MISSION STATEMENT

OUR VISION:

ISDE Bangladesh aspires to create a poverty and hunger-free, just society of educated, socio-economically developed and environmentally-friendly people.


OUR MISSION:

To facilitate socio-economic change in the lives of disadvantaged people, particularly women and children, in the southeast of Bangladesh through the promotion of income and employment generation activities, health services, education and awareness raising.



STRATEGIES:

 Building confidence, hope and self-reliance among the disadvantaged and deprived people through organization building.

 Increasing knowledge, raising awareness levels and changing behavioral practices through education, motivation and training.

 Ensuring sustainable development through mainstreaming gender equity at organization and community levels.

 Developing maternal and child health status through primary health services and nutrition education.

 Creating income earning and self-employment generation opportunities by providing technical assistance and credit.

 Developing environmental equilibrium through social forestation and regenerative agriculture.

 Promoting the universal Child Rights Convention (CRC) through awareness raising, education and rehabilitation.

 Carrying out disaster preparedness and management activities to reduce the effects of natural disaster and lower the number of deaths caused by disaster.



OUR PHILOSOPHY:

By involving the people in the development of basic facilities and encouraging and monitoring them, enhancing and increasing their confidence in their own abilities, their development can be truly sustainable.



METHODOLOGY:

By organizing the poor women into groups, they function as instruments for collective action, self-reliance, unity and solidarity. The process of building institutions involves developing knowledgeable and motivated workers who can act as change agents and conduct village based weekly meetings and give training. At these meetings the participants discuss their problems and share information on their needs, tasks, rights and possible solutions. The meeting and training sessions also act as forum for social education.



ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT:

If the economic footing of the poor remains weak and infirm they will be unable to face crisis. The basis of building economic foundations is looking for alternatives based on people’s creativeness, economic rights, collective enterprise and the harmonization of participatory production.



DISASTER PREPAREDNESS:

Disaster preparedness is the cornerstone of any development intervention in coastal Bangladesh. Human lives have to be protected from the changeable furies of nature. Cyclone and the tidal upsurge disrupts normal life and results in incalculable misery. With a little outside help they are more able to master the challenges they face.

ENVIRONMENT:

ISDE Bangladesh focuses on environmental development as a logical sequel to involvement with rural people. Social forestation, preservation of forest resources and environmental education is an important segment of ISDE's activity package. Specialized programs on environmental regenerative agriculture have been embarked upon and organized according to community needs.



HEALTH:

ISDE Bangladesh is views health services not as charity rendered to people but as a legal right. People are encouraged to get involved in the organization of the services. ISDE Bangladesh's conviction is family based, combining health and development functions and ensuring peoples’ participation and accountability. Awareness is the basis from where to fire the engine for prevention and treatment.



GENDER EQUITY:

Women make up half of our population. They are the main educators for the children yet make up the majority of the illiterates. Women are usually the last to eat and in times of famine, epidemic or natural disaster, the first to die.



ISDE Bangladesh seeks to uproot gender specific discrimination within the society and equal participation in family and social decision-making process. ISDE's strategy gives emphasis to organizing women at grass root level to make access to the local resources, mobilization and other normal development streams. It has developed and undertaken various activities for the enhancement of the women and children.