Preface

As a national development organization, UDDIPAN ( United Development Initiatives For Programmed Actions) came into  the development field in 1984 with the objective of establishment and promotion of fundamental rights of the disadvantaged, marginalized, and proverty hit masses including children, women, & men through proverty alleviation , empowerment and mainstreaming them in the development process of the country.

In course of working for more than 29 years, UDDIPAN is now a days a well known non-profit national development organization with its multiple programs tangible everywhere in its working areas spread over 163 upazilas of 36 districts. It focuses and emphasizes on participations and involment of children, youths, women, & men irrespective of class ,culture,colours, religion, creed in its develpoment ventures surrounding national priority sectors like micro credit, micro enterprize, women's empowerment, technical and vocational education, green energy, child development etc.

UDDIPAN as one of the top organizations have gained prominence inmulti-focused developmental activities, It is an active member of many important national regional and international networks and forums and is playing contributory roles for advocasy & lobbying to estabilish  & uphold Human rights & good governance at the national vis-a-vis international level in general. With the considerately long expericnces of working with & lerning from the people , the  organization has been capable of developing its approach & strategy in development that refletcs peoples perception, need, participation & leaderships for disired changes in livelihood, governance & potentials for growth & prosperty.

UDDIPAN has professional relationship withother such organizations working in Bangladesh and works collectively in the event of national crisis and need ( like natural calamities, and man-made disaters). It also offers and organizes training services on CRC, TVET, anti-trafficking, Business Development Services (BDS), micro-finance , Business Accounts , Micro-Enterprise, child development  etc having facilities and logistics at the national levels thereon .

GOAL

UDDIPAN set its goal to reduce the number of people below poverty line by fifty by fifty percent by the year 2015 in the targeted communities through implemention of community demand driven activities such as social mobilization, community institution building,human resource  development, micro-finace for sustainable  livelihoods, disastar management ,agriculture ,advocacy , legal  aid,etc and thus,contributing to the poverty reduction objective of the goverment as envisaged in the poverty Reduction Startegy paper (prsp).

Objectives

The specific objectives are as below 

a) to facilitate mobilizing and organizing women ,men and children of the excluded poor families at the grassroots,regional,and central levels to address development issues and plan ,implement ,manage community demand driven activities for social ,economic ,and cultural  improvements.

b) to augment family income of the poor ,underprivileged,and ethnic minorties through micro financing livelihood options ;

c) to facilitate the target people for mobilization of internal resources and gaining access to external resources;

d) to contribute to the improvement of the health  of the women ,men and children  of the poor families  through health   education ,access to available  health servies and providing related health  services;

e) to enhance the status of the women ,men and  children of the target families through promotion of their fundamental rigits ;

f) to incresingly build capacities of the members of the target population through implemention of education and skill development trainings directed at sustained improvements in thier lives;

g) to complement and supplement the devlopment efforts of the goverment.

UDDIPAN has the strategy is to empower the underprivileged people targeting women as the focal point for reaching every member of the family - children, women, and man.Approach is to raise critical awareness of the families of excluded poor, underprivillaged, and minorities to analyze their problems, prioritize them, and to creatively find solutions of their own and thereby progressively fulfill their full potentials & enrich their lives.

Ethical Principles & Core Values

# Good Governance practices such as participation of stakeholders in the decision making , accountability & transperency.

# Belief and confidence in the creative potentials of the people.

# Proactive and pro- people approch of development.

# Respect for all cultures and faiths.

# Commitment of vision, mission, goal, and objectives of the organizations.

# Sincerity, honesty and decipline in perception and work.

# Commitement practices in decicion making.

# Promotion of balanced men- women relationship based on mutual trust and respect.

# Team work founded on mutual trust and respect, openness, two way feed back and positive thinking.

# Accountability, both upward and downward.

# Maintaince of population free environment in the workplaces.

Code of Conduct

All staff members are to abide by the following

# They can claim to have those skills that they can demonstrate & perform.

# Staff members adhere strictly to discipline & decorum in the work place.

# Employees work towards eliminating diecrimination & harassment in the work place.

# Respect diversity & estabilish unity in diversity.

# They never use thier position to exert undesirable & inappropriate influence over other.

Limelight & Milestone of Accomplishment

# UDDIPAN now stands at the forefront as a prominent nationallevel NGO in course of its of long functioning through it multifaceted development initiatives.

# UDDIPAN received award from PKSF as which is considred as national level award for microfinace" long term sustainable best micro-credit organigation"in 2008 in      recognitions of its micro -credit service.

# Annual reports of UDDIPON 2007-2008,2008-2009,2010-2011  achieved awards from ICAB  in the catagory  of best published accounts & reports.significant thing is that in the last year UDDIPAN has been conferred the 1st prize for best published and reports among NGO inBangladesh.

# As apioneering venture ,UDDIPAN has officially taken over the MFPof  two NGOS "GOOD EARTH " in Comilla Micro finance part of TDH Netherlands in south based.

# The pursuit of UDDIPAN in providing remittance services for the families of expartriate  Bangladeshi Working abroad has been reconized &applauded by GOB and others.

# UDDIPAN programs for children has introduced avenues for rights protection and building a child right based movement for establishing Child Rights through mobilization, capacity building, advocacy a networking. As a part of promoting child capacity building child participation 88 of child clubs are at present being running in which 2782 children and youth are enrolling as regular members.

