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Mobile: 01716-017918
E-mail: deshmap@gmail.com
Website: www.bdasks.org
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1. Name of the NGO: Akota Samaj Kallyan Sangstha (ASKS)
2. Mailing Address:
ASKS
Power House Road, Kewatkhali
Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
Mobile: 0088-01716 017918
E-mail: deshmap@.com
Website: www.bdasks.org
3. Address of Offices:
Head Office: Dhaka Office:
ASKS Plot-86, West Padardia
Power House Road, Kewatkhali Satarkul Road, Badda
Mymensingh Dhaka-1212.
Liaison Office:
ASKS
Nandanpur Hospital Road
Gopalpur, Tangail
Branch Offices:
ASKS ASKS
Ghatail Ishorgonj
Tangail Mymensingh
ASKS
Melandah
Jamalpur
8. Background of Establishment:
Akota Samaj Kallyan Sangstha (ASKS) is a non-government, non-profitable and non-political voluntary
social development organization. It was established in 1992 with the initiative of a group of educated social
activist with an aim to improve socio-economic status of the underprivileged peoples of the society. It is
founded on a set of believes concerning the basic problems of the rural people like-illiteracy, ill health,
unemployment, oppression/ civic inertia & environmental hazards. Peoples have their inherent power to
solve their own problems, but they lack opportunity, resources & civic rights. The development philosophy
of ASKS is essentially humanist, holistic and people-centered approach that aim to empowering people
through develop their potential inherent powers (intellectual, productive, physical & political/organizing) to
enable them to take responsibility of their self-reliance and sustainable development. ASKS believes on non-
directive, bottom up, integrated and participatory development frame work and acts as a catalyst with its
concerned people.
Mission:
Mission of ASKS is to ensure socio economic development by creating entitlement through skill
development, empowering by providing information & service support and safety net for the neglected.
Goal:
The goal of the organization is to reduce poverty and to promote sustainable development.
Objectives:
As per approved constitution, ASKS sated the following objectives to achieve the goal:
Creation of employment opportunities through skill development and credit support program for
income-generation.
Ensuring Literacy, Continuing Education (CE) for those, who did not have the opportunities to be
enrolled, drop outs and peoples with special needs.
Awareness building regarding legal aid, democracy, good governances, health care, sanitation, use
of safe water, gender issues, safe sex and HIV/AIDS.
Natural disaster management, food security, advocacy, research and technology improvement.
Strengthening local government, monitoring, evaluation, civil society initiatives, community based
organization.
Organize local initiatives for production of goods and services for income generation.
Organize cultural activities and sport events.
10. Working Approaches and Strategies:
Approaches
Strategies:
Organizational strategies vary from project to project. However, common strategies are:
♦ Assesses needs and identifies problems to design programs as per needs to solve the problems.
♦ Organize groups and motivate them to involve them in some non traditional activities.
♦ Provide literacy and post literacy to equip the members to orient with new better technology.
♦ Organize training programs for skill development, empowering and for creating entitlement.
♦ Providing support and creating environment for leadership development.
♦ Create fund from the members, receive donations, working in cooperation and collaboration
with the government departments, search project grants from national and international organizations
for the programs.
♦ Organize relief and rehabilitation programs as a part of safety net for the distressed in the
project area.
General Body:
General Body is the highest policy formulation body of ASKS and consists of all the general members
of the organization. The Body consists of 31 (thirty one) members. It meets once in a year to review and
approve plans, budgets, expenditures and progresses, and also formulate policy decisions and elects
Executive Committee for 2 years.
Advisory Body:
The Advisory Committee of ASKS consists of 3 members. The committee formed with intelligent,
social worker and honorable persons. The responsibility of the Advisory Committee is to advice and
provides proper guideline to General Committee and Executive Committee. The members of the
existing committee are:
1) Prof. Dr. M. A. Awal
2) Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam
3) Dr. Md. Tariqur Rabbani Bhuiyan
Executive Committee:
ASKS has its 11 (eleven) member Executive Committee (EC), elected for 2 years by the General Body.
