INTEGRATED WOMEN INCOME & EMPLOYMENT GENERATION PROGRAM
ISDE Bangladesh is mainly involved in building organizations & development of the poorest of the poor people of rural, urban and hilly areas to habituated with savings generation and provide credit support to undertake income and self-employment generation activities. Side by side it provides human and skill development training to the beneficiaries members as well as the clients to create awareness about various social issues, develop human and leadership quality and professional skills. ISDE has already nursing 600 groups and become group member size is 12125, a total Tk.7162885 has accumulate as savings and individual savings become Tk1500-10500. Tk.39033000 has been distributed as credit for income generation to the 9890 group members and outstanding size are Tk.8356033.
If the flood, cyclone or any natural disaster affected the existing beneficiaries’ IGAs schemes are able to get disaster credit support (interest free loan) to rehabilitate their IGAs. The group members who already received two times credit support from ISDE but they have no sanitation facilities in their household are able to get sanitation credit to install the latrine. ISDE also thinks to provide low cost housing credit for the beneficiaries. It also distributed Tk.25,000 as grant from welfare fund to the group member's family, who becomes death.
NON-FORMAL Education Program (NFE)
NFE program is responsible for increase the literacy rate in the operational areas. NFE is implement adult literacy, adolescent and children education. ISDE has been successfully completed 20 NFPE center for 600 children (including the hilly tribal children & fishing community) and open another 10 school for 300 children learners. The 90 adolescent centers for 2700 learners successfully completed. Currently 525 centers are running to giving literacy & numeric education to the 15750 adult learners and the completed center become 1142 and learners 34260.
ISDE Bangladesh has initiated special program to create awareness amongst the tribal people and children about the importance of education in the hilly areas with the help BICE, Switzerland. The main aim of the activities was to create awareness about education and attract the school for the tribal children. ISDE is thinking to develop extra curriculum and activities for the tribal children. ISDE also involved providing basic education and rehabilitation support to eradicate illiteracy amongst the working and street children in Chittagong and Dhaka Metropolitan City. Under this program ISDE promote child rights and combat child trafficking and rehabilitation of the working and street children at slum areas. It has already successfully completed 75 centers for 2250 hard to reach urban working children at Chittagong & Dhaka City and another 45 centers are finished successfully.
ISDE - CU PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROJECT
ISDE and Concern Universal a UK based international NGO) has started collaborative project on Primary Health Care (PHC) at Cox’s Bazar sadar and Ramu Upazila of Cox’s Bazar district from last April 2001 under the financial support from European Union (EU), DFA and Engender Health. The major services providing by the projects are, preventive health education, access to the primary health care services for under served community people, developing self help community groups for health purposes, establishing ESP-health clinic at union level by deploying a trained up MBBS physicians, Nurse Midwives, Lab technician, Pharmacist, Counselors with modern equipment and necessary medicine. The projects also provide EPI and safe delivery services for the community people under collaboration with Government health Department under HPSP, developing TBAs, trained up local Rural Medical Practitioners (RMP), ARI, sanitation and hygiene education and services, malaria prevention, family planning & contraceptive distribution services etc. Actually the project was started from 1994 and now CU trying to hand over the project under ISDE's management for future continuation.
PARTICIPATORY SOCIAL FORESTRY PROGRAM (PSFP)
To develop environmental equilibrium ISDE provide awareness raising, demonstration and training support to the community people as well as beneficiaries. Due to coastal disaster prone zone of the country, social forestation is most important for the locality. As an activist NGO ISDE involved for tree plantation program at roadside, coastal embankment, unused hill and blocks, institutional premises and promoting nursery development. ISDE has planted 154000 saplings and take caring in 195 acre of unused hill (mountain) land, 40,000 saplings planted and maintenance in 40-Km coastal road and yearly 150000 sapling produced in ISDE nursery and sales to the community people. Under the partnership with Government Coastal Green belt Project and Forestry Sector Project ISDE responsible for community mobilization, group formation, training and awareness raising and benefit sharing amongst the beneficiaries.
