National Alliance Detail

National Alliance objectives:
The vision of this network is hunger free Bangladesh and the mission is effectual policy advocacy, case work and campaigns for attainment of the above vision. As a whole, the objective of the network is to strengthen the policy advocacy efforts of its partners towards ensuring food sovereignty at country level first. This Bangladesh alliance, as country focal point shall uphold the vision, mission and strategy of national and Asia regional network named ANGOC which was selected to be act as Asia focal point of AAHM global initiatives. Thus continue to build on national and Asia regional allies strength, take active part in their activities and process.

National Alliance core activities:
1. Advocacy/lobbying and research
- Research and Studies on relevant topics;
- Conferences, Seminars and Workshops;
- Observance of important national and international days;
2. Mobilization, networking and alliance building
- Campaign to create general awareness and pro-poor community opinion;
- Networking and partnership;
- Solidarity and Alliance building;
- Promoting people’s movement for rights;
- Mobilization of key stakeholders and support groups;
- Linkage with National, regional and global alliances;
3. Capacity Building and leadership development
- Training;
- Study visits and good practice and experience sharing;
4. Information dissemination and communication
- Campaigns on relevant issues;
- Publish issues based poster, leaflet, booklet, journal, newsletter etc.;
- Legal assistance and counseling: legal Aid/ Support to selective Partners; counseling to victims.

National Alliance composition:

1. Community Development Association (CDA)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Website: www.cdapo.org
Brief description of the association: "We will work with today's and tomorrow's poor and disadvantaged in the North of Bangladesh. Together we will build institutions to enable fair livelihoods & promote access to the market, address human rights, promote gender equality, and challenge ecological, social & cultural barriers."
Activities: There are 6 programs, each matching one of the focus areas, namely:
Institution Building,
Education & Culture,
Health,
Livelihood,
Environment & Sustainable Land Use,
Human Resources Development.

2. Rural Underprivileged & Landless Farmers Organization (RULFAO)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association: establishment of the rights of the landless poor through poverty alleviation, power dissemination & for builds up a humanitarian and democratic society.
Activities: Awareness rising, rehabilitation support.

3. Shariatpur Development Society (SDS)
Nature of the organization (NGOs, CSOs, etc.): Non Governmental Organizations
Contacts (mailing address - including postal code, city and country): Sadar Road, Shariatpur 8000, Bangladesh
Email address: sds.shariatpur@gmail.com
Website: www.sdsbd.org
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): sustainable development through gender equity and poverty alleviation of the disadvantaged community.
Activities:Micro-credit, awareness building, training education, advocacy.

4. INCIDIN Bangladesh
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association: the Mission of INCIDIN Bangladesh is the “overall development of the community”, with a special focus on a balanced and “sustainable industrial development”. This is a formally defined Mission; however, INCIDIN Bangladesh is acting on areas/projects that are ultimately benefiting the community as a whole in a sustainable way.
Activities: Advocacy, Research, Combating Trafficking , Awareness building, Training

5. CCDB (Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Website: www.ccdb-bd.org
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): guided by the vision and ecumenical principles, CCDB works to create a society where the poor, marginalized and vulnerable people claim and enjoy human rights and justice for a sustainable livelihood with dignity.
Activities: The major activities of CCDB include rural development, people-managed savings and                                                                               credit programmes, work with ethnic/indigenous communities, training traditional birth attendants,  women’s development programmes and gender awareness programmes, enhancing human and organizational potential

6. Nijera Kori
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Website: www.nijerakori.org
Brief description of the association: Development activities of Nijera Kori are directed towards the establishment of rights of the downtrodden people.
Women are an important and integral part of all production processes. In order to break the patriarchal system, Nijera Kori works to change the biased male perception towards women and encourages women to recognize and assert their own position in society.
Nijera Kori feels that an accountable, democratic environment is absolutely essential for development. Nijera Kori imbibes democratic conduct through participation and accountability in planning, implementation, evaluation and overall management not only with the groups organized but throughout the organization itself.
Nijera Kori believes in an environment friendly sustainable development process.
Activities:Group formation,training, cultural activities, advocacy and network.

