ISDE Bangladesh: Training of Trainer (ToT) for Students Facilitator Groups (SFG) started

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Training of Trainer (ToT) for Students Facilitator Groups (SFG) started

Training of Trainer (ToT) for Students Facilitator Groups (SFG) started
Demanding united Efforts to Educational Institutions become Actor to Social change

United efforts by the students, teachers and guardians to ensure main actors of the educational intuitions can play important role to social change and develop violence free just society. If the students become aware about the negative impact of violence against women, early marriage, eve teasing, dowry and benefits of women equal participation as extra curriculum part of their study, they can easily disseminate the issues with their friends and make positive changes towards the society. Besides the leanings will be aslo helpful to develop their leadership and will enrich their personal and professional life in future. These were satyed at the inagural session of the 3-days training course on training of trainers (TOT) organized for student’s facilitator groups by Chittagong Social Development Forum (CSDF) with the help of steps Dhaka at CSDF Auditorium Chandgaon Chittagong on last 8 February 2010

Mr. S M Nazer Hossain Chairperson CSDF was presided over the inagural session amongst others Quazi Iqbal Bahar Sabery Vice-Chair Person CSDF, Afsar Khan President District Social Entrepreneur council, Nazmul Ahasan from steps, Jahirul Islam from LTG member, Shampa K Nahar Sr. Project officer CSDF also take the discussion on the occasion.

The speakers urge to come forward the women folk and protest the gender injustice and violence who are main victims. The role of the students also more important, because they will lead the nation and they play main role to organizes women folk and disseminate the information. They also suggested students have acquiring the knowledge along with their regular curriculum and contributing to develop violence free society. If we succeed no Simi, Rumi, Pinky will suicide by the reason of eve teasing and all will have to live in safe ways.

This is mentioned that CSDF has implementing a campaign on women political empowerment and violence against women at six Upazilas at Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar district. It has developed student’s volunteers groups (SVG) with the secondary level students from 60 schools. The Students Facilitator Groups (SFG) will act as trainer to take lead to develop the students volunteers activities and campaign programs. This is first batch and it provides ToT for 30 SFG members as the part of capacity development support. The SFGs are from ISDE Bangladesh, CRCD, Banaful, PARC, EELMA, Aloran, Nowjoan, PPS etc

Reported: Kamrunn Nahar Shampa
Coordinator, CSDF, Chittagong

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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.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Training of Trainer (ToT) for Students Facilitator Groups (SFG) started

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