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In Bangladesh, most local institutions and infrastructures like schools, colleges, hospitals, roads and embankments were built in the past through local initiatives without any foreign assistance. Even during the first few years of the post-independence period, manifestation of many spontaneous local level initiatives was observed at the rural level in different parts of Bangladesh. These initiatives are effective tools in bringing improvements in the lives of the local people. One of the examples of these initiatives in the recent past is the collective agricultural movement in Maheswarchanda village of Jhenaidah District in southwest Bangladesh that made it a hunger-free village. Similar people's initiatives have been undertaken in different parts of the country, the knowledge of which has remained confined to the respective localities This research project aims at identifying successful people's initiatives, organize and encourage their champions to promote and replicate such initiatives in other areas and successfully document the replication strategy. Local journalists, social workers and enthusiastic students will be involved in identifying these initiatives. Following the identification, researchers will establish a countrywide network. The network will continue to document new initiatives and develop linkages at the local level with other areas for the adoption of similar initiatives after necessary adaptation based on local circumstances and needs. Any interested individual and organization will also publish the outputs of the research in the form of a workbook containing information of all the successful initiatives for use.
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