ANNUAL
PROGRESS REPORT
JULY, 2016-JUNE, 2017
Edited by : Md. Nijamul Huq
Reported by : Md.
Anowar Hossain
Computed by : Md.
Asik Ikbal Rony
Published
by:
P R E F A C E
Development is a long-term
process and human beings are the main centre of all developments. ASIF started
its journey in July
1, 1997 to work with the people, who are poor, neglected, deprived,
under served, oppressed and who can not fulfil daily basic needs for their
socio-economic upliftment. When ASIF started its activities, the staff,
volunteers, and Executive Committee members were very new in the development
field and had very less idea and experiences on development activities but they
had strong commitment, voluntary mentality and dedication, which gradually have
been marched the organisation ASIF to this position. Now most of the Executive
Committee members, staff members and volunteers are well aware, skilled, and
experienced on development even the development partners are also well aware,
skilled and experienced on different development issues. ASIF is now going to
be a National NGO as its coverage of the areas, population and program
dimensions has been increasing day by day. The achievements, in the field of
rural and urban development are reasonable and praiseworthy at present. A good
numbers of concerned development partners have been benefited/ benefiting out
of the implementation of the ASIF's different interventions. Hope ASIF will
keep up the present march and speed of the organisation. All the credits go to
the dedicated and committed staffs, volunteers Executive Committee members and
other local concerned departments. We are also highly grateful and thankful to
the donors, who provided us financial supports to carry out our developmental
programs for the poor and vulnerable people. We hope, if all sorts of
cooperation and supports become available, ASIF could be able to reach its
goal.
Md. Nijamul Huq
Executive Director
Associate
Social Improvement Foundation (ASIF)
Policeline
Road, Kumarkhali, Pirojpur, Bangladesh.
Mobile: 01770-494849
E-mail: ngoasif@gmail.com,
ANNUAL REPORT
(July, 2016-June, 2017)
Introduction:
Associate Social Improvement Foundation (ASIF) is a non-govt.
non-profitable and non-political voluntary Development organisation. It was
initiated, managed and led by women. It was established in 1997 with the
initiation of a group of educated social works under the leadership of Ms. Shanaz
Pervin (Shanu), a renown women social worker of Pirojpur, who has long
experience on social work and rural development, especially in the field of
women and child development, who has been involved with Church development
activities. The main aims of the organisation are to promote the socio-economic
status of the rural and urban poor and disadvantaged women, disables, working
children, aborigines, untouchables, and children through conscientization,
capacity building, institution build & capital formation and imparting felt-need
based and problem solving programs.
It believes in non-directive, bottom up, integrated and participatory
development frame work and acts as a catalyst with its concerned people. It acts as a catalyst with its beneficiaries &
community people.
Legal Status:
ASIF was registered with the Directorate of Social Services and NGO
Affairs Bureau, Govt. of Bangladesh vide registration Nos.:
a) FD No-2951/2015
b) DSS No-332/2000
Membership:
ASIF is the active member of
a) Nari Uddog Forum (NUK),
b) BROTEE.
c) Nari Pakkha (Doorbar Network),
d) NGO Forum for DWSS,
e) Credit Development Forum (CDF),
f) HIV/AIDS Network,
g) Khan Foundation and
h) Pirojpur Disaster Forum.
i)
Local NGO Network.
Working Network status:
ASIF has been working with the following Networks as partner
NGO:
a) Human Development Foundation
(HDF).
b) OECTA-Canada.
c) UNICEF/DPHE.
d) ITDG-UK.
e) Rights Jessore,
f) Department of Women Affairs.
g) Department of Youth
Development.
h) Department of Health and Family
Planning.
i) NGO Forum for DWSS.
Vision:
Established poor and vulnerable
rural and urban people, specially the women and children in the society and
their empowerment, where they will be able to live in peace, justice,
decision-makings and democratic value.
Mission Statement:
To establish the poor and vulnerable people, specially the women in the
society through making them capable, self-sufficient, self-governed, and
self-initiators through building capacity, institution, capital, utilisation of
local resources and imparting felt-need based problem solving programs
involving necessary skilled, trained and experienced staff.
G o a l:
Improved socio-economic status of the rural and urban poor and
underprivileged people, emphasising the women and children and also empowerment
through undertaking appropriate and sustainable programmes, where available
people, justice, human rights, social harmony and democratic values.