# UDDIPAN`s MIME Programmes and the Member Insurance Fund ( MIF) are being treated as a model in the field of Micro Insurance in Bangladesh.

# UDDIPAN`s ENRICH Program has created a remarkable interest among all with its integrated approach of socio economic and cultural development in place of just lending money to the poor.

# UDDIPAN `Shammo Project' is called participatory micro finance project which has been considered as one of the innovative projects.

# Introduction of Technical and Vocational Education and training (TVET) project will lead many a youths to get suitable jobs in line with their education.

# The relationship and networking of UDDIPAN with other national, regional and international developmental agencies, forums and networks are ample as well as remarkable. The agencies include EU, SCiB, Tdh-Netherlands, AMAN, ARF, UNICEF, IOM, USAID, BSAF, CRGA, ATSEC, INAFI, GOAL Ireland, & India, ICT for Child Rights, CDF, Micro Credit Summit, World Bank, DFID, NOVIB, OXFAM, Winrock, International, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of women and children Affairs, Ministry of Social Welfare, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Micro Credit Regulatory Authority etc.

Salient Features

# UDDIPAN as a right based & gender responsive national level organizations is man- euvering its activities towards upholding & promoting the rights of the children and the underprivillaged especially women for their empowerment.

# The palliative vis-a-vis development programs, UDDIPAN is capable to contribute to the country`s national development efforts with its holistic approach & mission.

# UDDIPAN considerds the target people as subject not object of development envisioning them as the decesion makers of their own needs & programs.

# Organizational & financial sustainability is continually pursued by the organization to make self reliant thereby transforming it into a perpetually strong- footed entity.

# Trained, motivated & buoyant staff force working as a team to implement its programs efficaciously.

Legal Status

UDDIPAN is registered with

# Department of Social Welfare.

# Bureau of NGO Affairs.

# Joint stock Company under the Socities Registration Act.

# Micro Credit Regulatory Authority.

Operational Areas & Beneficiaries Coverage

UDDIPAN has spread its activities to 36 districts viz Satkhira, Pirojpur, Bagerhat, Kushtia, Natore, Pabna, Sirajgonj, Comilla, Chandpur, Brahmanbaria, Chittagong, Cox`s Bazar, Bandarban, Barisal, Jessore, Chapai Nawabgonj, Jhalakhathi, Laxmipur, Rajshahi, Naogaon, Joypurhat, Narsingdhi, Dhaka, Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Rangpur, Bogra, Borguna, Noakhali, Feni, Sherpur, Mymensingh, Netrokona, and Kishorganj districts. UDDIPAN has professional cooperation, programmatic coordination, follow up, and communications with those organizations who worked earlier as partner of UDDIPAN in these districts. It covers 22,44,030 beneficiaries of the targeted families in 6,762 villages spread over 1,145 unions of 162 Upazilas. The organization has a team of 2,832 staff members of which 755 are female and 2,077 are male. They have been facilitating and servicing the families of target populace to plan and implement a varify of development progress.

UDDIPAN Programs

Target and Beneficary Groups

# Rural and Urban Poor (adults)

# Children and youths from Rural, semi - urban and Urban poor households.

# Differently able from poor households.

# Civil socity members including Religious Leaders.

Development partners of UDDIPAN

# Action Against Trafficking & Sexual Exploitation of Children ( ATSEC)

# Asian Muslim Actions Network ( AMAN )

# Anukul Foundation

# Asia Foundation

# Asian Resource Foundation ( ARF )

# Bangladesh Bank (BB )

# Bangladeh Disaster Preparedness Centre (BPDC)

# Bangladesh Rice Rescarh Institute (BRRI)

# Bangladesh Shishu Adikar Forum (BSAF)

# BMET

# CDMP

# Credit and Development Forum (CDF)

# Coastal Fisher Filok Community Network (COFCON)

# Child Rights Governance Assembly (CRGA)

# Directorate of Social Services

# DFID through PKSF

# Eastern Bank

# One Bank Ltd

# Dutch- Bangla Bank Ltd

# IFIC Bank Ltd

# Bank Asia Ltd

# End of Child Prostutions in Asia Tourism (ECPAT)

# European Union

# Express Money Service Ltd (UK)

# Goal Ireland through Goal India

# Infrastructural Development Company Limited (IDCOL)

# IFAD

# INAFI - Bangladesh

# Institute of Microfinance ( InM)

# International Labour Organizations (ILO) Bangladesh

# International Organization for Migration (IOM)

# Netz Bangladesh

# Micro Credit Summit

# Mix Market

# Multinet Trust Exchange LLC (UAE)

# National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)

# NGO Forum

# NOVIB

# Oman International Exchange LLC (Oman) One Bank

# Oxfam GB

# Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF)

# Rabobank Foundation

# Rahimafrooz Bangladesh Ltd

# Save the Children International in Bangladesh

# South Asia Partnership (SAP)-Bangladesh

# Technical Training Certre (TTC)

# Terre Des Homes-Netherlands

# Training and Technology Transfer (TTT)

# UNDP

# United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Bangladesh

# United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

# Village Education Resource Centre (VERC)

# Winrock International

# World Bank