1. POs Tiers Base Coordination, Mass Mobilization, and Networking

During this fiscal year, significant efforts were made to strengthen people's organizations (POs) and enhance networking from the grassroots to the district level to mobilize communities for land rights and agrarian reform.

·  Grassroots & Union Level: The organization successfully conducted all 308 planned Quarterly Coordination Meetings of the Union Landless Coordination Committee. Additionally, all 120 scheduled Quarterly Unit Management Council Meetings across 30 units achieved a 100% success rate.

·    Upazila & District Level: All 44 planned Quarterly Coordination Meetings of the Upazila/Thana Landless Coordination Committee (UZLCC) and all 8 scheduled Quarterly Coordination Meetings of the District Landless Coordination Committee (DLCC) were successfully held. To advocate for land rights and agrarian reform issues, 2 major District-level Mass Gatherings of the DLCC were organized as targeted.

·  Federations & Women Leadership: Both the Federation of Peoples Organization (FPOs) and the Women Federation of Peoples Organization (WFPOs) successfully met their targets by conducting 32 quarterly coordination meetings each. Furthermore, 8 Mass Gatherings of FPOs were organized at the constituency level. To mobilize policy and identify critical women's rights issues, WFPOs leaders successfully facilitated 2 targeted Women Gatherings.

·  Inclusion & Disability Issues: In Dinajpur and Thakurgaon districts, all 8 scheduled Quarterly Meetings of Differently Able Federation members were conducted. To push disability issues into mainstream discussion, 2 yearly discussion meetings were held with Government and Non-Government officials across the 2 districts.

·   Institutional Coordination: For poor people's land rights and policy reform issues, 4 quarterly coordination meetings were successfully arranged with PLANET members. At the sub-district level, 10 out of 11 planned NGO Coordination Meetings were completed. Internally, coordination remained strong with 60 monthly staff meetings at the regional office level and 24 fortnightly staff meetings at the central office level. Additionally, 2 half-yearly meetings were conducted with panel lawyers in the Dinajpur and Thakurgaon districts.

2. Capacity Building: Training and Workshops

To empower community leaders and improve grassroot-level management, several targeted training programs and workshops were implemented.

·    Policy Advocacy for Women: A 3-day specialized Training on Policy Advocacy was successfully organized for 1 leader of the Women Federation of Peoples Organization (WFPOs).

· Grassroots Management: To improve local governance, 33 day-long field-based workshops focusing on Small Projects Planning, Accounts Management, and Record Keeping were successfully conducted at the unit level.

·  Strategic Planning: To build future resilience and vision, 33 day-long workshops on Strategic Planning were successfully carried out at the POs level.

3. Publication, Documentation, and Celebration of Special Days

Publicity and mass awareness campaigns played a vital role in keeping the land rights movement visible and engaging the public.

· Publications & Material Development: All 4 scheduled quarterly issues of the "CDA Barta" magazine were published. In terms of raising awareness on land governance and land rights movements, the organization developed and distributed 26,079 pieces of materials against a target of 30,401.

·  Audio-Visual & Documentaries: A video documentary developed to promote "Land Rights as Human Rights" and highlight other crucial issues was successfully disseminated across 30 targeted locations.

·  Day Observation: To mobilize rural landless men, women, youth, persons with disabilities, and indigenous peoples (IPs), 95 out of 96 targeted National, International, and UN Days were celebrated. The organization also ensured 100% participation in the government's Land Service Week across 11 targeted areas.

4. Legal Aid, Progression, and Support Services

Key interventions were made to provide security to human rights defenders and maintain organizational growth.

·  Legal Aid Support: The organization initially targeted providing legal aid support to 20 victims who are land rights defenders. However, driven by immediate grassroots demand and necessity, the team extended legal aid support to 50 victims, significantly exceeding the original target based entirely on the emergency needs of the victims.

·  POs Progression Ladder: To maintain the structural growth and progression ladder of CDA, the independent separation process for 43 planned People's Organizations (POs) was successfully executed.

Conclusion & Summary

The performance review of the 2024-2025 fiscal year demonstrates that CDA has achieved nearly 100% of its targets across almost all indicators. The most remarkable milestone of the year was the provision of legal aid, where the organization went above and beyond to support 50 victims instead of the targeted 20, responding directly to crucial field realities. Minor gaps in a few sub-district meetings and day celebrations do not take away from what has otherwise been a highly impactful and successful operational year.