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Organizational Information Name Contact Person Contact Address
Registration Established
North Bengal Development and Research Centre ( NBDRC) Executive Director, NBDRC House No 128, Road No 4, Habib Nagor, Bangkhan Rangpur, Bangladesh – 5400 Phone : +880521 66212 Mobile : +8801712 441139 www.nbrdc.org, email:
[email protected] Department of Social Welfare- 1418 (2001); NGO Affairs Bureau- 1428 (2003) 2001
Vision A confident, total responsive and equitable society for all
Strategic objectives ■ To strengthen the constituency of poor, disadvantaged, marginal and socially excluded people for promoting their human rights along with gender equity and work towards better governance with more accountable public institutions. ■ To promote children sensitivity in the family, society & institutions and to broaden the access to basic and relevant quality education for children and adult illiterate. ■ To raise awareness for prevention of HIV/AIDS among the vulnerable people. ■ To reduce women and child trafficking & violence. ■ To mobilize local community and poor occupants for getting sufficient access and control over natural resources to ensure food sovereignty and livelihood security along with to conserve the environment from severe pollutions and external threats. ■ To strengthen community based disaster preparedness & response initiatives especially in the case of climatic disaster and raise voice for environmental governance against foreseen & unforeseen hazards. Programme Participants ■ Poor men and women. ■ Poor and marginal occupational groups like marginal farmers, forest resource users (Mawali, Bawali, fisherman etc). ■ Children at high-risk job and vulnerable situation. ■ Children getting no quality education. ■ Adolescent girls and young women at vulnerable situation in terms of trafficking and violence. ■ Socially excluded people like sex workers. ■ Men at high risk in terms of getting affected and transmitted STD & HIV/ AIDS. ■ People with disability.
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Audience ■ Health, Education and Agriculture departments of GOB at Upazila and national level. ■ Upazila and District chief administrators. ■ Local elected bodies. ■ Member of Parliaments. ■ Ministers of respective ministries and departments. ■ Policy and law makers. ■ Teachers and studentds ■ Dada (lover of sex worker), Masi (land lady) of sex worker in brothels. ■ Law enforcement authority.
Mission To mobilize people towards participatory environment, pro-poor and responsive governance, environment friendly livelihood, gender and children sensitive society where people can get access and control over resources, exercise basic human rights, reduce their marginality and vulnerability, and raise voice against structural poverty and non-participatory development initiatives. Governance Structure of NBDRC General Board of 31 members is the supreme body of the organization that elects members for the Executive Committee. NBDRC is executed by an Executive Committee (EC) consists of 7 members, which is elected in every two years interval. The EC approves annual plans and budgets and monitor the activity progress and financial updates according to the Human Resources and Financial Policy of NBDRC. Development programmes of the organisation are supervised by a Core Management Team which is chaired by the Executive Director as the Chief Executive of the organisation.
Program Management NBDRC has a Core Management Team comprising the three senior coordinators headed by the Executive Director, which is authorized by the EC to manage the whole organization. Besides that a Management Team comprising all the program heads generally supervise the regular activities. NBDRC manage all its activities according to the constitution, Human Resource Policy, Financial Manual, Operational Policy, Gender Policy and other ad hoc policies/ rules and regulations.
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Financial Management System NBDRC maintains its accounts, bill, voucher, cash book, ledger according to the guideline of its Financial Manual. Accounts of the organisation are maintained manually with computer (Excel) generated report. The finance unit of NBDRC produces monthly financial report of each project and the quarterly report is submitted to the Executive Committee and Management Team of NBDRC and also to the respective donor of the projects. CoordinatorFinance and Administration, who is an Chartered Accountant basically scrutinise these financial reports and take necessary actions in case of any irregularity (if happens). Its accounts are audited by external reputed Audit Firm. NBDRC also submit its annual programmes, financial and audit reports to the NGO Bureau, respective donors and government offices in due time. Focus Population of NBDRC ■ Poor men and women. ■ Poor and marginal occupational groups like marginal farmers, day lobour, agri labour, fisherman etc. ■ Social disadvanced women group (Widow, divorced, disable husband, masterless) ■ Children at high-risk job and vulnerable situation. ■ Children getting no quality education. ■ Adolescent girls and young women at vulnerable situation in terms of trafficking and violence. ■ Socially excluded people like sex workers. ■ Men at high risk in terms of getting affected and transmitted STD & HIV/ AIDS. ■ Indigenous people like Munda.
Development Approach of NBDRC As NBDRC visions for a confident, total responsive and equitable society; it sets its development approach in rights mode. NBDRC expect such a poverty free environment, where all the citizens of Bangladesh can exercise their essential human, social, economical, political, civic and environmental rights to enjoy a dignified life. The Rights Base Approach (RBA) builds on the development perception of NBDRC over a decade. NBDRC believes that, rights are moral and legal entitlements. They are driven by our societal values, norms and ethics and also guaranteed by the constitution- the supreme law of the country and other associated policies, international conventions and accords. These are the entitlement of people and bound upon state, different social institutions and international community. NBDRC perceive poverty as a state, resulted from lack of people’s access to public resources, services, institutions to which they are entitled and caused through systematic denial and violation of rights by regional, national and international actors.
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NBDRC’s Position in Development Discourse ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Taking stand for the poor and marginal people. Resist discrimination against people’s right. Pay special attention to marginal and socially excluded people. Express solidarity to other movements and campaigns that address problems of disadvantaged people. Resist process and activities that ruin environment and bio-diversity. Practice cost-effective development measures. Promote environment friendly livelihood. Avoid duplication or overlapping with other development agencies in terms of similar services/activities. Perceive development as political agenda, but practice no partisan politics. However it strategically engages political institutions or parties, which take stands beside the poor people. Promote values and culture that respect the differences in the group of gender, caste, religion and race. Protest such technologies which threaten the dignity and individuality of a human being or trapped him/ her as a subject of experiment. Aims to learn from indigenous knowledge and technology. Promote peoples participation to perceive the experience of community people. Equity based development rather than growth oriented development.
Running Program/Project Location Geographical Location District Upazilla No of Union Capacity Building, Poverty Alleviation and Kurigram Phulbari 10 Sustainable Livelihood of the Socially Rangpur Gangachhara 7 Disadvantaged Woman in Rural Areas Program/Project
Physical Facilities Types Head Office Area Office Unit Office Training Centre Club Staff Strength
Numbers 1 2 11 1 12 116 (Male: 62, Female: 54)
Training Activities ■ Non-formal education for SDW to involve SDWs in income generating activities ■ Vocational training to the SDW to acquire skills for sustainable livelihoods and thereby to empower them.
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■ Provide legal aid and support to SDWs to increase their awareness about their rights and get their rights
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Organgram of NBDRC
Executive Director
Program Coordinator Zone A
Program Coordinator Zone B
Project Manager
Project Manager
Account Officer
Account Officer
Office Staffs
Office Staffs
M&E Officer = Monitoring & Evolution Officer FRDPO = Fund Raising Documentation & Publication Officer ER/CO = External Relations / Communication Officer
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M&E Officer FRDPO ER / CO Internal Auditor Secretary Legal Advisor Accout Officer