Targeted Beneficiaries:
Mainly the rural and urban and also tea gardens’ poor and vulnerable
women are the targeted beneficiaries but priority is given, who have less than
50 decimals of land, earn less than Tk.500/- per month, per member, illiterate,
and socially less conscious, unable to fulfil basic needs, expenditures are
greater than income, provides at least 200 days manual labour, destitute and
vulnerable children, who are exploited and oppressed.
Implementation
Strategy:
Organised groups are the main wheels of all activity implementations.
Firstly, the beneficiaries are identified and organised into small groups and
given consciousness through continuous motivation, discussions in group
meetings, and non-formal education. Projects are planned and implemented
adopting bottom up participatory process considering the felt needs, and problems
of the group members and their recommendations. Fullest participation of the
beneficiaries is ensured in planning, execution and evaluation for better
understanding and effective results. Apart from the target group approach,
community approach are also adopted considering the common issues, which cover
whole the community people like EPI, safe water and Sanitation, education,
process of democracy, environment, disaster preparedness & management.
Organisational
Management:
The General Council of 21 members of the organisation is the highest
policy formulation body and meets once in a year to review and approve plans,
budgets, expenditures, and progresses and also formulate policy decisions and
elect Executive Committee for 2 years. The Executive Committee (EC) of 7
members meets quarterly to approve and review the quarterly plans, budgets,
expenditures and progresses and makes policy decisions. The Executive Director
materialises decisions through his staff and volunteers.
Working/Operational Areas:
District. Upazilla. Union. No. of Villages
1. Pirojpur. 1.
Pirojpur Sadar. 06 25
2.
Zianagar. 05 20
3.
Nazirpur. 04 20
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01. 03. 15. 65.
The areas are on the dangerous rivers Madhumati, etc. very near to the Bay of Bengal a very disaster prone and coastal belt,
remote, hardship communicated, waterlogged, and riverine area. The areas are neglected,
underprivileged, disadvantaged and low-lying, and highly poverty-stricken area,
where live the poorest of the poor people and 50% is females, who are deprived
of all human rights and victims of different violence and abuses..
PRESENT ACTIVITIES:
Motivation and Group Formation:
The main goal of the
organisation is to organise the rural and urban illiterate and unconscious
people, motivate them, educate them, makes knowledge able in different issues
which are life and livelihood oriented. Because most of the targeted people are
suffering from civics inertia, who should be make socially conscious and active
for their own family development through involving small income generating
activities and also raising own capital. So, the targeted people are identified
and motivated for understanding the goal and objectives of the organisation.
When they become self-motivated and felt need of organising, the staff
organised them into small groups and inter-group structure for their
empowerment, socio-economic development, and participation in policy decision
making processes. These groups are the main wheels of all program
implementations. These groups are formed considering the age, economic
condition, literacy situation, caste, sex, etc. Each group includes 15 to 25
members and each group has one Executive Director, one Secretary and one
Cashier to run and lead the group activities. So far ASIF has been organised 161
groups with 3250 women members (women). Every group member saves weekly Tk.5/-
to Tk.10/- in her group account. So far group’s members have raised Tk.19,75,500/-.
The group meets weekly basis. Generally the male groups sits at night and the
female group sits at daytime. The group meetings discussion topics are;
a) Identification of local
resources, and ensuring their best uses,
b) Technique for getting local
government facilities,
c) Importance of weekly group
meetings and savings,
d) Income generating activities,
e) Primary health, nutrition and
Family Welfare,
f) Gender issues,
g) Environment development,
h) legal education,
i)
Livestock rearing,
j)
Use of savings,
k) Democracy practice,
l)
Water and sanitation,
m) EPI,
n) Neat and cleanliness etc.
Impact:
Ø A favourable atmosphere has
developed in the area for imparting development interventions.
Ø Unity, solidarity, and
reciprocal cooperation have developed.
Ø People's attitudes and outlook
have changed and their participation in development activities has increased.
Ø People are utilising local
resources properly.
Ø Target people are becoming
empowered gradually.
Training,
Seminar and Workshop:
Training, seminar and workshop play a very important role in the field
of development. So, ASIF emphasises on training very much and it has developed
a special Training Cell with experienced, skilled and qualified Training
personnel. For increasing the capacity and efficiency of the staff members as
well as the beneficiaries the organisation arranges training courses, workshops
and seminars for the staff and beneficiaries internally and externally to
increase the efficiency, skills and to change the attitudes of them by which
they capably and efficiently perform their responsibilities and duties in a
proper and effective manner. During the reporting period, the following
training, seminar and workshops were arranged:
Information
of Training, Seminar and Workshop
Sl. Nature of
Training. Duration.