The EC meets quarterly to approve and review the quarterly plans, budgets, expenditures and progresses
and makes policy decisions. The Executive Director materializes the decision through her staff and
volunteers. Composition of present executive committee is given below:
SL Education
Name & Designation Field of experience
No. Qualification
1. Dr.Md. Tariqur Rabbani P.hd *7 Years in Disability Development Programs
Chairman *4 Years in economic & Social Development
* 9Years in Finance and Administration
2. Rubaiya Khanam MA 4 Years in Finance Section and 3 Years Experience
Vice-Chairman in HIV/AIDS
3. Md. Maniruzzaman M.Sc * 3 Years in health & Management
Joarder * 1 Years in Micro Credit – BRAC
General Secretary * 6 years in NFE – DNFE
* 3 Years in Network Engineering
* 2 Years in Data Base Management System
4. Furkan Uddin Talukder H.S.C 5 Years in Social & Community Development of
Joint Secretary Tribal Community i.e. especially GARO
community.
5. Sayed Raja Khan B.Com 7 Years in Social Development
Treasurer
6. Ruhul Amin Siddique M.A ** 4 Years in economic & Social Development
Organizing Secretary ** 3 Years in HIV/AIDS
** 2 Years in Finance and Administration
7. Jesmin Siddika B.A 5 Years in Social Development
Social Welfare Secretary
8. Allal Uddin H.Sc 5 Years in Social Development and Agro Based
Public Relations Secretary project
9. Mizanur Rahaman BA 15 Years in Social Development
Executive Member
10 Satu Mia H.Sc 12 Years in Social Development
. Executive Member
11 Nure Alam H.Sc 10 Years in Social Development
. Executive Member
General Administration:
General Administration of ASKS is managed by the Executive Director and is accountable to the Executive
Committee. S/he is the chief executive of the organization and is responsible for overall administration of
the organization. S/he executes all decisions of EC and program activities through permanent and project
staff. ASKS has a good number of permanent staff, project staff and volunteers. All offices of ASKS are
directed by the Executive Director There are two types of staff such as head office staff and field level staff.
The field level staffs are accountable to ED through Chief of the Branch Office. The central office staff are
directly accountable to the Executive Director.
15. Staff Strength:
ASKS has a good number of staff (full time and part time) and volunteers. There are central office staff and
project staff. ASKS has qualified, experienced, and skilled, trained personnel who have long practical
experiences in the field of rural development and project management. It has a total of 71 different level
staff who are working in different areas of Bangladesh. The staff related information is given below:
Office Facilities:
ASKS is a local organization with sufficient office facilities in its working areas. The
organization has 11 well-organized offices in Mymensingh, Tangail, Jamalpur and Dhaka
districts. It is another important support for the organization that helps to implement the
project activities.
Equipments
SL No. Particular No.
1. Computer with all accessories 7
2. Printer 3
3. Laptop 1
4. Telephone 2
6. Still camera 3
Vehicle Facilities:
ASKS has enriched its transport facilities with necessary vehicle that has been using for
implementing and supervising the project activities. This resource will be helpful for
implementing the proposed project. The vehicle related information is given below:
Training Center-1
Sl # Name and Address of Training Year of Total Area Comments
Centers Establishment (Sq. ft.)
1. ASKS Training Centre Own & well
Nandanpur Hospital Road April, 1997 2100 organized
Gopalpur, Tangail.
