Goal

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Socio-economic development and empowerment of the land less, asset less, poor and destitute people of the intervention areas of DESHA

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Objectives

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i. To build up institutions of the poor and disadvantaged people for their sustainable development.
ii. To provide skill development training in order to develop human potentials of the target population.
iii. To contribute to wipe out illiteracy through mass literacy program for the illiterate women and adolescent children.
iv. To develop the environment through social forestry and nursery program.
v. To create job opportunities by providing savings and credit facilities.
vi. To integrate the women in national development processes and reduce gender inequality from the society.
vii. To ensure health services with a view to mitigating health and nutritional problems.
viii. To arrange seminar, symposium, meeting etc. on different issues for the target people with a view to enriching their critical knowledge.
ix. To encourage the poor community to enhance their rights from everywhere they can obtain.

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DESHA Beliefs

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• The lives of human being are of equal value.
• In the world, riches and poverty is an injustice, it must be eradicated.
• Poverty makes people more vulnerable to conflict and natural calamity; much of this suffering can be prevented and must be relieved. People’s vulnerability to poverty and suffering is increased by unequal power relation based, for example; gender, race, class, caste and disability; women who make up a majority of the worlds poor, are especially disadvantaged.
• Working together we can build up a just and safer world, in which people take control over their own lives and enjoy their basic rights.
• To overcome poverty and suffering involves changing unjust policies and practices, nationally as well as working closely with people in poverty

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The Development Philosophy

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DESHA relentlessly working with the poor, the landless and marginal people. Its development aim is to achieve sustainable enhancement in their living standards. With this aim, DESHA enables those who participate in this program to gain the necessary skills, understanding, confidence, institutions and services and ensure that the rural communities have the necessary economics, social and environment resource.

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Working Strategy

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DESHA believes to work with the form of groups or Community Based Organization (CBO)s. DESHA has district wise official network along with a range project to provide supports to the indigents. For implementing these projects skilled teams having the skills to operate diversified actions are working at different levels. The organization has a data bank on each of its project area. In the data bank, information on all issues and stakeholders related to development are included. DESHA has grassroots level groups of its beneficiaries, based on which development services are provided. Moreover, the organization has excellent working relationship with different organizations and individuals based on this data bank and relationship. DESHA can easily mobilize the CBOs and skill-training providers in the concerned district, upazilla as well as the project area

The Village Development Committee of DESHA for Total Village development provides a unique structure in which people of different socio-economic group/ CBOs are integrated vertically in a manner that each groups/CBOs can preserve and promote their own group interests without encroaching on the interest of other groups/CBOs. Thus the usual hidden impediment to rural development due to the given social stratification and resultant conflicts between the power structure and the disadvantaged sections of the society as obtainable in rural Bangladesh can be overcome.

The Village Development structure also provides opportunity for promotion of individual family members as well as looking after their community interests through lateral integration of multi-sectoral socio-economic development activities which concern all the villagers irrespective of the socio-economic groups/CBOs they belongs to.

DESHA has enough ability to mobilize CBOs in its working area. It has mentioned that DESHA is operating various program/project in its commanding area. To face the needs, DESHA has established a well linkage with the various CBOs in its working areas. To implementing the various program/projects DESHA organize different type of meeting, seminar, symposium, and training session in its working area with the collaboration of different government and non-government agencies. Due to invitation of DESHA all the leaders of CBOs such as youth clubs, schools, mosques, temples, Chairman of Municipality, UP-Chairman, NGO personality, Social Worker and other relevant persons are joint in it’s those type of occasion.

DESHA has good relation with DC, ADC, UNO, DPEO, TEO, Civil surgeon, DLO, TLO, DFO, TFO, Famous Doctors, DD- Social Welfare, DD-Family Planning, TFPO, DD-Agriculture, Upazila Agriculture Officer, District and Upazila ExEn and Others. When DESHA organizes different type of training especially IGA based training in its training venue then sometimes DESHA invites said respective personnel. They always honor and response to DESHA’s invitation and join in the training ceremony. Sometimes they facilitate the training session as guest trainer/ facilitator. In the long journey of DESHA, it has established a good reputation in its working areas and also build a remarkable familiar relationship with the different type of CBOs and all kinds of stakeholders. So DESHA is able to get sympathetic assistance from all government and non-government agencies and other relevant development partners/CBOs

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