Participants. Total. Nature
of
No. male - female participants
A. Group
Members' Training:
1. Human
Development. 3 days. 00
475 475 Group
members.
2. Leadership
and
Group
management. 3 days. 00
475 475 Group
Leaders.
3. Accounts
management. 3 days. 00 125 125 Group
Cashiers.
4. Vegetable
cultivation. 3 days. 00 550 550 Group
members.
Homestead/kitchen
gardening.
5. Poultry
rearing. 3 days.
00 550 550 Group
members.
6. Gender
Development. 3 days. 00 360 360 Group
members.
7. Primary
Health care. 3 days. 00
475 475 Group
members.
8. Human
Rights. 3 days.
00 575 575 Group
members.
9. Women's
rights. 3 days.
00 575 575 Group
members.
10. IGA &
Credit management. 3 days.
00 480 480 Group
members.
B. Staff
Members' Training:
1. Group formation and
management. 5 days. 06 20 26 Staff
members.
2. Savings and
Credit
management. 5
days. 07 20
27 Staff
members.
3. Accounts management. 5 days 07
20 27 Staff
members.
4. Project Planning and
Management. 7 days. 04 11 15 Staff
members.
5. Leadership and
management. 5 days. 05 17 22 Staff
members.
6. Monitoring and evaluation. 5
days. 04 06
10 Staff
members.
7. Legal Aid. 6
days. 07 14 21 Staff members.
8. Gender Development. 5
days. 08 12 20 Staff members.
C. Workshop:
1. Disaster Preparedness
and
management. 1 day. 13 20 33 Staff
members.
2. Disaster Preparedness
and
Management. 1 day. 00 1300 1300 Group
members.
3. Water and sanitation. 1
day. 00 1400
1400 Group
members.
D. Seminars:
1. Women's rights day. 1
day. 00 1245 1245 Group
members
community
people.
2. Gender and Development. 1
day. 1225 1225 2450 Do.
Impacts:
Ø Knowledge, experiences,
efficiency and skills of staff members and beneficiaries and also the community
people have changed a lot.
Ø Natural practices have changed.
Ø Performed the responsibilities
and duties effectively and properly.
Ø Leadership and Management
capacity have increased among the staff members as well as the beneficiaries.
Child and Adult Education:
ASIF feels education is the main and important factor for all
development activities. So, education gets top priority in every case of
development affairs. ASIF educates the targeted women in different ways to
raise their level of understanding before starting any project activities and
to eradicate illiteracy. To this end, ASIF emphasise adult education and child
education programs. So far 1575 adults and 1050 children have been made
literate and developed school going habit. Still ASIF is running 10 literacy
centres with 300 learners and 10 children schools with 300 students (children).
All the learners are women and among the students 70 percent is girls.
Impacts:
Ø Literacy rate has increased.
Ø School going habit has increased
among the children and attends school regularly.
Ø Drop out rate has reduced.
Ø Social obstacles of women have
reduced.
Ø Believe on superstition has
reduced.
Ø People realise the value of
education and new education institutions are being established.
Credit
program for IGA:
ASIF seems, for the economic
development of the poor group members, employment and income-earning
opportunities should be created. But they have no capital and skills. So, ASIF supports
them with seed capital and skills training for undertaking small income generating
projects. For this purpose, ASIF used group savings and external supports.
During the reporting period, a total of 1070 group members have been provided
credit support Tk.22,70,000/- for small trades, mat making, rice
husking/processing, small shop keeping, and small business, poultry rearing,
nursery development, cow rearing etc. Out of Tk.22,70,000/-, Tk.17,50,000/-
app. has been realised already and the realised money is being revolved
continuously, 15% service charge is taken yearly and instalments are collected
weekly basis, by which the participants do not feel burden. The realisation
rate about 99% and satisfactory. Detail are given below:
Details of
Credit program
Sl. Nature of IGA. Total
Loaners. Total Taka.
No. male female Total.
