Expression of Interest (EOI)

Expression of Interest (EOI)

Organizational Information

Name North Bengal Development and Research Centre ( NBDRC)

Contact Person Executive Director, NBDRC
Contact Address House No 128, Road No 4,
Habib Nagor, Bangkhan
Rangpur, Bangladesh – 5400
Phone : +880521 66212
Mobile : +8801712 441139
www.nbrdc.org, email: nbrdc@bttb.rangpur.net
Registration Department of Social Welfare- 1418 (2001);
NGO Affairs Bureau- 1428 (2003)
Established 2001

Vision
A confident, total responsive and equitable society for all

Strategic objectives

■ To strengthen the constituency of poor, disadvantaged, marginal and socially

excluded people for promoting their human rights along with gender equity and work
towards better governance with more accountable public institutions.
■ To promote children sensitivity in the family, society & institutions and to broaden
the access to basic and relevant quality education for children and adult illiterate.
■ To raise awareness for prevention of HIV/AIDS among the vulnerable people.
■ To reduce women and child trafficking & violence.
■ To mobilize local community and poor occupants for getting sufficient access and
control over natural resources to ensure food sovereignty and livelihood security
along with to conserve the environment from severe pollutions and external threats.
■ To strengthen community based disaster preparedness & response initiatives
especially in the case of climatic disaster and raise voice for environmental
governance against foreseen & unforeseen hazards.

Programme Participants
■ Poor men and women.
■ Poor and marginal occupational groups like marginal farmers, forest resource users
(Mawali, Bawali, fisherman etc).
■ Children at high-risk job and vulnerable situation.
■ Children getting no quality education.
■ Adolescent girls and young women at vulnerable situation in terms of trafficking and
violence.
■ Socially excluded people like sex workers.
■ Men at high risk in terms of getting affected and transmitted STD & HIV/ AIDS.
■ People with disability.

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Audience
■ Health, Education and Agriculture departments of GOB at Upazila and national level.
■ Upazila and District chief administrators.
■ Local elected bodies.
■ Member of Parliaments.
■ Ministers of respective ministries and departments.
■ Policy and law makers.
■ Teachers and studentds
■ Dada (lover of sex worker), Masi (land lady) of sex worker in brothels.
■ Law enforcement authority.

Mission

To mobilize people towards participatory environment, pro-poor and responsive governance,

environment friendly livelihood, gender and children sensitive society where people can get
access and control over resources, exercise basic human rights, reduce their marginality and
vulnerability, and raise voice against structural poverty and non-participatory development
initiatives.

Governance Structure of NBDRC

General Board of 31 members is the supreme body of the organization that elects members
for the Executive Committee. NBDRC is executed by an Executive Committee (EC) consists
of 7 members, which is elected in every two years interval. The EC approves annual plans
and budgets and monitor the activity progress and financial updates according to the Human
Resources and Financial Policy of NBDRC. Development programmes of the organisation
are supervised by a Core Management Team which is chaired by the Executive Director as
the Chief Executive of the organisation.

Program Management

NBDRC has a Core Management Team comprising the three senior coordinators headed by
the Executive Director, which is authorized by the EC to manage the whole organization.
Besides that a Management Team comprising all the program heads generally supervise the
regular activities. NBDRC manage all its activities according to the constitution, Human
Resource Policy, Financial Manual, Operational Policy, Gender Policy and other ad hoc
policies/ rules and regulations.

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Financial Management System

NBDRC maintains its accounts, bill, voucher, cash book, ledger according to the guideline of
its Financial Manual. Accounts of the organisation are maintained manually with computer
(Excel) generated report. The finance unit of NBDRC produces monthly financial report of
each project and the quarterly report is submitted to the Executive Committee and
Management Team of NBDRC and also to the respective donor of the projects. Coordinator-
Finance and Administration, who is an Chartered Accountant basically scrutinise these
financial reports and take necessary actions in case of any irregularity (if happens). Its
accounts are audited by external reputed Audit Firm. NBDRC also submit its annual
programmes, financial and audit reports to the NGO Bureau, respective donors and
government offices in due time.

Focus Population of NBDRC

■ Poor men and women.

■ Poor and marginal occupational groups like marginal farmers, day lobour, agri labour,
fisherman etc.
■ Social disadvanced women group (Widow, divorced, disable husband, masterless)
■ Children at high-risk job and vulnerable situation.
■ Children getting no quality education.
■ Adolescent girls and young women at vulnerable situation in terms of trafficking and
violence.
■ Socially excluded people like sex workers.
■ Men at high risk in terms of getting affected and transmitted STD & HIV/ AIDS.
■ Indigenous people like Munda.

Development Approach of NBDRC

As NBDRC visions for a confident, total responsive and equitable society; it sets its
development approach in rights mode. NBDRC expect such a poverty free environment,
where all the citizens of Bangladesh can exercise their essential human, social, economical,
political, civic and environmental rights to enjoy a dignified life. The Rights Base Approach
(RBA) builds on the development perception of NBDRC over a decade. NBDRC believes
that, rights are moral and legal entitlements. They are driven by our societal values, norms
and ethics and also guaranteed by the constitution- the supreme law of the country and other
associated policies, international conventions and accords. These are the entitlement of
people and bound upon state, different social institutions and international community.
NBDRC perceive poverty as a state, resulted from lack of people’s access to public resources,
services, institutions to which they are entitled and caused through systematic denial and
violation of rights by regional, national and international actors.

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NBDRC’s Position in Development Discourse

■ Taking stand for the poor and marginal people.

■ Resist discrimination against people’s right.
■ Pay special attention to marginal and socially excluded people.
■ Express solidarity to other movements and campaigns that address problems of
disadvantaged people.
■ Resist process and activities that ruin environment and bio-diversity.
■ Practice cost-effective development measures.
■ Promote environment friendly livelihood.
■ Avoid duplication or overlapping with other development agencies in terms of similar
services/activities.
■ Perceive development as political agenda, but practice no partisan politics. However it
strategically engages political institutions or parties, which take stands beside the poor
people.
■ Promote values and culture that respect the differences in the group of gender, caste,
religion and race.
■ Protest such technologies which threaten the dignity and individuality of a human
being or trapped him/ her as a subject of experiment.
■ Aims to learn from indigenous knowledge and technology.
■ Promote peoples participation to perceive the experience of community people.
■ Equity based development rather than growth oriented development.

Running Program/Project Location

Program/Project Geographical Location

District Upazilla No of Union
Capacity Building, Poverty Alleviation and Kurigram Phulbari 10
Sustainable Livelihood of the Socially Rangpur Gangachhara 7
Disadvantaged Woman in Rural Areas

Physical Facilities

Types Numbers
Head Office 1
Area Office 2
Unit Office 11
Training Centre 1
Club 12
Staff Strength 116 (Male: 62, Female: 54)

Training Activities
■ Non-formal education for SDW to involve SDWs in income generating activities
■ Vocational training to the SDW to acquire skills for sustainable livelihoods and
thereby to empower them.

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■ Provide legal aid and support to SDWs to increase their awareness about their rights
and get their rights

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Organgram of NBDRC

Executive Director

Program Coordinator Program Coordinator M&E Officer

Zone A Zone B FRDPO
ER / CO
Internal Auditor
Project Manager Project Manager Secretary
Legal Advisor
Accout Officer
Account Officer Account Officer

Office Staffs Office Staffs

M&E Officer = Monitoring & Evolution Officer

FRDPO = Fund Raising Documentation & Publication Officer
ER/CO = External Relations / Communication Officer

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