7. HDRC (Human Development Research Centre)
Nature of the organization: Research Organization
Website: www.hdrc-bd.com
Brief description of the association: “Humane development through research and action” – guided by this mission, HDRC tries to accomplish the following:
Accelerate the learning process of human development
Design and implement high quality research, studies and training in the field of human development
Implement human development activities
Pro-actively participate in policy forums
Disseminate research, study and programmatic findings, nationally and internationally
Contribute in all possible ways to promote exchange of best practices in the diverse field of human development.
Activities:research and evaluation, actions, training media, advocacy and publications management service contracts.

8. RFS (Palli Bandhu Sangstha)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association: response to the emergency needs of the target community that affecting them physically, mentally and environmentally; raising mass awareness, sensitizing the discrimination and undertaking specific interventions after analyzing the actual situation.
Activities: advocacy, group formation, awareness, building training, tree plantation, seed distribution, medicine distribution.

9. Sustain
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): the mission of Sustain is to bring socio-economic and cultural development in the lives of Indigenous population (Adivashi & Marginal) vulnerable women & children in northern part of Bangladesh through strengthening their knowledge and skill to become self-employed and independent.
Activities: micro credit, awareness, building group, formation training, tree plantation.

10. HRDF (Human Resources Development Foundation)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): HRDF aims to assist the victims of exploitation and promote long –term benefits to people through specific projects. It believes that there is power and potential among the powerless and that an alternative power structure must be promoted which will favor development of the powerless. This it is, assumed can be done through education, training, credit services, awareness building, organizational promotion and networking among the poor.
Activities: micro credit, awareness building, training.

11. LDO (Landless Development Organization)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): To enable empowered the poor and deprive and to create a discrimination free   democratic society.
Activities:recourse Mobilization For Ultra poor Empowerment, land & Food Security, resource Mobilization For Empowerment.

-    12. BFF (Beneficiary’s Friendship Forum)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): to aware and increase the capacity and skill of the target people through organizing them and to create their sense of identity, self-confidence and innovativeness so that they can take initiatives to change their destiny by themselves.
Activities: Education Support Program (ESP), Safe water and Sanitation program, primary health care, making market Work for Small Holder Farmers and rural producers (SAMPORKO),Community Waste collection and management program, Relief and Rehabilitation program, campaign for good governance, assess to land and natural resource.

13. Speed Trust
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Website: www.speedtrust.org
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): enable the people, especially disadvantaged women and children, seek to end poverty, and to promote social justice and human dignity to enjoy the benefit of rights on natural resources and institutional services moving towards major improvement in their livelihoods.
Activities: awareness raising, training, campaign, advocacy material develop, hardware support and rehabilitation including livelihood recovery activities etc.

14. GRAUS (GRAM UNNOYAN SONGSTHA
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): to aware about fundamental needs and rights, duties and responsibilities of the landless, unprivileged and prudent unemployed section of the rural poor towards their socio-economic and cultural upliftment through forming an effective organizational structure.
Activities: group formation, micro credit, awareness building, sanitation, health service, rights based Movement.

15. HEAD (Human rights and Environmental Action Development)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association: to demonstrate and advocate the social movement to reduce poverty establish human rights, widen ethical values, ensure transparency and accountability for development. The organization will change the man, woman and children positively and advocate the social movement to reduce poverty, establish human rights, develop environmental action, ensure transparency and accountability.
Activities:Tailoring & Embroidery, TrainingComputer, Training Awareness build up for acid throwing prevention. Working with local administration for good governance training on good health of the people Child labour & right protectionSponsor for children Helping to the disabilities handicrafts trafficking prevention women and children care (Medical Camp)Ensuring safe drinking water Sanitary latrine and change the behavior on hygienic practice IGA, training for Adolescent girls, Aged people help activities and non formal education for women. Pre-School (CFS)Working for Flood effected people, protection and prevention of environmental threats.

16. SLOPB (Stichting Land Ontwikkelings Project Bangladesh)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Website: www.slopb.org
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): the Mission is to:
Help provide essential services in the remote areas for improved health, and to promote grassroots organizations for economic empowerment of the target groups.
Support the development of partner organizations through capacity building so as to ensure livelihood security of poor disadvantaged people including women and disabled people and enable them to have  equal access and participation in and  benefits from social, economic and political spheres.
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Activities: water & sanitation, micro Credit Project, orphanage, clinic and SLDP-2, poultry project for destitute women.