1. Homestead
gardening. 00 350 350 Tk.400,000/-
2. Duck
and poultry rearing. 00
225 225 Tk.550,000/-
3. Handicrafts
dev. 00 130 130 Tk.260,000/-
4. Bamboo
& cane goods making. 00
125 125 Tk.250,000/-
5. Mat
making. 00
115 115 Tk.130,000/-
6. Rice
husking/processing. 00
50 50 Tk.230,000/-
7. Small
trades. 00 30 30 Tk.120,000/-
8. Nursery
Dev. 00
20 20 Tk.120,000/-
9. Sewing. 00 25 25 Tk.210,000/-
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Total
00 1070 1070 Tk.2270,000/-
Impact:
Ø Scopes of employment and earning
have increased.
Ø Money lending business has lost
its monopoly trade and influence.
Ø Social value and dignity of the
women have increased in family as well as in the society.
Ø Their family economic condition
has improved and fulfilling the basic needs.
Ø It has created social
emancipation and more women are involving in economic activities.
Women Development:
Half of the population of the country is female. But most of them are
illiterate, socially less conscious, malnourished, poor ad deprived by
traditional cultural norms. The women enjoy less status compare to men. The
discrimination starts at birth and continues up to death. The women are not
socially well permitted to go out of the family, participate in education and
economic activities. They are the victims of social diseases like divorce,
abandoned, husband separation, polygamy, dowry early marriage, and torturing.
Moreover being a traditional segregated society, women are often denied to
access to many opportunities. The endemic poverty, wide spread malnutrition,
illiteracy and deprivation of socio-economic rights are common in the society.
ASIF has the strategy to integrate all women issues into its on going
activities rather than tackling it as a segregate issue. Following points
reflect in the women development:
In group formation, human and skill development training, credit and
other programs’ women's participation has been raised. It is notable here that
about 100 percent groups are of females and about 100 percent participants of
other programs are females. About 100 percent credit supports go to females.
After all much emphasis is given to females in all programs of ASIF.
All adult education learners are women and in NFPE, about 70 % students
is female. It has been done to increase the literacy rate of females. Health,
Nutrition, MCH and Family Welfare education and supplies are given to the
females to improve their health, reduce population growth and protect their
interest.
Impact:
Ø Gender discrimination has
reduced and relation has improved.
Ø Women's social value and
participation in decision-makings have increased and getting rights, legal
wages etc.
Ø Social diseases like dowry,
divorce, abandon, husband separation and torturing have reduced a lot.
Ø Women are not treated as the
burden of the society and family but they now treated as the income source of
the family.
Ø Traditional social out look
towards women has changed.
Health, Nutrition and Family Welfare Motivation:
Health:
To develop a healthy community in the operation area ASIF has been
implementing primary health, Nutrition, and Family Welfare motivation and
education activities. The staff members of the organisation educate and
motivate the group members through group meetings, personnel contact, and house
to house visits. During discussion on health topics, they use flip charts,
posters, etc. for easy understanding of the group members. Different seminars
and workshops are arranged to create mass awareness on health. ASIF has been
running on clinic with 30 beds, where 2 doctors and 2 staff nurses are giving
services to the poor patients day and night with very minimum costs. The main
activities are check up, health education, treatment, prenatal care, post natal
care, safe delivery services, counselling, simple operations, physical therapy,
etc.
Impacts:
Ø Common diseases have reduced',
Ø People practice health education,
Ø Community health has become improved.
Nutrition:
To overcome nutritional deficiency and ensure nutritional food
available, ASIF has been educating the people about nutrition. The staff
continuously education and motivate the group members for developing kitchen
gardens, balance diets, nutrition rich food staff and also their processing.
Impact:
Ø People have become habituated
with vegetable cultivation and their uses.
Ø Nutritional deficiency has
minimised.
Ø People are aware about
nutritional foodstuffs.
Family
Welfare:
ASIF emphasises Family Welfare
among the group members to reduce population growth rate and to make planned
family considering their family economic condition. The staff members motivate,
educate and encourage the group members to practice. The staff refers the acceptors
to the Upazilla Health Complex for ligation, Vasectomy, Copper-T etc. The
organisation collects contraceptives from the Upazilla Health Complex and
ensures supplies to the acceptors. So far 1575 group members have been covered,
who are practising Family Welfare methods.
Impact:
Ø Growth rate has minimised.
Ø Developed planned families.
Ø Created social emancipation and
more people are becoming interested on planned families.
Ø Poverty is minimised.
