Advocacy for mainstreaming and sustainable implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Bangladesh
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Dhaka Ahsania Mission, Health, Bangladesh
Publication date: 2018-03-01
Tob. Induc. Dis. 2018;16(Suppl 1):A630
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Background and challenges to implementation:
The Government of Bangladesh
enacted 'Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act, 2005' and formulated
necessary rules in 2006. In 2013 enacted amendment to the law and formulated
rules in 2015.
Government
has been tried to makes a comprehensive tobacco control (TC) law and almost
cover all FCTC compliance issues beyond designated smoking area (DSA) at public
places.
Police is
the core law enforcement agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs. They have
17 training institutes. So mainstreaming and
institutionalization of Tobacco Control Law will help to run the tobacco
control program smoothly and bring good result with the involvement of Law
Enforcement Agencies .
Intervention or response:
Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) as a BI grantee working with other BI grantees and government agencies. DAM organized different activity like- develop
and finalize the different sectors policies through organize advocacy workshop with
relevant authority. DAM also undertake
extensive media campaigns different advocacy materials has developed and distributed.
Results and lessons learnt:
Through
different training and process of doing by learning has created enough rooms
for development technical expertise for conducting result base advocacy, policy
formulation, and smoke free guidelines development.
DAM intends to mainstream and sustain the Tobacco control law in
different sectors through developing different implementation strategies and
adaptation policies and build capacity.
Peoples participation on tobacco
control movement have been increased through organizing various campaign
programs.
Conclusions and key recommendations:
Some proactive policy makers and govt. officials
in Dhaka were found who are actively participating different tobacco control
activities and have taken initiatives for tobacco control. So we can
use this opportunity for smoke free educational institutes.
In future these
coordination and collaboration among tobacco control organizations and other
agencies will maintained for effective implementation of any tobacco control
initiatives particularly for mainstreaming the tobacco control law in different
sectors and campaign against TI tactics targeting the youth and students.