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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Ensuring Transparency Through Citizen’s Charter and Right to Information

Authors : Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday

Published in: Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Transparency is one of the most significant features of an effective local government. Considering the importance of transparency in the governing system, the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) embedded the provisions for the Citizen’s Charter (CC) and the Right to Information (RTI) in the Local Government (Union Parishad) Act, 2009 (the Act of 2009). Section 50 of the Act of 2009 specifies that the Union Parishad (UP) would distribute various information (e.g., CC, income expenditure statement, budget statement, scheme/project list, decisions of various meetings, report of latest meeting, implementation status of the decisions of the meeting, and all notices and circulars of the UP) through its website. This chapter describes the process of utilization of CC and RTI for people’s engagement in the participatory planning (PP) and participatory budgeting (PB) processes.

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Footnotes
1
See Sect. 4.​6.​2, which contains provisions of people’s RTI that are outlined in the Act of 2009.
 
2
UDC is a specific web address for each UP, which is connected with the national web portal. It is operated by two entrepreneurs. They are hired by the UP under instruction of the government. They are not permanent staff of the UP. They are not salaried personnel, rather they provide services to citizens in exchange for service charges.
 
5
It has been found that at the Hariyan, Gogram, Ghurka and Hatikumrul UPs, the officials of Sacheton and Manab Mukti Sangstha provided CCs that had been developed by their funding agencies. Sacheton is an NGO working in the Rajshahi district on Sharique Local Governance Project funded by Intercooperation Bangladesh. Manab Mukti Sangstha is an NGO that has been working on the project Strengthening Democracy and Local Governance (SDLG) funded by USAID in the Sirajganj district.
 
7
The ICs resolve eligible complaints received from various organizations.
 
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Metadata
Title
Ensuring Transparency Through Citizen’s Charter and Right to Information
Authors
Shuvra Chowdhury
Pranab Kumar Panday
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-73283-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-73284-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73284-8_7