Organizational Policy

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Type of Organization:

Sejuti Health and Education Development Foundation (SHEDF) is one of the Non government organization in Bangladesh. It came into existence in the period of the devastating flood of 2007 as relief and welfare organization. Later on, it starts to work with the view of Rights Based Approach (RBA). Now SHEDF is a non-government development organization who dreams of a society where most of the people become an organized force and struggle for their rights and meaningful social change. SHEDF believes in working together in a spirit of mutual trust and equality for proper human development. The organization also believes on non-directive, bottom-up, target group oriented and participatory development approach and acts as a catalyst its concerned people.

Vision

To establish Justice Society through Sustainable Development process and enabling environment of claiming rights.

Mission

To work multi level stakeholders and engaged diverse people to establish justice and ensuring rights of poor, marginalized and excluded people in Bangladesh.

The objective of SHEDF:

1. To build institutional capacity at individual and organizational level lo ensure selfled, self reflective and self generated development benefits to provide to the poor.
2. To ensure safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation.
3. To organize and mobilize the local poor and distressed people into their own organization and build up a strong unity and solidarity among them.
4. To mainstream the socially excluded people like the disable and the minority.
5. To provide the targets with the technical know about more result oriented Sustainable initiatives in agriculture, fisheries, on farm and off farm entrepreneurship, health and sanitation, quality education etc. To secure people’s livelihood.
6. To ensure civil society and peoples participation in development process.
7. To strengthen and mobilize community based organization, disable and aged male female for rights establishment.
8. To establish ownership and rights over resources.
9. To develop gender relations and development.
10. To participate and empower of the poor people in local power structure.
11. To assists disaster affected people through relief and rehabilitation.
12. To create an enabling environment for the people where they have access to all sorts of information leading to their enhanced gathering capacity to buy-in –their rights that they are entitled to get.

Development Approach:

As SHEDF visions for a confident total responsive and equitable society it sets its development approach in rights mode. SHEDF expect such a pretty free environment, where all the citizens of Bangladesh can exercise their essential human, social economical, Civic and environmental rights to enjoy a dignified life. The rights based approach (RBA) builds on the development perception of SHEDF over adduced. SHEDF believes that, rights are mortal and legal entitlements. They are driven by our social values, norms and ethics and also guaranteed by the constitution the supreme law of the country and other associated policies, national conventions and accords. SHEDF perceive poverty as a state resulted from lack of people’s access to public resource, services, institution to which they are entitled and caused through systematic denial and violation of rights by regional, national and international actors.

SHEDF working in the Five Themes:

1. Community Mobilization, Capacity Building and Leadership Development.
2. Good Governance
3. Livelihood Strengthening and Sustainable Development
4. Information Rights
5. Partnership, Networking and Alliance Building

VALUES:

1. Gender equality
2. Attitude to learn
3. like-minded
4. Participatory decision-making
5. Sympathy to people
6. Committed to work
7. Secular
8. Competition and co-operation
9. Humanity is the priority
10. Group effort-not individual

Target Beneficiaries:

Poor, hardcore poor specially women, adolescent, children, disabled persons who live below the poverty line, victim of river erosion, land less, marginal farmer, widows, fisherman, day labor, orphans, distressed women, gipsy community, transgender and less opportunist people has been leaving at all level in the society.

Program and activities:

Institution Building

1. Group formation
2. Savings Collection
3. Loan Disbursement & Recovery
4. Skill Development
5. Awareness Building
6. IGA
7. Advocacy / Training

Education

1. Skill & Capacity Development
2. Child Education
3. Early Child Care and Development
4. Adolescent & Adult Literacy
5. Reproductive Health Education
6. Education
7. School Program

Poverty Eradication

1. IGA
2. Skill Development
3. Livelihood Support Program

Water Supply & Sanitation

1. Training
2. Advocacy
3. DHTW Installation
4. Hygiene Promotion
5. Sanitary Latrine Installation
6. Arsenic Mitigation
7. Court Yard Meeting
8. Community Meeting
9. Religious Meeting
10. Imam Orientation
11. Teacher Orientation

Women & Child Rights

1. Skill & Capacity Development
2. Right Violation Monitoring
3. Legal Aid Support

Environment

1. Sapling
2. Advocacy
3. Storage & distribution of seeds
4. Natural Fertilizer Promotion
5. Nursery rising and social forestry

Women Empowerment

1. Income Generation
2. Skill Development
3. Creating Leadership
4. Preserving Women rights

Disaster Management

1. Relief Distribution
2. Training on Disaster Management
3. Creating Emergency Fund

Good Governance

1. Capacity building of local Government
2. Formation Union, Upazilla Level Support
3. Advocacy & Monitoring

Primary Health Care & Nutrition

1. Regular Health Check-up by TAB & FWV Home
2. Homestead Gardening

Service Delivery

SHEDF service delivery takes place at two levels:

1. The outreach sites
2. The households community

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