ISDE Bangladesh: 4 days Training Workshop on Environmental Awareness & development held at Chittagong

Thursday, March 31, 2011

4 days Training Workshop on Environmental Awareness & development held at Chittagong

4 days Training Workshop on Environmental Awareness & development held at Chittagong

Demanding Right Participation of NGO representative at the Climate Change Fund and local initiatives for Environment protection

Participants and gust of training workshop

Due to lack of right participation of real NGO representative in the Government initiated Climate Change trust fund management many irregularities held to select NGOs, many business organizations, research firms, individual persons were selected as NGO to implementing the Climate change trust funded project, which is weigh down the aims of the trust fund and it will also hamper the image of the Government initiatives in the climate change issues. Speakers demand to develop separate procurement policy for NGOs and social sector. These were stated by the speakers of the training session on Environmental Awareness and Development organized by ISDE Bangladesh and CAMPE held on 27-30 march at CSDF auditorium, Chittagong.

Kazi Iqbal bahar Sabery, Executive Director CRCD
is addressing at the inagural session

S M Nazer Hossain, Central EC Member, ADAB & Executive Director of ISDE Bangladesh was presided over the inaugural session while Executive Director, CRCD Kazi Iqbal Bahar Sabery, Mahfuzul Hoque Chowdhury, Green Bangladesh, Shakiba Khatun, CAMPE, Shamima Ara Koli, CAMPE was special guest.

Alhaj Raifiq Ahmed Ex Lion Governor & CEO MAMATA is addressing at the closing session

losing session was held at 30th march while ex lion Governor & CEO MAMATA Alhaj Rafique Ahmed was chief guest, Md Abu Jaher, CC ADAB Chittagong, Shakiba Khatun, CAMPE, Shamima Ara Koli, CAMPE was special guest, Abul Kalam Azad, BARANI, Jahurul Isma Ishika Foundation and women leaders Sayma Hoque & Dipika Barua was also take part the discussion.

S M Nazer Hossain, Executive Director ISDE Bangaldesh is
addressing at the closing session

Local and international huge fund was spent to environment development and climate change issues which were uses to experimental basis to conduct study by the consultant groups, business firms and international experts ultimate users community people have no result from it. Finally NGOs become blame and liable to the nation. Speakers demanding making linkages to research and implementation at the field level, otherwise research paper will block at the laboratory test. It also demands to involve the local NGO, CBO, voluntary initiatives and other pressure groups who acting to protect natural environment development at locality. They also anxiously said due at lack of separate procurement policy for NGO and social sector, NGOs treated as contractor or business firms under bidding procedure. Finally NGOs, business firm, individual comes from Khulna-Barishal to Chittagong to implement projects and end the projects there is no impacts from the projects. Peoples accused the NGOs, not the process which is not correct.

Mahfujul Hoque Chowdhury, Chairman Green Bangladesh
is addressing at the ingural session

Speakers demands to develop separate procurement policy for NGO and social sector. Speakers also ask the civil society to raise voice to demanding climate justice, demands the losses to recover the rural livelihood from the developed nations and they have to compensate the affected countries. Otherwise affected nations will boycott the products from developed nations. They also urge the community people to behave environment friendly to the nature and responsive the nature. It also demands create mass awareness on climate change and environmental issues.

Sakiba Khatun Deputy Programme Manager CAMPE addressing at closing session

The 4 days training contends was basic ideas on environment, air and sound pollution, contaminated water, soil erosion regenerative agriculture, climate change and natural disaster, health and environment, gender and environment, waste management, local culture and practice, environmental laws and identifies the problems on climate change and environment at greater Chittagong. Resources person was Prof. Abdul Hoque, Ex-chairman of Geography department of Chittagong University, Dr. Khaled Misbahuzzaman, Institute of Environmental science and forestry, University of Chittagong, M Nasirul Hoque, City Editor Daily Suprobhat Bangladesh, Adavoacte Akhater Kabir Chowdhury, Convener TIB-Citizen Right Committee Chittagong, Sakiba Khatun, Deputy Progarmme Manager, CAME.

Shamim Ara Koli, Proagremme Officer, CAMPE is addressing the closing session

Amongst others 30 participants from NGO workers, teachers, women leaders, representative from fishing community, student leaders were participated the training workshop.

1 comment:

UnknownFebruary 14, 2012 at 8:47 PM
Well, it is good to know that environmental awareness training programs are now reaching a lot of locations and are able to teach a lot of people about our surroundings. I do hope that everyone participates for making our environment more greener than ever.
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Integrated Social Development Effort (ISDE) Bangladesh is a local non-governmental, non-political, non-religious, voluntary, social development organization working in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, including Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Rangamati, Kagrachari and Bandarban hill districts. ISDE Bangladesh was established in 1992, with the initiation of some like-minded social workers to serve the socio economically depressed & backward groups in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. It seeks to create self-sustaining rural communities through process of battling against rural drawback and the social economic energizing of the poor; such a process involves a number of suitable social and economic activities. ISDE Bangladesh is instrument in assisting the poor in working for their own developments instead of being the passive receive of it. It works in the identified rural and urban areas targeting sustainable social change that will contribute in ensuring a better life for the vulnerable people, with special emphasize to women and children. ISDE Bangladesh works adopting the target group development approach and most of the groups are associated with women members. It implements its all activities targeting on purpose to protect rights of the target women and children. It continues its all efforts to ISDE Bangladesh’s commitment through mainstreaming gender in a participatory development process. It collaborates with different local, national and international NGO’s and Government Departments in realizing their common goal of women empowerment, human rights, gender, environment, and education, rural and urban development. It envisages a society with improved environment human dignity and security. Its mission is guided by people’s aspirations that significantly contributes in changing the existing socio-economic status of target groups; facilitate the need-based services focusing to reducing gender discrimination and improving environmental status that will yield poverty reduced better life by enhancing people's capacities, initiatives and commitment followed by the principles of human rights, governance, gender and equity. Strengthen effective people’s participation at all stages of program designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation harnessing local and external resources that will contribute greatly in sustainable social change. ISDE Bangladesh works in line with Target Group Approach as well as Community Approach followed by the principles of human rights, good governance, gender sensitivity, equity and participation targeting poverty reduction. It gives equal emphasis to ISDE Bangladesh scheduled castes and ethnic groups as target groups. ISDE Bangladesh grew to its present level by responding to the needs of the people. From 1993 ISDE started moving to a more exhaustive approach with resources and financial assistance from a number of development partners. ISDE Bangladesh has been gradually expanding its activities in more remote and neglected areas of the country.