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Preface

 

This is my pleasure to publish the Annual Report of VOSD for the year-2014. This Annual Report will reflect the progresses of different project activities, which have been conducted during the whole year. During the year, we had to face lot of limitations to cover the expanded programs or meeting up the local and people’s demand. However, we have overcome most of the limitations & problems with the sincere efforts of the dedicated staff members and the Executive Committee Members. The main events were the evaluations of the donors, which were successfully faced. The development march has been increasing gradually with the demand of the local people. Already it has extended it development initiatives in 137 Upazillas of 35 Districts covering more than 25000,000 population. Sincere co-operation and supports have been found from all concerns regarding the expanded programs.

 

VOSD pays its heartiest regards and gratefulness to all concerns for their benevolent supports morally and financially. The process of development is a length one. So, VOSD could not change the situations of the operational areas within short time. But it is our proud that VOSD has changed the attitudes of the people and created a mass awareness among the people of the peritoneal areas. People are now sufficiently encouraged and eager to participate in development activities, which was difficult at the beginning. VOSD started its journey in 1987 to work with the people, who are poor, neglected, deprived, under served, oppressed and who can not fulfill daily basic needs for their socio-economic upliftment. When VOSD started its activities, the staff, volunteers, and Executive Committee members were new in the development field and had less idea and experiences on development activities but they had string commitment, voluntary mentality and dedication, which gradually have been marched the organization VOSD to this position. Now most of the Executive Committee members, Staff members and Volunteers are well aware, skilled, and experienced on development when the development partners are also well aware, skilled and experienced on different development issues. VOSD is a National NGO and its coverage of the areas, population and program-dimensions has been increasing day by day. The achievements, in the field of rural development are reasonable and praise worthy at present. A good numbers of concerned development partners have been benefited/ benefiting out of the implementation of VOSD’s different interventions. Hope VOSD will keep up the present march and speed of the organization. All the credits go to the dedicated and committed staffs, volunteers, Executive Committee members and other local concerned departments. We are also highly grateful and thankful to the donors, who provided us financial supports to carry out our development programs for the poor and vulnerable people. We hope, if all sorts of co-operation and supports become available, VOSD could be able to reach its goal. 

Executive Director.

BACKGROUND OF THE ORGANIZATION

Voluntary Organization for Social Development (VOSD) is a National non-govt. non-profitable, non-religious and non-political voluntary development organization. VOSD is permitted to work all over Bangladesh. It was established in 1987 in Barisal, southern part of Bangladesh with an aim to promote the socio-economic, environmental and cultural status of the rural and urban poor and disadvantaged people, emphasizing the women, disables and children through concretization, capacity building, institution build, unity building and capital formation by imparting felt-need based problem solving programs by adopting modern, scientific and environment friendly techniques. It believes in non-directive, bottom up, integrated, sustainable and participatory development framework and acts as a catalyst with its targeted people.

So far, it has covered 8,682, villages of 1,074 Unions under 137 Upazilas of 35 Districts like Barisal, Jhalakathi, Patuakhali, Barguna, Pirojpur, Bhola, Faridpur, Gopalgonj, Sariotpur, Khulna, Gazipur, Madaripur, Chandpur, Mymensingh, Kishorgonj, Tangail, Jamalpur, Sherpur, Sirajgonj, Kustia, Jessore, Bagherhat, Laxmipur, Comilla, Netrokona, Noakhali, Chittagong, Bandarban, Rangpur, Pabna, Hobigonj, Lalmonirhat, Munshigonj, Dhaka and Moulvibazar Districts. VOSD’s strategies in accordance with the philosophy of alleviation of poverty, sustainability, capacity building and empowerment of the poor people. VOSD came into being through the grim struggle of a band of dedicated, landless leaders and number of energetic young social workers. VOSD had a very stormy journey since its inception unparalleled in the history of NGO movement of this country. The organization stood the best of time and is now gradually thriving. VOSD has by now earned the status of National NGO, well known at home and abroad. All these have been happening with the help of dedicated 10,469 staffs and volunteers to derive poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and improve environmental conditions. VOSD has been working for last 27 years in the field of education, child & adult education, capacity building, water & sanitation, arsenic mitigation, agriculture, fisheries, livestock, environment development programs, disables development, micro-credit, health, nutrition, human rights promotion, prevention of trafficking, legal and democracy education, HIV/AIDS prevention, socio-economic development, relief & rehabilitation & disaster preparedness and management, Local Government Strengthen Program, Emergency 2007 Cyclone Recovery and Restoration Project (ECRRP), Capacity Building under the south-Western Bangladesh Rural Development Project (SWBRDP) and ICS Installation Program of IDCOL. It considers sustainability for its all development concerns.

 

It aspires for a society free from exploitation, deprivation, and oppression, where every individual will be able to live in peace, harmony, and justice, where every individual will be able to fulfill basic needs, honored human rights, and legal rights, where every individual will not suffer from malnutrition, starvation, domination, violence etc. and where male and female equally participate in development activities, will not be dominated and neglected each other and build up friendly and peaceful atmosphere.  The main principle of VOSD is people oriented and development oriented development framework and ensures people’s participation in all levels like need assessment, designing, planning, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation etc. VOSD has got national awards for the contributions to Health, Nutrition, Education, Social Services, special contribution in Relief and Rehabilitation and Sanitation services, which are as follows:

 

  1. 1.                                          Jainul Abedin Gold Award-2005 for Health & Nutrition.
  2. 2.                                          Sadinata Sangsad Award-2006 for Education Services.
  3. 3.                                          Journalist Association Award-2006 for Socio-economic Development.
  4. 4.                                          National Youth Culture Organization Award-2007 for Health & Education.
  5. 5.                                          Index Kagoj-Kalam Business Award-2007 for Social Welfare.
  6. 6.      Sritir SIDR-2008 by Amtali Press Club for Special Contribution in Relief and Rehabilitation Programs.

