Democracy International (DI) awarded certificates to 25 young political leaders who graduated from the Young Political Leaders Fellowship Program. The award ceremony took place at the Grandmark Hotel in Dhaka on Thursday.
The Young Political Leaders Fellowship Program is administered by DI under the Strengthening Political Landscape (SPL) project, cofunded by USAID and UKAID. Over 250 young political leaders have graduated from the program since 2012.
The 13th fellowship program began in June this year, and the participants took part in monthly residential training workshops on a range of topics, including internal party democracy, campaign management, promoting peaceful elections, and strategic political communications.
They also worked across party lines with senior party leaders in their respective districts to advocate the solving of key issues such as waterlogging, waste management, mosquito infestation, rehabilitation facilities for evicted hawkers, road reconstruction, and traffic congestion.
The fellows engaged over 15,000 youth activists in advocacy campaigns and other programs in their communities.
The award recipients are from Bangladesh Awami League (AL), Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and Jatiya Party (JaPa). They are:
Barrister Biplab Barua, Special Assistant to the Honorable Prime Minister and Deputy Office Secretary, Central Working Committee, Bangladesh Awami League,
Azizul Bari Helal, Information Affairs Secretary, National Executive Committee, BNP,
and Golam Mohammad Raju, Joint Secretary General, Central Executive Committee, Jatiya Party.
