Bangladesh Mahila Parishad - Norad

16committee members are also members of the sub-committees, depending on theirarea of interest.2.1 The role of the sub-committeesResponsibility for project implementation is vested in 12 sub-committees. Eachsubcommittee is headed by one of the secretaries of the central committee, andconsists of members of central committee, including at least one vice-president,central organizers outside the central committee, and experts who want to contributeon specific programmes.For this review, the team had meetings with the following sub-committees:1) The legal sub-committee is at the heart of the organization and has 14 paidstaff.2) The social movement sub-committee is responsible for strengthening themovement and for political work and employs two paid staff.3) The organizational sub-committee is in charge of organizational capacitybuildingfor districts, and recruitment. It has four paid staff.4) The training and research sub-committee has five paid staff; two researchers,two who are involved in training and research, and one person who works ondocumentation.5) The medical sub-committee does not have any paid staff.6) The media sub-committee has one paid staff and is responsible fordeveloping and maintaining relations with the media.7) The finance committee is responsible for overseeing the financialmanagement of the organization. Five paid staff work in the financedepartment.In addition there are sub-committees for publications, education and culture, socialwelfare, and for the rehabilitation centre, Rokeya.The Norwegian programme is divided into five components, and the responsibilityfor those five components is divided up among the sub-committees. One subcommitteemay implement work related to several components.Norwegian fundedprogramme component1) Social movement isaccelerated resisting VAW2) Political empowerment ofwomen is strengthened.3) Women’s human rightsmovement is further intensifiedthrough networking.4) BMP is effectivelyfunctioning as a lobby andadvocacy agentImplementing sub-committeeLegal aid, RokyaMovementInternational, healthMovement, legal aid, media, publication and allother sub-committee