Projects

4. Livelihood, Empowerment and Agro-Forestry (LEAF) project

• Strengthening self-initiated community based organization (CBO) and enhances their capacity in problem diagnosis and planning to address problems.
• Awareness creation on various rights based issues and establishment of locally available service provisions related to agro forestry and other livelihood matters.
• Identification of Local Service providers to work as paraprofessional, in capacity building on agro forestry based IGA,s, production and marketing etc.
• Skill development of CBO’s on collaboration and linkage with govt. and private sector stakeholders for sustainable development.    
• Capacity enhancement of Extreme Poor (EP) to select and implement viable IGA.
• Promote medicinal plant cultivation and marketing for livelihoods development of extreme poor peoples.
•    Enabling environment gender relation and equality through concept sharing and participatory gender analysis.

Funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through by Helvetas Swiss Inter Cooperation (HSI)

232.74

21.11

289 CBOs of 6,225 members. Among them 55% are female and 45% are male.

Bogra district: Sadar Uz

Gaibandha district: Gobindaganj, Palashbarii & Gaibandha sadar Uz.

Dinajpur district:

Ghoraghat Uz.

( January’2004 to September,’2012) 

5. Sanitation, Hygiene Education and Water Supply (SHEWA) project

• Mobilization and mass campaign on community and individual hygiene practice and behavioral change
• Community action plan preparation on water and sanitation,
• Group formation and capacity building of water user on safe water resources management,
• Promotion of water technology for safe water.

Funded by DFID project implemented by Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) and Unicef

505.16

63622 Families 

Gaibandha district:

Palashbari Uz.

(February’07 to dec,2012) 

6. Vulnerable Group Development (VGD)

1. List up of women’s:

2. Training Need Assessment (TNA) of them:

3. Impart training on social awareness on different issues and income generation on specific trades:

4. Linkage building with finance institution for funding to undertake     IGA’s by the vulnerable members;

5. Mobilize members for their personal savings.

2300 Vulnerable women.

Dinajpur district:

Khansama Uz.

(January to Dec.’12)

7. Life skills Education for Adolescent Development (LEAD) 

• Basic education
• Community awareness and mobilization
• Awareness of parents and other stake holders of the community
• Issue based advocacy at the community level
• Life skills development

Unitarian Service Committee Canada- Bangladesh (USCC-B)

29.94

2250

Adolescents School dropout  

District:Gaibandha, Sadullapur, Sundarganj Uz.

8. Sustainable Access to Agro-Forestry, Knowledge, Technology and Information (SAAKTI)

• Demand led and affordable quality service at community level and contribute to the development of economic activities. 
• Identify and develop Local Services Provider (LSP) as para professional, form & enhance capacity of their association to sell services in the rural community for a sustainable service delivery system in agriculture production and marketing.
• Explore and under take various community level agro based productive ideas and disseminate to the people to generate rural employment by utilizing existing natural resource.

Funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through by Helvetas Swiss Inter Cooperation (HSI)

232.74

21.11

289 CBOs of 6,225 members. Among them 55% are female and 45% are male.

Sadar Uz

Gaibandha district: Gobindaganj, Palashbarii & Gaibandha sadar Uz.

Dinajpur district:

Ghoraghat( January’2007 to July’2010) 

9. Chars Livelihoods Program (CLP)

          Chars Livelihoods programme is implemented by three interlinked outputs:

1. Reduce the vulnerability of char dwellers through targeting the provision of infrastructure and services by which the char union parishads and upazilas are responding better the local needs and demands, deliver better improved services through public/private partnerships and this can reduce the vulnerability of the poor char dwellers.
2. The poor char dwellers able sustain their livelihoods and engage in improving agricultural production through support to vulnerable households and by developing of business development services and financial development services for the poor aiming to reduce food insecurity, increase employment opportunities/income. This will also improve the ability to cope with future livelihoods shocks. 
3. The poor char dwellers can effectively influence the government policies and service provision as citizens.

The major activities were :

• Socio economic development of Char dwellers,
• Disaster preparedness, management, risk reduction and awareness raising on human and social rights through community group meetings 
• Seasonal employment generation for addressing monga through homestead plinth and community place raising i.e. earthwork for small road, school ground, market development etc.  
• Livelihoods improvement of the char dwellers through asset transfer, utilizing homestead space, human resources development and market development by under taking locally viable some special initiatives,
• Emergency response for rescue, provide relief and rehabilitation support to the flood victim families in the island chars.
• Providing shelter and temporary food assistance
• Development of community level trained livestock service providers for making available livestock service at the community as well as for generating self-employment at the char areas.
• Supply and installation of sanitary latrines among selected core beneficiaries for public health. 
• Sinking and repair of tube-wells for ensuring supply of safe drinking water at char level
• Fodder & medicinal plant cultivation, backyard poultry raring and establishing milk value chain in view to income generation and utilization of assets. 
• Implementing Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) for encouraging savings provision and ensuring Social Safety Net 

Funded by DFID and project implemented by M/o Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives

500.51

1250 Families 

Gaibandha district:

In Belka & Tarapur unions of Sundarganj Uz.