17. KN (Karmojibi Nari)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Website: www.karmojibinari.org.bd
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): The Mission is to:
- Women workers will earn their lawful rights, respect, power and authority in family, society and workplace.
- Women workers will participate in the process of implementing and amending the laws and policies, existing and current ones, at the national and international level.
- The unified women workers will safeguard their personal, professional, social and economic rights.
- As an organised and effective organisation, Karmojibi Nari will become more strengthened.
Activities: Awareness building, research and publication, demonstration, advocacy and lobbing.

18. BGF (Barokupot Ganochetona Foundation)
Nature of the organization: Non Governmental Organizations
Brief description of the association (specifying its mission and activities): The Mission is to:
 Empower the poor, less- fortunate and powerless people in socio-economic emancipation through people’s organization, training, empowerment, non-formal education, revolving micro-credit support for economic activities, water-aid, sanitation, environmental up-gradation, emergency relief and rehabilitation of ameliorating their due rights in the society to lead an active and healthy life.   
 Activities:Group formation, group dynamism, raising savings fund and social awareness building, micro Credit Project, health, nutrition, water aid, sanitation and family welfare, food Security  &  Partnership in Land- Agriculture Resource and extension, mini nursery, women development programme, climate change adaptation, relief and rehabilitation programme, tobacco control & Acid violence, family planning.

Core achievements and National Alliance activities/projects in 2012:
- Emphasizing the slogan of world Food Day 2012, ALRD has published a poster containing four demands and distributed widely through its network members, partner organizations and CSOs.
- To mark the day, ALRD also held a seminar titled- “Food Security and Small Farmers’ Cooperative Movement” at CIRDAP Auditorium in Dhaka on 20th October, 2012 to heighten public awareness on “People Centered Cooperatives Movement” is among the best avenues of farmers’ poverty eradication in Bangladesh.
- ALRD’s partner organization CDA celebrated World Food day in a befitting manners in association with its grassroots’ people organizations in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon districts. They held rallies and discussion meetings highlighting the significance of the day as a part of information communication and general awareness among the member of grassroots organization and people in general.
- Emphasizing the slogan of World Food Day, Amra Protteke Kaj Shikhi(APRAKASHI), a partner organization of ALRD had arranged a seminar on “Effective Farmer Cooperative is the Key of World Food Security”.
- GRAUS, a private development organization at Muktagasa Upazilla in Maymensingh district, arranged a discussion event titled: “Create Consumer Cooperation, Stop Plundering of Syndicate” in cooperation with ALRD on 17October, 2012. Honorable member of the Parliament, MS. Mahmuda Parvin was the chief guest on that occasion.
- Another program was arranged by ALRD at the ALRD meeting room on November 29, 2012, titled “Agricultural Land Protection and Food Security to Address Hunger and Malnutrition” to address growing regional needs and necessity of agricultural land protection to ensure food security.  ALRD’s grassroots’ partner organizations- GRAUS, HRDS, RULFAO, SPEED TRUST, LDO, RFS CDA and Sustain attended in the meeting. This was also formal launching of NAAHM- Bangladesh
- Conducted research on “National situation on Food and Nutrition Security in Bangladesh”.
- Capacity building training and orientation at the grassroots in promotion of local level cooperatives and access to market chain for fare price.
- In country exchange visit and study tour to learn use of organic fertilizer e.g. vermin compost.
   
Target Activities for 2013:
- Organize policy dialogue on “Agricultural Land Protection and Food Security” in different region of Bangladesh to aware and mobilize peoples opinion.
- Conduct a research study on “Commercialization of Agricultural Land and it’s impact of food security.”
- Initiate activities for promoting Share croppers rights and small cooperatives.
- Policy Advocacy for enactment of Agricultural land protection and Land use act.
- Capacity building for claiming food rights as basic Rights and raise demand to ensuring food security by the government through policy/law and program.