E P I:
The Bangladesh Government has been imparting EPI in the whole country
for the children to save them from 6 serious diseases. The ASIF has been
helping the Government program EPI in different ways i.e. motivate and
encourage the parents, women and the children for accepting EPI through house
visits and identifying children and send them to the centres for vaccination.
Impact:
Ø Mortality rate of the children
and mothers has minimised.
Ø Reduced serious diseases.
Ø Mass awareness has created among
the community.
Water
and Sanitation:
In rural and urban areas of Bangladesh, generally the people do
not use pure drinking water and water sealed latrines. As a result different
water borne diseases spread out and attacks the people and kills lot of
valuable lives every year at undue period.
Considering the importance ASIF
has been implementing pure drinking water supply and sanitation programs in the
project areas with the cooperation of UNICEF/DPHE and other donors. The main
activities are to motivate, educate and encourage practices and also to change
their present attitudes and habits, install tube wells, install water sealed
latrines and to develop Village Sanitation Centres (VSC). ASIF arranges
different documentary film shows on water and sanitation and observe different
related days to change the people's mind and to create mass awareness among the
people on use of pure drinking water and water sealed latrines to prevent water
borne diseases for their secured lives. The staffs of ASIF, educates and
motivate the people through group meetings, house to house visits, and personal
contacts and arranging gatherings. ASIF has developed one VS Centre, where
rings and slabs are produced and supplied to the beneficiaries as well as the
community people. So, far ASIF has been installed 568 water sealed latrines and
33 tube wells in the operational areas covering app. 7000 people.
Impacts:
Ø Environmental pollution has
minimised.
Ø Water borne diseases are
minimised.
Ø Healthy atmosphere has
developed.
Ø Mortality rate is minimised.
Social
Afforestation Program:
To prevent environmental degradation ASIF has been implementing
different kind of programs in the operational areas. Social Afforestation
program is one of them. ASIF has been implementing social Afforestation in the
all project areas intensively and extensively. The main components of this
program are: a) Nursery development for production of saplings and supply, b)
Homestead based plantation, c) Community based plantation and d) Kitchen
gardening. The staff of the organisation motivate and encourage the group
members and the community people to produce and plant trees and for developing
kitchen gardening at their homestead lands. They also motivate and encourage
not cut any trees, about the bad affects of environmental degradation and
pollution, how to prevent pollution etc. ASIF has developed a small Nursery
near the Office from where yearly 8000 saplings are produced and supplied to
the community people with production cost. So far ASIF has been provided and
planted 8000 saplings through 500 families of beneficiaries and community
people. Among those, 3000 saplings were planted in community places. A total of
111 families have developed kitchen gardens in their homestead lands. The
demand is increasing gradually day by day, which proves that the people are
aware about environmental pollution and tree plantation.
Indicators/Impacts:
a) Aware community people on tree
plantation and involved with tree plantation activities.
b) Create mass movement among the
people for increasing tree plantation.
c) Increased trees and fruits
productions in different sectors.
d) Created employment opportunities
in forestry sectors.
e) Food stuffs have become
available among the poor people.
f)
Fallow lands and homesteads are well utilized for fruit production
purposes.
Legal Aid
Education:
The rural and urban people are not conscious at all about their legal
rights, legal laws etc. So, they become victims and cheated by the Matabbars
and touts being misguided. ASIF has been educating targeted people on legal
education, arrange workshops and rallies on legal rights, women's rights,
arrange mediation meetings with the conflictor and also provides legal supports
to the poor victims.
Impact:
Ø Divorce, abandon, husband
separation, and oppression are minimised.
Ø Dowry is minimised.
Ø Women are getting value, legal
wages, and rights.
Handicrafts
works:
ASIF has been working on rural and urban handicrafts development for the
poor women to create employment and income earning opportunities for their
rehabilitation. Mainly Naksh Kantha, busket, bags, purse, stitching shares,
wall mats, table mats etc. are prepared by the poor women through providing
training and then those products are sold in the markets. A total 150 women are
involved with these activities, which are getting incomes and employment.
Impact:
Ø Created employment for the women
and they are earning incomes for their families, which has increased their
social value and ownership in the families.
Ø Created employment opportunities
for the poor women.