ISDE- CARE SHABGE-DFID PARTNERSHIP PROJECT
ISDE- CARE-SHABGE-DFID partnership project has performed various activities to promote household agricultural production to improve the socio economic status and reduce the vulnerability of food security. The newly design project covering the 4000 poor and marginal female and male farmers at ISDE Bangladesh's working areas of Chakaria at Cox’s Bazar district. The project services are homestead vegetable gardening, nursery development for extension purpose, homestead plantation, seed preservation, raising poultry, fish cultivation and action research at farmers level. The strategy follow by the project are developing Farmers Field School (FFS) with the poor female farmers who have cultivable land not more then 0.5 acre, provide development education by forthrightly meeting, developing local entrepreneur, networking with local markets, GO, NGOs and individual who involved in agriculture activities. The other services are develop study plot for demonstration purpose, conduct action research at farmer’s level, arrange agricultural fair, farmers field day etc activities to promote homestead vegetable & agricultural production.
SAFE DRINKING WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION PROGRAM (SWSSP)
Due to coastal and hill areas hardship life, safe drinking water and sanitation is most difficult and essential services. ISDE promote the safe drinking water supply, personal health and hygiene practices and improve the environmental health and sanitation status of the beneficiaries through providing hardware and software support for the community people. The hard ware packages are produced and distributed ring slab for installation of pit latrine, tube well and ring well, Pond Sand Filter (PSF), Rain Water Harvesting installation for safe drinking water. The personal health and hygiene education support provide through courtyard meeting, child-to-child school and community, adolescent workshop, school video film show, religious leader workshop, community meeting, mobile film show etc. It has installed 03 deep tube well installed with the support of individuals from UK.
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE PROGRAM (DPRP)
ISDE has been providing support to strengthening the capacity and skill of the community people to reduced unexpected death and effects and vulnerability of disaster. ISDE's operational areas face two types of disaster i.e cyclone and hilly flash flood is the common culture. The services are year round disaster education and awareness to the community, community level action plan for preparedness, disaster preparedness & response training for staff, community leaders, volunteers and beneficiaries and contingencies plan preparation, post disaster response, rehabilitation etc. It has developing village level Disaster Preparedness Committee of its working areas and also providing training to the Government initiated Union and Upazila level Disaster Management Committees. ISDE has distributed food grain to the victim, emergency medical service and long-term rehabilitation support like housing, water and sanitation, agricultural and credit support for victims. Now it has trying to activate and enhance capacity of the Upazila and Union level disaster management committees by joint efforts.
UPHOLDING FOOD SECURITY & LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ULTRA POOR (UFSLDP)
ISDE’s development mission is to facilitate the empowerment of disadvantaged women specially the ultra poor of the targeted working areas. Creation of employment and income generation is essential to poverty alleviation and empowerment. ISDE Bangladesh has promoted a new initiative, the Routine Maintenance Program (RMP), which was developed by the WFP/BWDB to ensure food security for the coastal ultra poor women through creating short-term employment. ISDE started its activities in financial year 1996-1997. The BWDB assisted project is finished 2002 and ISDE included with LGED supported Feeder Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation and Food Security Program. The project strategies provide women with year-round employment in regular routine maintenance activities through which the cost of embankment maintenance will be reduced. The women also form groups and are provided with training to help them become self-reliant. To ensure the sustainable development of the women, ISDE has tried to integrate its activities with those of local government departments and NGOs. Savings and credit facilities will remain in place once the Embankment Maintenance Groups (EMGs) and now it become with LGED and called as Labour Contracting Society (LCS) have ceased activities. ISDE facilitate the sustainable embankment management, reduce the cost for earthwork and create self-employment opportunities for coastal distressed women, which promote the food security of coastal ultra poor women group. Currently ISDE covered the 115-Km coastal embankment under maintenance activities. 275 destitute women get employment through involving care taking and maintenance of embankment. ISDE tries to involve these ultra poor to integrate with the sustainable human development and poverty alleviation activities through providing training, education and credit. Currently the individual savings of the vulnerable women become Tk.8050.