July 2007 to Dec. 2009) 

10. Village Farm Forestry Project (VFFP)

• Rural private nursery development as an enterprise
• Quality seedling production of fruit and timber
• Development of Rural Tree Techno craft  through disseminating technologies i.e. budding, grafting, tree management both fruit and timber and also vegetables.
• Established mother tree orchard for creating availability of quality seedling of fruit tree
• Organize and capacity building of Nursery Malik Samity (NMS) at upazilla  and district level.
• Organize and mobilize Tree  Farmers Group and disseminate them tree management technology
• Promote homestead vegetable and fruit tree gardenning

Funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through by Helvetas Swiss Inter Cooperation (HSI)

97.84

35000 people

Gaibandha district: Gobindaganj, Palashbarii & Gaibandha sadar Uz.

Dinajpur district:

Ghoraghat Uz.

( March ’1999 to March ’2003) 

11. Disabled Development Program

• Rapport building with persons with disability (PWD)
• Mobilize their family members and community people 
• Enabling environment to create positive attitude among community people to disabled people
• Organize PWDs organization and enhance their capacity
• Mobilize govt. primary school (student, teacher and SMC) to change their attitude to the disabled children and create disabled friendly environment for the disabled children.

750 persons with disability (PWD)

Gaibandha district:

Sadullahpur Uz.

(January 2003 to Dce.2005)

12. Indigenous Community Development Program (ICDP)

• Rapport building
• Formation and strengthening self-help community based organization of indigenous people for problem diagnosis, planning and implementation.
• Enabling environment for participation in mainstream development activities.  
• Creating accessibility in economic activities as well as link up with local government administration. 
• Support and promote their own initiative
• Campaign on rights and justice with large community. 

500 families

Gaibandha district: Gobindaganj Uz.

Dinajpur district:

Ghoraghat Uz.

(January 2000 to 2003)

13. Public Health Program 

• Advocacy and monitoring of health service delivery at upazilla level of government service providers by civil society network in accordance of PRSP 
• Environmental health campaign on arsenic contamination, sanitation, hygiene promotion, alternative water technology promotion 
• Campaign on govt. health budget at grass root level through organize Health Budget Club

14. Affiliation with other NGOs, Networks and Forum in Bangladesh

• • Peoples Health Movement (PHM) Bangladesh,
  • Campaign for Good Governance (SUPRO), 
  • Coordinating Council for Human Rights in Bangladesh (CCHRB),
  • Association of land Reform and Development (ALRD),
  • People, Land and Agrarian reform in Northern Ecological Territory (PLA net).

5,000 families

Gaibandha district:

Sadullahpur & Sundarganj Uz.

(January 2001 to 2005)

15. Disaster Management Program

• Awareness on preparedness
• Emergency response
• Rehabilitation
• Volunteers Development 

5,000 families

Gaibandha district:

Sadullahpur, Palashbari & Sundarganj Uz.

(Jan.,05 to 2008) 

16. Land and Agrarian Network for Development (LAND)

• Landless Society formation & mobilization 
• Awareness one khas land related law and acts of government
• Capacity building on organization development and planning
• Survey and identify khas land
• Undertake appropriate IGA’s through sustainable land use.  

Funded by DFID and project managed by SAMATA.

12.85

1,000 landless families 

Gaibandha district:

Sunderganj Uz (March 2006 to Dec.2008) 

Campaign and Cross cutting issues

Apart, UDDYOG Foundation have campaign and advocacy program on various national and international issues with different networks and forum such as Peoples Health Movement (PHM), Campaign for Good Governance (SUPRO), Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) & Action on Disability and Development  (ADD). The campaign and advocacy issues are as follows:

• • Anti Tobacco and drug.
  • Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
  • Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).
  • Food Sovereignty Movement’
  • Campaign on Tax justice and National Budget.
  • Sustainable land use and crop diversification.
  • Land rights of Ethnic Minority People. 
  • Climate Change and Environment 
  • Gender and equity
  • Community Policing etc.

Bogra, Gaibandha &

Dinajpur

district

(Januray 2000 to on going)