Civic Engagement Alliance in Bangladesh Strategic Partnership with Ministry of Foreign Affairs In Bangladesh, through CE project, ICCO will support CSOs at the national, regional and local level to enhance their lobby & advocacy skills and access. Through a bottom up approach, grassroots civil societywill be trained to feed input into regional and national level  platforms, and, as a result, the overall space for CSOs to operate will increase. In addition, the project will focus on evidence based lobby related to different programs and connect that evidence to lobby strategies. A central objective of CEA is to counter the limited, and decreasing, political space for CSOs around the world. Strengthening the lobbying and advocacy (L&A) capacity of CSOs is central to our Theory of Change (ToC) and the themes addressed in the ToC are closely related to the Multi Annual Strategic Plan (MASP) of ICCO Cooperation, which builds on two main pillars: Justice and Dignity for All and Sustainable Livelihoods.������
SPCC program will be implemented by the ICCO Consortium which is consists of six members: ICCO (lead), Kerk in Actie, coPrisma, Edukans, Wilde Ganzen and CNV Internationaal. 

The overall goal of this strategic partnership is to ensure that CSOs and civil society at large in the global South, as well as the global context, can contribute to decreasing inequality and injustice in societies in order to create the conditions for just economic, social and political development. The ToC of CEA contains three pathways of change in Bangladesh, which we believe will enable us to achieve our overall goal: 
1. Political space for CSOs: The goal of Pathway 1 is to support and strengthen civil-society organizations (CSO) to be vibrant, with the ability to lobby and advocate for their rights and set their own priorities in a changing and challenging environment. This pathway will work on land rights and informal agro-sector labor issues.
2. Realizing the right to adequate food and nutrition:  In order to demonstrate a cost-effective, replicable and scalable model for the prevention of stunting among beneficiary groups in target areas and beyond, pathway 2 will work with the CSA-SUN platform to raise awareness of local CSOs on national nutrition policy and build their capacity on lobby & advocacy. Through the project, local CSOs will then lobby with different public and private sector actors for improved implementation of both nutrition specific and sensitive interventions.
3. Small-producer empowerment and inclusive markets: Over the next five years, pathway 3 will expand the capacity of union level federations of producer organizations and private service providers in policy influencing and advocacy for inclusive market with focus on production, service delivery and market access aspects. Through this pathway, ICCO will facilitate to organize public private initiative platforms through inclusion of public-sector agents, traders association, service providers association and federated producer organizations. The project will also build capacity of different market actors, so that they understand the concept of public private initiatives and have the necessary skills to effectively lobby and advocate for their needs.