition to receive aid, but displays arbitrary and co-opting attitudes towards CSOs/NGOs that rarely ensure joint decisions in creating policy.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1200536

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