The Carter Center
Basic Informations
Over 40 years, The Carter Center has worked in more than 90 countries to resolve conflicts, advance democracy, protect human rights, prevent disease, and improve mental health and support for caregivers.
In ways large and small, we strive to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope across the globe and here at home. And with each step forward, we help create the more peaceful and healthy world that President and Mrs. Carter imagined.
The Carter Center has worked alongside local leaders and communities in Bangladesh to reduce suffering, strengthen democracy, and expand fundamental human rights for more than three decades. From improving maternal and infant health to helping ease political tensions and increasing women’s access to information, the Center’s work has left a lasting impact. Through targeted, community-based efforts and high-level diplomacy, including personal engagement by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the Center has helped foster a more peaceful, equitable, and informed society.
Address
House 14, Road 111, Gulshan - 2, Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
Vision
OWWe envision a world where communities have the tools, resources, and support to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope. We will deliver that vision by doing the hard things in hard places while deliberately transferring ownership to our in-country staff, partners, and stakeholders as one Carter Center.
e envision a world where communities have the tools, resources, and support to wage peace, fight disease, and build hope. We will deliver that vision by doing the hard things in hard places while deliberately transferring ownership to our in-country staff, partners, and stakeholders as one Carter CenteHealth: We seek to advance human rights by leveraging expertise in disease control, elimination, and eradication as well as mental health and caregivin
urWHealth: We seek to advance human rights by leveraging expertise in disease control, elimination, and eradication as well as mental health and caregiving, collaborating with peace and across health programs, and building the capacity of health systemPeace: We seek to uphold the vision of the Center’s founders by working with local stakeholders
Mission
The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering. It seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.
- The Center emphasizes action and measurable results. Based on careful research and analysis, it is prepared to take timely action on important and pressing issues.
- The Center seeks to break new ground and not duplicate the effective efforts of others.
- The Center addresses difficult problems in difficult situations and recognizes the possibility of failure as an acceptable risk.
- The Center is nonpartisan, actively seeks complementary partnerships, and works collaboratively with other organizations from the highest levels of government to local communities.
- The Center believes that people can improve their own lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge, and access to resources.
Objectives
The Rule of Law Program supports governments and civil society organizations to achieve two complementary strategic objectives in pursuit of our overall goal.
- Equipping people to pursue access to justice
- Advancing government accountability and transparency
Major Activities
Our major activities include awareness through courtyard meetings with our women groups and youth forum, supporting right to information (RTI) applications, organizing information booth camps to bridge communication between government offices and community, orient the platforms on right to information etc.
Head Office
453 John Lewis Freedom Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30307, United States
Project Office
In Satkhira, we do not have any project office. We work with the community directly through our local team. The activities in Satkhira is directly coordinated by our country office in Dhaka.
Address of our country office: House 14, Road 111, Gulshan - 2, Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh.
List of Excutive Body
Chief of NGO
Name: Shammi Laila Islam
Designation: Country Representative
Phone & Mobile No. shammi.islam@cartercenter.org (01708528162)
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Project List ( Total Project : 1 )
Project Name : Advancing Women's Right of Access to Information
Doner : The Carter Center
Sector : Right to Information
Area : Human Rights
Time Line : 1 April 2024 - 31 March 2028
Brief of activities :
Since 1999, The Carter Center has been actively engaged around the world in advancing the right of access to information — a fundamental human right necessary for the exercise of other essential rights. In 2015, the Center conducted a study that found that women in Bangladesh could not exercise their right to information as easily, frequently, and successfully as their male counterparts.
In 2016, the Center launched a project called Advancing Women’s Right of Access to Information in Bangladesh. Since then, we’ve worked with national and local government to improve women’s access to information to better address gender-related issues.
In Satkhira, we work in three Upazilas - Kalaroa, Tala and Assasuni.