Disable
People Development:
Disability development is one of the most important and
on going program of ASIF and it has been continuing disability development
program successfully and effectively from 2001 with the technical support of
Centre for Disability Development (CDD). Already ASIF has developed 2 staffs
for this program i.e. 1 CHDRP, one Social and Communicator, who have been
trained by CDD. The main
activities are: survey and
disability identification, PRT, education, professional skill training,
micro-credits, curative medical services, treatment assistance, aid materials,
community awareness raising, observation of different national and
international important days, arrange workshop and seminars on disabled
people’s services and development etc. Already 75 handicapped/disable people
have been identified and they are as follows:
|
Sl. No
|
Types of Disables
|
Female
|
Male
|
Adolescent
|
Children
|
Total.
|
|
01.
|
Physically
disable.
|
15
|
10
|
08
|
05
|
38
|
|
02.
|
Dumb and Deaf.
|
08
|
06
|
04
|
02
|
20
|
|
03.
|
Mental disables.
|
01
|
02
|
02
|
02
|
07
|
|
04.
|
Blind.
|
02
|
03
|
01
|
05
|
08
|
|
|
Total:
|
26
|
21
|
15
|
11
|
75
|
ASIF has been providing the
above-mentioned services to the identified disable people through organising
them and their families, by which their families’ economic conditions can
improve and they can take proper care of their disable members. Actually the
disables need more interventions for their development and establishment but
due to financial limitation, it can not provide proper services to the disable
people. So we need all sorts of cooperation, materials and financial support
for working for the disable people of our working areas, because, government
and other services for the disable people are totally absent in the working
areas.
Impacts:
a) Identified disable people of
different categories of the working areas.
b) They are getting different
kinds of services for development.
b) Some disable people are
involved in economic activities.
c) Aware community people about
disable people.
d) Disable people are well
accepted by the community.
e) Community initiatives are
creating to rehabilitate the disable people.
HIV/AIDS/STD
Prevention Program:
ASIF has been working on HIV/AIDS/STD prevention through mass awareness raising in
the operational areas, because, these have become very burning issues whole
over the world. Still people are quite unaware about the dangerousness of those
diseases and sources. So, the organisation has been working on mainly awareness
raising and increasing community participation. ASIF has developed a goon
number of staffs on HIV/AIDS/STD
prevention, who has been educating and motivating the community people
continuously through group meetings, personnel contacts, house step visits,
arranging seminars, workshops, discussion meetings etc. They are also using
different charts, flip charts, posters, booklets etc. to educate and motivate
the people. The main beneficiaries are the sex workers, floating sex workers,
hijaras, youths, transport workers, floating women etc.
Impacts:
Ø) Aware
community people about HIV/AIDS/STD diseases, dangerousness and sources.
Ø) Initiating
preventive steps by themselves.
Ø) Initiating
to aware the common people.
Arsenic
Awareness Raising:
ASIF has been working on arsenic
awareness raising through different meetings, workshops, and seminars to create
mass awareness among the people of the operational areas, because, these have
become very burning issues in the whole country. Still people are quite unaware
about the dangerousness of arsenic and its affects and sources. So, the
organisation has been working on mainly awareness raising and increasing
community participation. ASIF has developed a goon number of staff on arsenic
awareness raising and mitigation, who has been educating and motivating the
community people continuously through group meetings, personnel contacts, house
step visits, arranging seminars, workshops, discussion meetings etc. They are
also using different charts, flip charts, posters, booklets etc. to educate and
motivate the people.
Impacts:
a) Aware community people about
arsenic, dangerousness and sources of diseases.
b) Initiating preventive steps
by themselves.
c) Initiating to aware the
common people.
Folk
Culture Program:
For creating mass awareness on different subjects like
human rights, women’s rights, child’s rights, voter education, disability
development, water and sanitation, national culture development etc. and to
provide practical and effective education to the mass people, ASIF has been
working on folk culture, because, people are very much interested for these
cultural functions in the rural and coastal areas. So, ASIF arranges folk song,
popular theatres, on the above mentioned subjects, where people get practical
education and adopt in their daily lives for their own development.
Impacts:
a) Aware community people on
different subjects and adopt in their daily lives.
b) Create mass movement among
the people.