ISDE also has undertaken Integrated Food Security and Feeder Road Maintenance Program under the support from LGED and WFP. The major services are provides by the project are year round development awareness and education, professional skill development training and access to alternative income generation and credit for ensuring food security of the hard core poor and promote their sustainability.
CLIMATE CHANGE:
ISDE Bangladesh has been implementing a number of activities to response the climate changes issues of the targeted people and it has integrated the climate change issues with its ongoing programme. It has become an active member of Climate Action Network-South Asia (CANSA), Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods-CSRL and NGO Coordination Council for Climate Change (NC4) networks. ISDE integrated nature and conservation education, livelihood of hardcore and coastal communities specially the fishing communities, disaster risk reduction, agricultural, coastal fishing community development programme etc with its normal programme in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong hill tracts districts.
NGO NETWORKING AND PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (NGOSP)
To building better understanding on gender, environment and human rights and enhance the capacity and skills of locally developed NGOs, ISDE working as secretariat of “Chittagong Social Development Forum (CSDF)” a local NGO network. The activities are experience sharing & networking meeting, coordination with local NGO-NGOs and NGOs-GO administration, arrange workshops, staff development training, developing various manuals & procedures, information, experience & resource sharing amongst the members etc. It has also initiated to implement joint collaboration project with same models and criteria by the member NGOs. CSDF is now implementing a pilot program at the selected 15 union & ward at Chittagong and Cox's Bazar on Violence against women, Early marriage, Birth registration and Marriage registration through developing Social Entrepreneur from community at selected Union & Wards who will works as catalyst on the above mentioned issues. It also initiated joint program on Child Access through Right & development and human rights and good governance issue jointly with the member NGOs.
TRIBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (TCDP)
To develop the indigenous ethnic community people in Alikadam and Lama Upazila of Bandarban hill district, it was started a special program with the support from APHD Thailand from 1993. It hopes the activities will be expended at other part of the Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) districts. The main activities are developed own organization, savings accumulation, credit for income generation, non-formal education, human and skill development training, tribal weaving and handicrafts. ISDE Bangladesh tries to integrate other essential services i.e. primary health care, safe water supply and sanitation, nutrition education, children education, social forestation to promote the welfare, peace and harmony amongst the tribal and non-tribal community people.
Good Governance & Human Rights Program (GGHRP)
To promote human rights and legal support to the victims ISDE provides education and legal support to the community people as well as victims. The initial stage program was run by the ISDE Bangladesh's its own initiatives. Currently HRLE receive technical and financial assistance from MLAA/TAF, MSS, IDR, CCHRB and CDS. The activities are included civic education, election monitoring and formation mediation committee for alternative dispute resolution (ADR), training to the local mediation committees, legal awareness training and education, legal aid support to victims, capacity building of female UP members, networking of female UP members etc.
COASTAL FISHING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (CFCD)
Coastal Fishing community is one of the communities who still now untouched by the any development services by the GO & NGOs. ISDE Bangladesh has given especial emphasis to development of the most deserving communities. Coastal fisheries community those are most vulnerable group in the coastal areas who only depends on fishing with no alternative to survive. ISDE has been initiated to make alternative income generation opportunities for the fishing communities. The other services packages are health and MCH, water and sanitation, non-formal primary education activities for the welfare of the fisheries community development.
ISDE Bangladesh also become a partner of UNDP/FAO funded Empowerment of Coastal Fishing Community for Livelihood Security (ECFC) on Disaster Preparedness component at Chakaria and Pekua Upazila under Cox’s Bazar district. The main aim of the project is to empower the coastal fishing communities to response disaster. It will develop community skills to cope with disaster and identify alternative cooping mechanism.
HIV/STI Prevention and Education (HSPP)
STI/HIV/AIDS is one of the important growing health problems of the world. It also becomes more dangerous issue in Bangladesh. Under the Primary Health Care program, ISDE initiated health education, peer development, rally, workshops and orientation program to create awareness about STD/AIDS. ISDE Bangladesh also in collaboration with PCA a local NGO based in Chittagong undertake HIV prevention program for injecting drug users (IDU) by personal contact, counseling, peer education, treatment facilities, syringe supply, referral services and social rehabilitation of IDUs at urban slums areas of Chittagong.
