Vision: Unnayan Dhara envisions a peaceful and just society in Bangladesh where all people enjoy a poverty-free, happy, prosperous and dignified life.
Mission: The mission of Unnayan Dhara is to create a process of participatory development and social structural change towards equal rights and sustainable livelihood of the poor, marginal and underprivileged people.
Goal: Empowerment and sustainable development of the poor, marginal and underprivileged people of Bangladesh.
Objectives: 1. To develop capability of poor, marginal and underprivileged people to take responsibilities of their self-development. 2. To promote sustainable agriculture for improving livelihood and food security of poor, marginal and underprivileged people. 3. To facilitate the poor and marginal farmer community for establishing their agricultural rights and control over agro-marketing system. 4. To empower the woman, children, differently able, extreme poor, minority and indigenous people to establish their rights. 5. To promote scientific community knowledge for developing rural health systems and establish right to quality health for the poor, marginal and underprivileged people. 6. To enhance conservation and sustainable management of natural resources and bio-diversity in order to protect environment. 7. To reduce impacts of climate change & natural disaster risks and to ensure development action for the vulnerable people. 8. To associate with local and national government and private institutions and establish network with like-minded local, national and international organizations, alliances and coalitions towards common development action.
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Our Focus
Major Programs and Activities: 1. Sustainable Agriculture Program: Organic Agriculture; Horticulture; Agro-forestry; Apiculture; Aquaculture; Livestock & Poultry; Natural resource Management; Food processing;
2. Social Mobilization Program: Peoples’ Organization: Woman & Gender, Human Rights, Peoples’ Culture, Advocacy & Networking,
3. Capacity Building Program: Training, Education, Agribusiness & Marketing,Information & Communication, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation
4.Health & Environment Program: Peoples’ Health, Environment, Biodiversity,Climate Change, Disaster Management, Development Study & Research
Working with:
• Rural farm families and community people • Rural vulnerable women and children • Rural landless and disabled people
Beneficiaries: Covered Villages: 132 Total Population: 115405 Covered Population: 73856 Covered Families: 16950
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
In using traditional fuels and stoves, the women have to pay huge of their time and labour for cooking as well as collection and processing of fuel but, the women don't get even any recognition of their works let alone the remuneration. Thus, the women are discriminated against in the family and by society.
For the extreme poor families it is difficult to afford to purchase improved cookstoves(ICS)from the market. So, UD provided technical support to prepare ICS by using hand-made pipe without any cost. On the contrary, the richer families are interested to purchase ready-made ICS from the market. So, there is opportunity to develop a market for ICS.
UD has been promoting the models of ICS which are accepted by the users but technical standardization was not done. Standardization of ICS for cooking, heating and ventilation is needed.
Indoor air pollution exposure and health monitoring is not presently done by UD. This type of monitoring is very much necessary.
Relevant Publications or Studies
Poster on ICS.
Our Contribution to the Partnership
UD has long term experience in ICS promotion which can be shared among the partners. UD will also like to learn from the experiences of the other partners. Further, UD needs financial & technical support from the partnership to reinforce its ICS program.
