Essay Example on Bangladesh Election Commission

As Bangladesh is an Islamic country and women were an important citizen of the country And for making sure that all voter is on the list In data collecting process government gives importance to privacy and religion value of women For this purpose special women were hired and provide training to them A separate area was used for women to make them comfortable during taking their picture Islam and Gronlund 2010 p 196 The most important factor of this project was working of multiple stockholders with Bangladesh Election Commission it is very important for project to involve multiple people because technician cannot resolve all the problems for example in case of India id card the project was technological biased and head of the project was a technician he was not able to resolve social issue of illegal immigration of people Ramakuma 2010 p 161 So in this case stakeholders were an important pillar for successful implementation of the project Most of them were involved in huge awareness comparing and were very motivated for example as I already mention from religion sensitivity point of view masjid imam were also involve in this project and they were providing awareness to women that it is important to provide their picture for the identity card Asia Foundation develops a group name election working group in which 32 NGO were 

After huge awareness program people of Bangladesh were ready to accept the project It was clear that all voter was on the list Islam and Gronlund 2010 p 197 Role of UNDP was very remarkable for this project UNDP was working with Bangladesh since1996 so they were highly interested in this project and put all their efforts to make this project successful So they start working with Bangladesh election commission to provide technical and operational help for complete voter list UNDP also plays an important role to provide communication between BEC and other organizations to make the relationship strong UNDP 2009 In Bangladesh case one important thing I observe is that it is very important to learn from your mistakes From start to end of project they were trying to improve all factor which were the reason of failure in past for example in 1995 BEC tried to work on a project without the help of any donor and technician to provide voter list for 1996 election and the total budget for this project was 1 87 billion Soban et al 2004 However this project was not successful and it was a huge loss of money Akram and Das 2007 BEC learn from their experience and they were highly motivated for successful implementation of the project than they decided to involve donor in the project Nine international donors were in this project UNDP 2009 

As this project was considered the biggest success in Bangladesh history but it is very difficult to implement this project in the weak democratic country As from history from 1971 Bangladesh try to make the registration process for id card but each time it causes failure due to unstable democracy But when army take over as government PERP project become successful Islam and Gronlund 2010 It is very clear that success of this project was the highly political environment as well as collaboration between UNDP Civil society and citizens However there are many developing countries which have a weak democratic government and every country has different problems and political conditions and cultures like Nigeria which is divided into two major ethnic groups and they are fighting with each other Handley 2010 So in case this project is implemented in Nigeria than support from citizen and political support is a major concern For that s why context is important in Bangladesh case