Public Awareness and Community Participation in Land Registration in Bangladesh

Utaran began work on the Sustainable Access to Land Equality (SALE) project to ensure transparency and accountability in land governance in December 2012, in partnership with CARE Internaional UK and Manusher Jonno Foundaion (MJF). The project engaged communiies in three pilot upazilas - Amtali Upazila of Barguna District, Mohanpur

of Rajshahi, and Sadar of Jamalpur - to raise the awareness of vulnerable landowners about land administraion, and to effect transparent processes for a) selecing landless people and b) khasland setlement. This booklet uses case studies from Jamalpur Sadar to highlight the latest public awareness raising aciviies employed by Utaran on top of those already detailed in the first booklet in this secion: ‘Public Awareness Raising Aciviies’.