FISHERIES AND LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (FLDP)
As geographical situation of the ISDE Bangladesh's working areas, fisheries and livestock is one of the important agricultural products and maximum people depend on it to survive. It has initiated to provide training and demonstration support for the beneficiaries as well as the community people for uses modern and scientific technologies. Credit for capital formation and vaccine facilities were given for the group members. ISDE Bangladesh has undertaken pond excavation program and provides technical and credit supports to the farmers under the support from WFP and Fisheries department. To promote the alternatives of shrimp cultivation ISDE Bangladesh has initiated to implement "Poly-culture of Tilapia with Sea bass for the Utilization of Brown fields around Cox's Bazar region" under supported by DFID/SUPER Project jointly with the Institute of Marine Science, University of Chittagong at Chakaria under Cox's Bazar district. 12 demonstration ponds developed under this program. Practical training and others technical assistance are providing by the fisheries expert.
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE PROGRAM (RAP)
To promote sustainable regenerative agriculture ISDE Bangladesh provide training, education and demonstration service. It also initiated to introduce with high variety seed and modern technology to produce more production. Under this program 2 central nurseries developed for the training and demonstration purpose through not using chemical pesticide. ISDE organizes training courses for the farmers with the help of DAE.
ISDE has implementing popularizing pineapple based multi-strata fruit garden at denuded hilly areas jointly with Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and a local NGO with the support from ASIRP/DAE-DFID. This is an pilot program which is initiated by ISDE Bangladesh at the areas and it will promoted to other areas for promotion of agriculture production, food security, alternative income generation and environment equilibrium at the areas.
VOLUNTEER FOR PEACE AND CULTURE PROGRAM (VPCP)
To promote volunteerism in the rural areas for the welfare of under developed and needy community people, ISDE Bangladesh initiated to organize voluntary work camps, eye camp, disaster response and skill development training for the poor people through deploying local and international volunteers. The international volunteers provide voluntary service to implement the activities at the grass root level through skill transfer, long and short-term placement. Many internationals volunteer from France, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Venezuela, Scotland & Australia were served as a volunteer for ISDE. Some of them are serving, as worker of ISDE Bangladesh along with raising money for ISDE's various program.
Campaign for Non Violent Peace Culture: ISDE Bangladesh is implementing CNPC campaign with the joint collaboration of BDPC a national NGO working in the field of small arms control. ISDE is organizing campaign rally, workshop, roundtable, IEC materials distribution and raise voice to ratify the UN Plan of action on Small Arms control. It has arranged campaign programme at Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Rangamati, Kagrachari and Bandarban hill district through its partner NGOs and Civil society organization in respective district.
ACTION AGAINST CHILD & WOMEN TRAFFICKING (AACWT) & CHILD LABOR:
To promote universal Child Rights Convention (UNCRC) and prevent child and women trafficking ISDE Bangladesh has undertaken various child rights and development activities at the working areas. It has initiated raising awareness about child trafficking, child development and child labors issues through workshop, rally, community meetings, training and IEC materials distribution etc. The anti child and women trafficking campaign activities also done through formation union and ward-level trafficking watch Committee of Chakaria, Moheshkali and Cox’s Bazar sadar Upazila a high-risk zone for trafficking with the technical support from UDDIPAN/Red Barnet and ATSEC Bangladesh Chapter. Child Club forms with the children from community and schools also covered the issues for child protection, participation and development. It has also initiated various activities to reduce child labor by providing basic education to hard to reach urban working and street children under support from UNICEF/DNFE. ISDE Bangladesh is now working as focal point for mobilizing local NGOs and educational institutes in anti trafficking movement at Chittagong district under ATSEC and USAID support. ISDE in cooperation with Nayantara Communication of Asiatic Marketing Co under USAID implementing ECD Shishimpur Model for trained up the untouched poor parents on health, education and personal hygiene related issues through courtyard meeting, orientation, documentary film show. Student Volunteers groups are also work in selected educational institutions are covering VAW, BR, EM, DR and child protection development issues through child-to-child education and campaign progremme.
