WHO WE ARE
Community Legal Services (CLS) is a Department for International Development (DFID), UK supported project to be implemented by a consortium consisting of Maxwell Stamp PLC, as principal contractor, and the British Council and the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (UK), as partners. The CLS is a five-year programme and the implementation period is scheduled from August 2012 to Augu
st 2017. The main modality of the CLS is to provide grants to eligible NGOs in order to deliver community legal services. WHAT WE DO
The CLS Programme aims to provide greater access to justice to the poor, marginalised and socially excluded communities in Bangladesh. Its overall objective is to improve the quality and coverage of CLS in Bangladesh, build sustainability into CLS programme interventions of potential grant partners, and encourage and create an enabling environment for legal services NGOs and community based organisations to coordinate their activities for improved delivery of CLS to the target beneficiaries. Our Communities
Our communities consist of poor marginalised individuals and families in remote areas, a large number of which are women and girls or groups of socially excluded or disadvantaged population under a specific union or ward administration. A mandate of Community Legal Services (CLS) Programme is to draw under its service area a total of 1,162 unions/wards by 2017 by a range of affordable quality legal services easily accessible by members of our poor communities.