Agriculture
Development Program:
To increase food security and food production, ASIF has been
implementing different kind of agricultural development activities in the
operational areas. Agriculture development program is one of them. ASIF has
been implementing homestead vegetable cultivation, kitchen gardening, seasonal
vegetable cultivation, rabi crop cultivation, banana cultivation, sugarcane
cultivation, medicinal trees cultivation etc. and providing technical and
credit supports for rice cultivation, jute cultivation, boro cultivation etc.
to the organised group members in the all project areas intensively and
extensively. The main components of this program are: a) Seed be development
for production of seedlings and supply, b) Homestead based vegetable
cultivation, c) Community based rice and jute cultivation and d) Kitchen
gardening. The staff of the organisation motivate and encourage the group
members and the community people to produce and plant agriculture crops and for
developing kitchen gardens, homestead gardens, fallow land gardens, rice
fields, jute fields, sugarcane field etc. ASIF has developed small
demonstrations for vegetables, rice, jute, sugarcane, etc. near the Office from
which the community people can learn and involved in the same activities. So
far ASIF has been providing seeds, seedlings, plants etc. to beneficiaries and
community people. A total of 111 families have developed kitchen gardens, 280
families have developed homestead gardens, 40 families have involved with rice
cultivation, 20 families have involved with jute cultivation and 15 families
have involved with sugarcane cultivation. The demand of agriculture activities
are increasing gradually day by day, which proves that the people are aware
about crop production.
Impacts:
a)
Aware community people on agricultural production and involved with
agriculture activities.
b)
Create mass movement among the people for increasing agricultural
production.
c)
Increased crop productions in different sectors.
d)
Created employment opportunities in agricultural sectors.
e)
Food stuffs have become available among the poor people.
f)
Fallow lands and homesteads are well utilized for production purposes.
Fisheries
Development Program:
To increase food security and fish production, ASIF has been
implementing different kind of fisheries development activities in the
operational areas. Fisheries development program is one of them. ASIF has been
implementing fisheries activities in the ponds, fallow water lands, ditches,
etc. for fish production, fry production etc. and providing technical and
credit supports for fisheries activities to the organised group members in the
all project areas intensively and extensively. The staffs of the organisation
motivate and encourage the group members and the community people to produce
and cultivate fishes. ASIF has developed small fisheries demonstrations near
the Office from which the community people can learn and involved in the same
activities. So far ASIF has been providing credit support to 55 families for
fisheries activities. The demand of fisheries activities are increasing
gradually day by day, which proves that the people are aware about fish production.
Impacts:
a) Aware community people on
fisheries production & involved with fisheries activities.
b) Create mass movement among the
people for increasing fishes cultivation and production.
c) Increased fishes productions in
different sectors.
d) Created employment opportunities
in fisheries sectors.
e) Fish food stuffs have become
available among the poor people.
f) Fallow water lands and ponds are
well utilized for fish production purposes.
Disaster
Preparedness and Management (Relief and Rehabilitation):
The organisation undertakes relief and rehabilitation programs to help
the poor affected people at the time of disasters. There are some trained
volunteers and staff for this purpose. Last year no remarkable disaster has hit
the area.
Staffing:
At present ASIF has the following categories personnel, who are
qualified, experienced, and skilled, trained and have 5 to 12 years practical
experiences in the field of rural and urban development:
Staff Position Statement
Sl. No. Nature
of Staff. Number of staff.
Total.
Male. Female.
1. Regular
Management. 03 04
07
2. Regular Field. 05 15 20
3. Volunteers. 10 15 25
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Total. 18 34 52
Financial Management:
All the funds of ASIF are deposited in its Bank Account, which is
operated with the joint signatory of the Executive Director, Secretary and the
Treasurer of the Executive Committee. In the quarterly Executive Committee
meeting all the plans, budgets, expenditures and progresses are reviewed and
approved and then the budgeted approved amount is transferred to the operation
account, which is operated by the Executive Director and the Accountant
jointly. The Accountant maintains all the accounts and documents according to
the accounting principle and audit standard. The Executive Director approves
the all expenditures and the Treasurer time to time checks the accounts.
Conclusion:
In spite of remaining lot of problems and limitations, ASIF has
conducted a good job regarding the implementation of the activities with the
sincere cooperation of the staff, volunteers, and Executive Committee members.
The present donors have played a very important role in the implementation of
the activities through providing moral and financial supports. We are grateful
and thankful to them and anticipate continuous cooperation for our effective
activities. We hope, if more donors support us, we could be able to cover more
targeted people and help in their socio-economic enhancement and empowerment.
We cordially anticipate all sorts of moral and financial supports from all concerns
for our development activities.
Md. Nijamul Huq
Executive Director
Associate
Social Improvement Foundation (ASIF)
Policeline
Road, Kumarkhali, Pirojpur
Mobile: 01770-494849
E-mail: ngoasif@gmail.com,
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