Training Equipment
i.Chair Own 32
ii. Training Table Own 6
ii. Laptop Own 1
iv. TV Own 1
v. VCP Own 1
vi. OHP Own 1
vii. Flip Board Own 2
viii. White Board Own 1
ASKS has been implementing the developmental projects with the support of government and national
development agencies. The organization has also working experience with different government agencies
like Directorate of Health and Family Planning, DNFE, DoF, etc. It gives special attention to stakeholder
participation community empowerment and capacity building of target beneficiaries for improved
livelihoods. Its strengths include gender focus in development, environmental friendly approach and ensuring
sustainability of development initiatives. Its capacity, resources and vision allow it to serve the resource poor
communities in various rural activities that need them most. The general and overall projects implanted by
ASKS are presented in the following table:
16 RRC Pilling Project for Base line Survey at local enterprises Sadar Upzilla July 2009 to till Padakhep
. HIV/AIDS prevention Advocacy workshop with the factory Under October 2009 Consortium
among the workers of owners and their representatives Netrokona Funded by Save
local Enterprise Trainee selection district the Children,
from the workers of the local USA
Pilot Project of GFATM
entreprises
Conduction of Peer
education session
Materials
distributions
Group meeting
Reporting
19. National and International Memberships:
This is a continuous process of awarding membership to those who are nationally and internationally
involved in development activities. Up to date enormous membership were received of linkage of
membership stood the followings:
ASKS has been maintaining a standard accounts system in a transparent way. Accounts are audited in every
financial year (July – June) by the government approved chartered accounting firm. It follows the financial
manual for operating payment, bank accounts, etc. The mother Bank Account is operated by the joint
signatures of the Chairperson, Treasurer and General Secretary of the organization with the help of
approved EC meeting resolution and the approved money is transferred to the project accounts as per the
approved budget. Following are the Bank Account and its detailed information:
Decision Making:
According to constitution of ASKS, general members of the organization play vital role in any decision
making for the organization. Any decision adopted by majority member in the annual general meeting, the
Executive Committee is constitutionally bound to follow their decision and implement it. Executive
Committee interprets, implement, follow-up, evaluates the decisions of the General Committee and report
them back after their task is over. Executive Committee takes the decision and gives decision within the
guideline set by the General Committee. Director of the organization implements the decisions taken by the
Executive Committee and by other set rules and responsibility given upon him as per constitution. He is
accountable to the Executive Committee.
Transparency and Accountability:
The responsibility of all project staff is distributed according to implementation plan and need of the project
and their duties and responsibilities are prescribed in their job description. Executive Director is responsible
for appoint, termination, suspensions, promotion, demotion and increment of staff. All project staff are
reportable and accountable for their activities directly to the Coordinator. Branch Managers during their
monthly meeting provide their activity and financial reports, which is received and evaluated immediately.
New responsibility is again given upon him/her when planning for the next month. This is an on-going
process of responsibility and accountability for all organization staff.
Executive Director is accountable for his/her performance and progress to the Executive Committee. The
Committee gets overall report of the activities and finance of the project in their regular meeting, where the
Committee reviews and evaluates his/her past quarter activities and progress of the work assigned for the
period. The Executive Committee is accountable to the General Committee that meets annually to review
the progress of the projects and financial matters.
ASKS follows the participatory process in planning any project or program. The field level and mid level
staff plays a vital role in planning any program and project. The organization organize meeting with its field
level staff and managerial staff for sharing thinking and program design and collect their suggestions. Their
suggestions are considered importantly in the executive bodies meeting.
Monitoring:
In order to successful implementation of the project activities, the Coordinator in cooperation with Project
Officer will monitor the activities time to time. The Project Officer of ASKS will ensure time-to-time
monitoring of the activities for successful implementation of activities. The Branch Manager of the
respective upazila visits every field once in a month and prepares report on the findings of the visit and
submits it to the Coordinator. The Project Officer also make field visit in some pre selected areas and check
the Branch Manager’s activities. Then he prepares report on the visit and submits it to Coordinator. The
Coordinator visits to some selective project areas to overcome any adverse situation and provide necessary
suggestions. Then the Coordinator prepare a monthly monitoring report on the basis of the Branch
Manager’s and Program Officer’s reports and provide it to the Executive Director to take necessary action.
Evaluation:
Internal mid-term project review would be conducted with the project staff. The performance of the project
implementation would be evaluated after six month of project implementation. This is conducted for the
organization’s own purposes. ASKS would also conduct a participatory internal evaluation at the end of the
project period for its own purposes. The organization form evaluation committee for conducting the project/
programs evaluation. The donor at the end of the project can conduct an external evaluation. The report
would be prepared and deliver to donor.
Reporting:
ASKS prepares monthly activity report, quarterly progress report and half-yearly narrative report for
understanding the progress of the planned activities. The organization also prepares annual report
combining the activities of different programs. The Coordinator with the assistance of Accountant will
prepare financial report for expenses and projecting the funding needs for next six months and submit to the
Executive Director. The Coordinator would submit the progress and narrative activity report and financial
report to the Executive Director within 2nd week of the successive month.
23. Office Time:
Signature: ......................................
Md. Moniruzzaman Joarder
Executive Director
Akota Samaj Kallyan Sangstha (ASKS)