PROFILE OF THE ORGANIZATION

 

 

Introduction:

BOHUBRIHY was established in 1993 at Bhushirbandar, Chirirbandar Upazilla under Dinajpur district beside Rangpur-Dinajpur high way. It is 56 km. from Rangpur division and 24 km. from Dinajpur district. It is a non-profitable and political free Non-Government local organization. Since 1993, the organization has been implementing various types of program/projects in deferent aspects in the Northern part of Bangladesh to increase awareness and capacity building of community people especially children, women, ageing people as well as strengthen of local government by the collaboration of donor agency and government officials.  

 

Background:

In 1993, it was identified that the socio-economic conditions of people of urban area of the northern region of Bangladesh like Dinajpur district were very deplorable. Acute poverty, diseases, malnutrition, illiteracy, unemployment, less accountability of the administration and irresponsibility of the local leaders were the common apprehension of life in the area due to lack of low literacy rate, consciousness and less adaptation of modern technology. Especially vulnerable group like children, women, older people and ethnic groups even general people were severely exploited, oppressed and deprived in the society.

 

The Government service providers, local government institution like Union parisad and other institutions are less responsible on their accountability and transparency. Both vulnerable and general people always seek cooperation and services to their wellbeing from the government service provider, local government and local leaders. They are reluctant and less transparent on their services for the general people. Their less accountability and transparency on their service may intimidation to the vulnerable groups such as older people, widow, disables are mostly deprived from these service sectors and lead their life in more awful.

 

The salient features of women suffering in the area were early marriage, dowry, divorce, domestic violence, and separation with children without maintenance also existed there. In addition, malnutrition & maternal mortality rate in the area were found higher.

 

The condition of children was also worse. They were the victims of unplanned parenthood and were born underweight due to poor health status of the mothers. Most of the children remained unschooled or little schooled due to financial insolvency of the parents and their apathy about education. 

Older people and ethnic groups were surviving in terrible condition; suffer from basic needs such as health care, well food and cloth. The ethnic children were deprived from light of education and nutritional food. They were surrounded by superstitions and outdated from modern technology.

Considering the gravity and magnitude of the problems, Md. Jakir Hossen with some local energetic interested young’s of Bushirbandar, Chirirbandar, Dinajpur area  who are dedicated for the  welfare of the poor people and with an aim to promote the socio-economic and cultural status of the rural vulnerable through concretization, capacity building, institution building, capital formation, and imparting felt-need based problem solving programs and the present BOHUBRIHY came into existent in January,1993. It is a Non Govt. voluntary humanitarian organization and fully free from any Political, religious or ethnic bias activities. BOHUBRIHY believes in non-directive, bottom up, participatory integrated development frameworks and acts as a catalyst with its beneficiaries.

1. Name of Organization            : BOBUBRIHY
2. Contact Address                       : Vill- Tetulia, Post Office- BhushirBandar, Upazila- Chirirbandar,

  Dist.- Dinajpur, Bangladesh.

1. Date of establishment           : 5 January 1993
2. Contact Person                         : Md Jakir Hossen, Executive Director
3. Legal Status                                :

 

Registration Details
Sl.	Registration Details	Registration Authority	Registration No.	Year of Registration
01	Directorate of Social Welfare	Ministry of Social Welfare, GOB	Dinaj-1115/96	1996
02	Department of Youth Development	Ministry of Youth Development, GOB	Dinaj/Chirir/03/96	1996
03	Department of Joint Stock Company	Department of Joint stock, GOB	S-7701 (891)/08	2008
04	NGO Affairs Bureau	NGO Bureau	2711/ 2012	2012

 

1. 6.       Vision of the Organization :

BOHUBRIHY expect to establish a society that keeps Rights, justice and good governance and by which developed sustainable livelihoods ensuring people’s participation especially who are downtrodden, marginal and poorest of the poor. 

 

7. Mission of the Organization:

Ensures good governance and Rights through effective and highest utilization of local   resources, actionable networking and creating socio-economic, cultural and environmental security through organization building accompanied by downtrodden people.

 

8. Goal of the Organization

Ensures socio-economic and environmental development through solving problems and selecting need-based programs by participating downtrodden people of the community.

 

9. Major objectives:

1. A.     To promote self reliance for the down trodden people through identifying local resources, its utilization and creating employment opportunities.
2. To build strong network by different supportive organizations (GO, NGO, Private sector, Civil society).
3. To initiate necessary steps for the down trodden people to establish Good governance and Rights.
4. To spread out the government’s different assistance among the people through making good relation and capacity building with local government.
5. To initiate necessary steps for raising social dignity of the disabled.
6. To ensure food security and health facilities.
7. To create alternate employment opportunities.
8. To undertake faster remedy and steps based on needs through identifying and analyzing the existing problems.
9. To schoolize the drop out children and provide technical assistance through organization building and strong network.
10. To dynamic the programs and its extension through human resource development.
11. To introduce epoch-making changes in agriculture through sustainable development.
12. Reach out the information technology to the people through establishing resource centre.

 

10. Main Strategies of the Organization:

The overall strategy of BOHUBRIHY is to develop society through participatory way and to empower the downtrodden Youth, Older People and children.

 

Methodology:

 

- Problem identification, analysis, preparation of plan, implementation with ensured monitoring and evaluation through participation of community people.

- Build resource facilitators among community people for making every program dynamic and people oriented.

- Develop strong network with government, non-government and voluntary organizations.

- Establish market oriented organic agro-product resource center for organizational sustainability.

- Incorporate gender and right based issue with all sphere of development process.

