Making health policy is not an easy task. Like other policy processes, politics play a significant role in the making of health policy. The case of health policy formulation in Bangladesh is not distinct from the universal theory of policy process. In the public policy process agenda setting is considered as an important stage where the owner and the promoter of the ideas use different strategies to draw attention of the policy makers. Findings of the study suggest that the state actors and non-state actors (NGOs) have played a crucial role to highlight the community health issues for policy...

The most horrible situation of poverty in northern districts of Bangladesh is known as monga -the local name of the severe, near-famine situation. The government does not have pro-poor strategies to reduce vulnerabilities of the affected people. In this backdrop, NGOs are working for assisting monga affected people so that they could come out from the trauma of starvation. The study was intended to explore the effect of NGO activities on the livelihood of monga affected people. To evaluate NGOs role in the context of monga affected area relief, microcredit and income generating activities...