BELA III (Defending Environmental Rights & Promoting Justice, 2024-2027)

About this project

Bangladesh faces multiple challenges in environmental governance as well as overall governance as reflected in its rankings in various global indices. It is one of the worst victims of climate change while having hardly contributed to the creation of the phenomenon. As per the Global Climate Risk Index (2021), Bangladesh, a nano emitter, is the seventh most extreme disaster-prone country in the world. At the national level, every single ecosystem and all natural resources are facing severe degradation as the country's development agenda has been anthropocentric, unregulated, top-down, with limited public consultation and little concern for ecological consequences. Pollution and contamination of all elements of environment, i.e., air, water, soil, is high. Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), a non-profit association of lawyers, plays a pioneering role in popularizing the concept of environmental justice in Bangladesh, and is the leading local civil society organization working to strengthen the environmental protection legal framework of Bangladesh. Its vision is “community empowerment and protection of the environment, natural resources and environmental rights in a just, equitable and gender sensitive way”. Its mission is “Developing awareness of environmental rights and entitlements as well as capacity to make changes in environmental governance through awareness campaigns, training of various stakeholders, initiating and pursuing policy advocacy through m…

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Sweden · Government

Countries

Bangladesh

Sectors

Environmental policy and administrative managementIV.1. General Environment Protection

Funded by

Sweden

Passes funds through

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Published by Sweden to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: SE-0-SE-6-14910.

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