25 May 2021
Under the administrative supervision of the UNOPS Senior Programme Manager or designated individual, the incumbent will work operationally and technically under the Chief of CISMU and will be required to perform the following duties.
Policy and Evaluation Activities:
Formulate proposals for development strategies, policies and measures for presentation to different stakeholders.
Manage strategic project activities for psychosocial wellbeing including collaborating with project leads to implement project activities, achieve milestones, and manage project resources
Serve as a subject matter expert on psychosocial wellbeing to assure visibility and accessibility of tools, training, and organizational dialogue on this subject.
Manage critical policy work, including drafting and reviewing drafts of policies, guidelines and Standard Operations Procedures that build upon DSS vision and Operational Strategy for its Integrated Security Workforce (ISW).
RTI in Bangladesh: Narrowing the perception gap between citizens and public authorities
Photo: Collected
The Bangladesh Right to Information (RTI) Act 2009 is a unique piece of legislation. Most laws are largely founded on the concept of government responsibility to regulate citizen behaviour, but the RTI law establishes government accountability to its citizens. It seeks to ensure the primacy of citizens over the government. The RTI law is not only unique, but revolutionary.
Such a revolutionary concept takes time to turn into practice and to mature. Both sides the public and their officials need a fundamental mindset shift. Public officials, long used to exercising unbridled state power, must give up their instinctive response to resist and learn to accept the new reality. Citizens, the main beneficiaries of the law and as such its best custodians, are unprepared to play the role. There is thus little pressure from them for change.