Good Governance: Nabolok believes that good governance is an integral part of any development initiative and to establish people's rights, good governance is a prior requirement. So from the very beginning Nabolok took various steps to establish good governance in organization level and in the present socio-political structures. To achieve the objective of good governance, Nabolok took it as one of the main cross-cutting issue like gender development. For that reason Nabolok has an initiative to enhance the issue of good governance in all its projects and activities. Nabolok also took a big initiative for establishing good governance in the local government through strengthening the first tier of elected people's representatives.

Good Governance:

Local Government and Linkage to Community

Local government can neither be effective nor beneficial to the community unless there is a strong linkage between the two. Nabolok's approach of linking People's Institutions likes the "Gono Unnayan Committee", "Union Federation of Primary Groups" and "Union Gender Committee" has shown that such linkages are not only possible, but also worthwhile.

Capacity building and strengthening the Local Government

The Chairpersons and members of Union Parishads in Fakirhat Upazilla used to be provided with training of various kinds under the BftW project implemented until 2003 and even at present, they are included in our various activities under the Nabolok-CARE RVCC Project being implemented in Fakirhat.

Under the RVCC project Nabolok taking various activities to build up the capacity of the Union Parishad to cope with Climate Change related vulnerabilities of the people. Under the project activity Nabolok organized UP's role and responsibility Training, Gender Training, Resource Mapping, Inter-linking assessment, Vision-Mission Formulation Training, Good Governance Training, Participatory Planning and Quarterly Sharing Session in the 4 UP's of Fakirhat. With the initiative of Nabolok the Fakirhat, Mansa-Bahardia, Naldha-Moubhog and Mulghar UP members and local civil society members jointly formed a Upazilla Climate Committee for advocacy campaign to reduce the waterlogging of Fakirhat. This 4 UP's also drew up a three years plan (2005 to 2007) and budget for their respective UPs. These 4 UPs also organized a Upazilla level sharing session to demonstrate & announce their 3-syear plan. In this Upazilla sharing session on 21 June,2005, UNO of Fakirhat Upazilla Mr. Hossain Ali Khondoker and other GOB officials were present on the occasion.