CENTER FOR CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (CYD)
CYD is promoting youth, child and adolescents for various nation-building activities, promoting voluntarism, create access to information communication technology, reproductive health, professional skill development, conduct study research etc. It also develop resource center for youth and sustainable development field. In addition it develops child clubs with the disadvantaged children to develop life skill and family life education. The child club forms federation amongst the club members for greater unity and dialogue with local government authority. The child clubs work as focal point for the children where they got recreational, educational, sports and other necessary support for their development by the training, education, games etc. It thinks to linkage with Information Communication Technology (ICT) with the children in near future and address the adolescent reproductive health, sexual exploitation. It is planning to implement Empowering Young Girls Women through ICT Enable Development activities.
INTEGRATING DISABILITY ISSUES IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:
Due to low literacy rate, ignorance and disaster prone zone of the country, the main working areas are also high-risk zone for disability. Many people including children become disabled for unknown reason. ISDE Bangladesh believes Person with Disability (PWD) is not disabled but they are differently able. It is need to change the attitude towards the PWDs, so that they get equal opportunities in the society to take part in the normal life themselves and contribute to their family and society as a whole. As such ISDE Bangladesh takes up activities integrating disabled people and children in NFE program with normal children. It also involves adult disabled in-group formation, and income generation with provision of loan. In addition, assistance in minor treatment, and equipment are provided helping PWDs to lead normal lives so they can sue their potential effectively. Currently ISDE is providing services for the Ricket and physical disabled at Moheshkhali Island of Cox's Bazar district with the technical support from Center for Disability and Development (CDD).
GENDER MAINSTREAMING & INCREASE WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE
With the help of Chittagong Social Development Forum (CSDF) and Steps ISDE has been initiated “Responsive Rural and Urban Governance to Protect and Promote Women Human rights Program” at 02 pilot ward of Chakaria municipality and Chittagong City corporation wards using the theme of “social volunteer for Social Change” through developing gender friendly social entrepreneurs, student volunteers, women activities who are active in promoting birth and marriage registration, campaign against violence against women and early marriage and access to women in local elected bodies by the a number of activities. Gender changes activist (GCA) a collective platform of social catalyst who are trying to change the social behavior towards women and girls children and reduce gender-related discrimination in the society. It also works to responsive the community services delivery institution (CSDI) at respective areas through a number of activities in respect of gender related issues. ISDE also implementing “Gender Concept Disseminating at the Grass roots: Social Activism through Social Actors Group” under the support from Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to replicate the “Responsive Rural and Urban Governance to Protect and Promote Women Human rights Program” another 10 partner NGOs will carry out the replication with the technical assistance from CSDF.
ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
ISDE Bangladesh started Access to Justice and Good Governance Program with the help of Madaripur Legal Aid Association (MLAA) under financial support of British High Commission Dhaka. The main aim of the project is to ensure participation of the women in alternative dispute resolution and increase effectiveness of village court for ensuring social justice. The process is formulated through developing community based civic forum (Community based organization-CBO) at village level and union level with the membership of UP chairmen, UP members, teachers, religious leaders, ex UP Members and women. ISDE Bangladesh provides technical and capacity development support to CBOs to do this and Union Parishad become focal point of this programme and the local government systems will more strengthen in this system. The ADR is conducted by the CBOs mediation committee members and Salish were conducted by the village court. The programme is implementing at 05 unions of Chakaria upazila under Cox’s Bazar district.
FUNDING RESOURCES:
The fund for ISDE Bangladesh's various program and activities are raised by the membership subscription, community grants, contribution, grants, support and loan from Government departments, INGOs, donors, Embassy/high commissions, partnership with INGOs and contribution, grants and gifts from individuals, voluntary organizations, personal labor from national and international volunteers etc. The fund also generated by the charging services provided by the ISDE Bangladesh's staff, revenue generation from IGA projects contribution from local community, business community and philanthropist etc.
BANKING INFORMATION:
The principal banking transactions are made through the following bank and account number; Eastern Bank Ltd, Jublee Raod t Branch, Chittagong, Bangladesh, title is Integrated Social Development Effort (ISDE) Bangladesh, number A/C, 0003106000-5950.
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