Community Legal Services

British Council shares achievements

The Community Legal Services (CLS) Programme in Bangladesh, organised an event titled ‘Celebrating Challenge & Change: Community Legal Services in Bangladesh’ yesterday, says a press release. 

The daylong event was held at the British Council auditorium, Dhaka University campus office in the capital. At the conference, CLS released two publications: the Quality Standards Handbook and a series of 13 Good Practice reports for legal services based on the BEACON categories. 
The CLS programme is implemented by Maxwell Stamp PLC and the British Council with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (UK) and funding from UK-Aid. Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury attended the event as chief guest and David Ashley, acting high commissioner to Bangladesh, British High Commission as special guest. 
Joel Harding, Governance Team Leader of DFID Bangladesh; Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Chief Executive Officer, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA); Sara Hossain, Honorary Executive Director, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST); Barbara Wickham, Director, British Council; Jerome Sayre, Team Leader, CLS Programme, and Christine Forrester, Capacity Building Component Lead, CLS Programme and developer of the CLS Quality Standards, participated in the event as speakers. 
Barbara Wickham, Director, British Council said, “Since its inception, CLS has been focusing on reaching women and girls, strengthening the services of the Government of Bangladesh and advocating for laws and policy reform. CLS strives to support grants partners through intensive capacity building so that partners can provide quality legal services to the poor and marginal people, especially women and girls.  We expect and believe that government, NGOs and other stakeholders will continue their support to provide legal services to poor and marginalised.”
A number of distinguished guests including eminent lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain; Meghna Guhathakurata, Member, National Human Rights Commission; Dr Iftekharuzzaman, Executive Director, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB); Professor Dr Sumaiya Khair, Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka handed over BEACONS Award to CLS partner organisations.

Community Legal Services

British Council shares achievements

The Community Legal Services (CLS) Programme in Bangladesh, organised an event titled Celebrating Challenge Change: Community Legal Services in Bangladesh yesterday, says a press release. The daylong event was held at the British Council auditorium, Dhaka University campus office in the capital. At the conference, CLS released two publications: the Quality Standards Handbook and a series of 13 Good Practice reports for legal services based on the BEACON categories. The CLS programme is implemented by Maxwell Stamp PLC and the British Council with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (UK) and funding from UK-Aid. Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury attended the event as chief guest and David Ashley, acting high commissioner to Bangladesh, British High Commission as special guest. Joel Harding, Governance Team Leader of DFID Bangladesh; Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Chief Executive Officer, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA); Sara Hossain, Honorary Executive Director, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST); Barbara Wickham, Director, British Council; Jerome Sayre, Team Leader, CLS Programme, and Christine Forrester, Capacity Building Component Lead, CLS Programme and developer of the CLS Quality Standards, participated in the event as speakers. Barbara Wickham, Director, British Council said, Since its inception, CLS has been focusing on reaching women and girls, strengthening the services of the Government of Bangladesh and advocating for laws and policy reform. CLS strives to support grants partners through intensive capacity building so that partners can provide quality legal services to the poor and marginal people, especially women and girls. We expect and believe that government, NGOs and other stakeholders will continue their support to provide legal services to poor and marginalised. A number of distinguished guests including eminent lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain; Meghna Guhathakurata, Member, National Human Rights Commission; Dr Iftekharuzzaman, Executive Director, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB); Professor Dr Sumaiya Khair, Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka handed over BEACONS Award to CLS partner organisations.