Alliance For Cooperation and Legal Aid Bangladesh (ACLAB) & CR NAF 99.2 FM

1. Alliance For Cooperation and Legal Aid Bangladesh (ACLAB) & CR NAF 99.2 FM Presenting by: Reza Habib, MPD, NRU-HSE

Alliance For Cooperation and Legal Aid Bangladesh (ACLAB)
& CR NAF 99.2 FM
Presenting by: Reza Habib, MPD, NRU-HSE

2. Outline

Background, Vision & Mission
Organizational Structure and
Manpower
Partnership and Networking
Outline
Working Area & Target
Beneficiaries
Implementation strategies
Focusing Areas and On-going
Projects
Documentary Show

3. Background

Our Journey Started in : 1987
Initial Intervention:
Relief operation for the flood
victims; HIV/AIDS Prevention for
sex workers funded by NORAD
and CIDA;
Legal Status:
Department of Social Services;
NGO Affairs Bureau; Directorate of
Family Planning; Directorate of
Youth Development
E.U. Department of International
Cooperation and Development
under European Commission ;
U.S. Federal Government
Contractors and Grantees and
Small Business Administration.
A world free from
deprivation,
exploitation,
poverty and hunger.
Work for the
disadvantaged and
vulnerable people
to bring positive
changes and
improvement in
their livelihood.
Equal Participation;
Right to
Information;
Capacity
development;
Equal access to
services;
Accountability and
transparency.

4. Organizational Structure & HR

Organizational
Structure & HR
Total Employees: 190
Male: 43
Female: 147
Volunteers: 137
Part- time: 7

5. Partnership & Membership

Partnership &
Membership
Current Partnership:
13 National and International
Organizations
BRAC, Directory of Women
Affairs, BNNRC, Free
Unlimited, FK Norway, JICA
and GOB through OSJI Joint
Venture, UNICEF, IOM, Red
Crescent, Christian Aid, WFP,
USAID, UNDP
Networking & Membership:
World CIVICUS International
Civil Society Alliance for Scaling Up Nutrition,
Bangladesh (CSA for SUN, BD)
World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)
Bangladesh Urban Forum
21 National and International
Networks & Associations
Girls Not Brides

6.

Working Area & Target Beneficiaries
Geographic Area:
17 districts under 4 divisions
20 project offices
Coverage Population:
1.5 Million
Target Beneficiaries:
Hard Core Poor People; Vulnerable
Women, Children; Commercial Sex
Workers; Transport, Factory & Migrant
Workers and Laborers; Migrant People;
MSM, Hijra and IDUs, Sexual and
Ethnic/ Indigenous Community; Youth
and Adolescent; Person with Disability;
Dalit Community, Rohingya Rafugees.

7. Implementation Strategies

Participatory
Approach
Monitoring &
Evaluation
Implementation
Strategies
Promotion of
Advocacy
Linkage and
Networking
Training &
Services
Mobilization
of Local
Resource
Mass
Awareness
Community
Approach

8. Focusing Area & Current Project

Focusing Area &
Current Project
Health and nutrition,
Poverty alleviation,
Health
• Malaria Control Program funded by GFATM & BRAC
• HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Under Construction of Kanchpur, Meghna,
Gumti 2nd Bridges funded by JICA &Govt.
• Awareness campaign on health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, sanitation, security,
education, counselling among Rohingyas and host communities funded
UNICEF, IOM, Red Crescent, Christian Aid, WFP.
Education,
Disaster preparedness,
Life skills development,
Access to Information
and Technology
Human rights,
Legal aid.
Education
• Non- Formal Education funded by BRAC
• International Professional Exchange Program funded by FK Norway.
Poverty Alleviation
• Vulnerable Group Development-VGD funded by Directorate of Women
Affairs
• Income Generating Activities through Microcredit funded by ACLAB

9.

HIV Prevention
Net Distribution
Safe Migration
Non-formal Education
Discussion meeting with
Rohingya Youth

10. Focusing Area & Current Project

Safe Migration
• Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers Project funded by JSDF,
World Bank & BRAC
Focusing Area &
Current Project
Access to ICT
• Community Radio Program funded by A2I- Prime Minister Officer &
BNNRC, Free Unlimited ACLAB
Human Right
• Enhancing Capacity and Involvement of CSOs and CBOs in
Ethnic Minority’s Human Rights through Community Radio in
Teknaf, Cox’s bazar funded by UNDP

11. Community Radio NAF 99.2 fm

Background: 2012
Objective: Empowering the
marginalized people and to
ensure
their
right
to
information, social justice and
democracy.
Youth
Broadcasting
Rohingya
Listening to
Radio
Program
Employees: Community
Youth
Focusing Listeners:
Marginalized poor people;
Women, children, youth, aged
and person with disability
Farmers, fishermen,
Ethnic communities.
CR Naf
Information
centre for
Rohingya

12. Community Radio NAF 99.2 fm

On-Air Activities:
Magazine, Drama, PSA,
Community News,
Discussion, Reporting,
Live Talk on radio
Planning for
developing
Radio
Program
Broadcasting
Radio by
youth
Off-Air Activities:
Forming Listener Groups;
Advocacy, Workshop,
Capacity Building
Training, Networking,
Mass Campaigning and
so on.
Court Yard
Meeting
with
listeners