Public health is a domain where myriad forces interact with each other, but none the less each force maintains its own identity and importance. While implementing a public health project, we have to take this into account and give due importance to the health professionals, local government officials, community leaders, health service providers, political leaders, opinion leaders, civil society members, public health activists and many others.

For any meaningful stride in achievement of the Government’s ’Vision 2021’, a more intimate involvement of the civil society with public health advocates is considered imperative. While implementing a public health project, we have always sought the opinion of local community and members of local institutions. RTM took up the issue of Urban Health in right earnest and formed a Bangladesh Urban Health Forum where the policy makers and implementers of urban health initiatives could interact and steer the UH projects towards the right direction.

RTM has also supported important public health campaigns like anti-tobacco movement, restricting teenage motherhood, vaccination and immunization, BCC activities etc. The local communities were intensely involved in the implementation of RTM’s ’Voucher Scheme for poor rural women to utilize pregnancy care service’ under the Demand-based Reproductive Health Commodity Project implemented in association with Population Council, ICDDR,B and NIPORT.

RTM has a number of trained professionals who are committed to improvement of public health dovetailing it with the development of civil society.