 

11. Major Achievements/working experience:

The main objective of BOHUBRIHY is to serve the deplorable and destitute people specially women and children. Having that motto, BOHUBRIHY is walking past few years. Organization would like to work in the area of Increasing Livelihood Status, Women Empowerment, Disaster Management, Agro forestry, Local Government, Good Governance, and Child Rights etc. BOHUBRIHY family will have the intend to work all over Bangladesh specially in Char, Slam and Monga area of Bangladesh.  

 

12. Target People/Beneficiaries:

Vulnerable, poor, land-less, marginal farmers, disadvantaged Children, women and Older people But priority is given, who have less than 50 decimals of land, earn less than Tk.600 per month, illiterate, and socially less conscious, unable to fulfill basic needs, destitute and  vulnerable children, who are exploited and oppressed.

 

13.  Working area:

Name of District	Name of Upazila	Name of Union
Dinajpur	Chirirbandar	Isobpur        Abdulpur       Omorpur       Awliapukur       Viail       Punotty
	Birampur	Polipragpur       Khanpur
	Phulbary	Aladipur       Khayerbary
	Dinajpur Sadar	Sundarban       Shekpura
Lalmonirhat	Hatibandha	Shaniajan       Guddimary
Kurigram	Rowmary	Datvagga

14. Ongoing programs/project:

Program/ Project	Main Activities	Donor's	Area/ Location	Remarks
Promoting the Rights of OP and influencing Policy through Cultural Campaigning and Media Work.	Advocacy for older people’s rights       Conduct issue based training/workshop       Develop local level cultural group       Linking with journalist (Print & Electronic)       Campaign by cultural group	European Commission through HelpAge International Bangladesh	02 union of Birampur, 02 union of Fulbary  and 02 union of Dinajpur Sadar Upazila under Dinajpur District.	Ongoing
Protecting Human Rights (PHR)	Courtyard meeting   Evidence based data collection   Referral   School Outreach program   Youth Group Awareness & Engaging   Union, Upz, Zilla, District & Division level Advocacy meeting   Day celebration	USAID through Plan International Bangladesh	6 union of Chirirbandar Upazila under Dinajpur district	Ongoing
Inclusion of Older People in Disaster Resilience in South Asia.	Older people actively contribute to disaster resilience planning and their needs are feflected in community action plan.    Improved ability of a range of humanitarian actors including local, national and international NGO’s, UN agencies, governments and donors in Bangladesh to promote and deliver older people inclusive humanitarian assistance    Livelihood practices of older people in communities in Bangladesh demonstrate greater disaster-resillent characteristics.    Practical evidence, lessons learned and best practices are generated on the age inclusive CBDRR model and Hope training in Bangladesh to educate and inform decision makers on a national level.    More low-profile natural disasters in the South Asia region are responded to in a more timely manner.	HelpAge International Bangladesh.	2 union of Hatibandha Upazila under Lalmonirhat Dist. and 01 union of Rowmary upazila under Kurigram dist.	Ongoing

 

 

15. Present funding sources of the Organization:

 

      Yearly member’s fee.

      Donation.

      Government Fund.

      Donor’s Fund

      Income Generation Activity

 

16. Previous major projects of this organization:

Name of Projects/Programs	Name of Donor’s
Empowerment through Economic and Nutritional Improvement (WEENI)	Plan International Bangladesh
02.  Participatory Agro-Product Diversification Project (PADP)	Plan International Bangladesh
03. Integrated Food and Nutrition Security Project (IFNSP)	Plan International Bangladesh
04.  Promotion of Integration of Physically Handicapped	Government of Bangladesh Through Center for Disability in Development (CDD)
05.  Democracy and Good Governance Awareness Project	Canadian International Development Agenesis “CIDA” Through JSKS
06.  PROTIBAD (A program on preventing Eve-teasing)	Canadian International Development Agenesis “CIDA” Through JSKS
07.  Greater Opportunities for Rice-Fish Production System (Go-Interfish)	DFID Through Care Bangladesh.
08.  Strengthening of Local Government Project (SLGP)	Cord Aid Netherland through Village Education Research Center “VERC”
09.  Women Market Section	RDP-21, LGED
10. Adolescent Development program (ADP)	USC Canada Bangladesh
11. Accelerate Livelihood of Left-behind Older Workforce-2	HelpAge International Bangladesh
12. Vulnerable Group Development (VGD)	Ministry of Women and Children Affairs
13. Maternity Allowance for Poor Mother	Ministry of Women and Children Affairs

 

17. Staff:

SL. No.	Types of Staff	Male	Female	Total
01	Permanent Staff	11	19	30
02	Volunteer	12	18	30
Total		23	37	60

 

18. Governing system:

 

BOHUBRIHY the Organization consists of three governing body.

1. Advisory Committee
2. General Committee
3. Executive Committee

 

Write briefly if any:

 

Though BOHUBRIHY has been facing some problems and limitation, but it has been continuing its development activities for the destitute people with sincere cooperation and dedication of the skill staff, volunteers, active cooperation of Executive Committee members by proper utilizing its existing Infrastructure and Technical Expertise as well as donor’s continuous and effective cooperation. In the other hand, BOHUBRIHY are capable to work in another districts in Bangladesh and also a strong net working with all other agencies ie. ADAB, Dinajpur Women and Child Rights Alliance, Dinajpur Zila Protibondhi Unnayan Foundation,  South Asia Right to Food network, CDF, Human Rights Defender Forum, Ain O Salish Kendro (ASK) and Gano Shakharota Avijan.