 

CHAPTER-1: ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE

 

Legal Status:

 

VOSD is duly registering with the Bangladesh Government Departments for carrying out different development activities and receiving foreign donations legally. The names of the registered authorities and registration nos. are as follows:

 

SL No.

Name of the Registration Department

Registration No.

Date.

01.

Department of Social Services

DSS-Bari-253

30-06-1990

02.

NGO Affairs Bureau

FDO/R-627

01-06-1992

03.

Directorate of Family Planning 

FP-70

08-09-1995

04.

Youth Development Department

Youth-11

05-04-1995

05.

Society Act No. XXI 1860

S-4556

07-04-2005

06

Micro Credit Regulatory Authority

MRA No-237

14-05-2008

 

Membership:

 

VOSD has been working with the association and collaboration of different National and International NGOs, Forums, Coordinating NGOs and Networks. VOSD is the active member of the following Networks/Forums:

 

1)              Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB),

2)              Voluntary Health Service Society (VHSS),

3)              NGO Forum for DWSS,

4)              Gender Development Forum (GDF),

5)              International Center for Diarrhea Disease Research in Bangladesh (ICDDR-B)/GARNET,

6)              Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF),

7)              Khan Foundation,

8)              Credit and Development Forum (CDF),

9)              Bangladesh Fund Raising Group (BFRG),

10)          Forum for Regenerative Agriculture Movement (FORAM),

11)          COFCON/DFID,

12)          Bangladesh Fisheries Development Forum (BFDF),

13)          Coastal Resource Center (CRC),

14)          Coastal NGO Networks (CNN),

15)          Bangladesh AIDS Forum,

16)          Southern NGO Network (SNN),

17)          Coastal NGO Network (CNN),

18)          International Credit Summit (ICS)

19)          Asia Partnership for Human Development (APHD) Supported Women Development local and regional forms and

20)          Member in working Upazila, District & Division Committees.

 

Vision:

 

Established and empowered poor and vulnerable people, specially the women, distressed, disables, adolescents and children can live in a peaceful, judge full and harmonic society and integrated in the main stream of national development and poverty alleviation.

 

Mission:

 

To establish the poor and vulnerable people, especially the women, disables, adolescents and children in the society through building capacity, people’s institution, capital formation, utilization of local resources and imparting felt-need based problem solving programs that will make them capable, self-sufficient, self-governed, and self-initiators involving highly qualified, skilled and experienced personnel.

 

Goal:

 

Promoting the socio-economic, environmental and cultural status of the poor and underprivileged people, emphasizing the women, disables, adolescents and children and also empowerment through undertaking appropriate and sustainable programs.    

 

Objectives:

 

To achieve organization’s goal and vision, the following objectives have been set:

 

  1. To concretize and build capacity of the poor people,
    1. To provide educational facilities to the children, adolescents and illiterate adults for increasing literacy rate,
    2. To build self-capital and group fund/Capital,
    3. To create employment and income earning opportunities for the targeted poor people,
    4. To organize and form poor people’s institutions,
    5. To empower and establish the poor women in the society.
      1. To promote social justice, peace and harmony through establishing human rights, legal rights and fundamental rights among the mass people.
    6. To promote good governance in the society.
    7. To reduce gender discriminations in the community people,
      1. To concretize people on environment development and develop environmental condition of the operational areas,
    8. To develop future citizen of the country,
    9. To reduce drug addiction and anti-social activities,
    10. To prevent child and women trafficking, violence against women.
      1. To integration of the poor people in the main stream of national development activities,
    11. To involve women into economic and productive activities,
      1. To undertake intensive agriculture development activities and introduce modern techniques and HYV seeds and seedlings,
      2. To undertake intensive nursery development, social forestation, homestead gardening and environment development,
    12. To introduce nutrition gardening for nutritional status development,
    13. To conduct disaster preparedness and management activities etc.
    14. To alleviate poverty in the operational areas,
    15. To undertake income & employment generation activities for poor people,
    16. To introduce modern scientific technologies for different purposes,
    17. To improve fisheries resources in the operational areas,
    18. To ensure best utilization of local available resources,
    19. To ensure social justice and harmony in the society,
    20. To improve the rural health, water sanitation and environmental status,
    21. To prevent HIV/AIDS/STD.
      1. To set up the poor people in the main stream of policy formulation, decision makings, national development and social development.
    22. To set up the organized poor people in the power structure.
    23. To increase agricultural production,
    24. To increase livestock production.
    25. To increase fisheries production.
    26. To innovate new development technologies and transfer among the organized people.

 

Program Area Coverage:

 

VOSD started activities from one village of Sholak Union under Uzirpur Upazila of Barisal District. But gradually it has been expanded its development activities in different villages of different unions and each year it has been introduced and renovated the project areas considering the situations and needs and last year, it has introduced some areas and left some areas due to different causes and so far VOSD has been covered 8,642 villages of 1,074 Unions under 137 Upazilas of 35 Districts namely Barisal, Barguna, Bhola, Jhalakhati, Pirojpur, Patuakhali, Faridpur, Gopalgonj, Khulna, Gazipur, Chandpur, Comilla, Mymensingh, Kishoregonj, Jamalpur, Sherpur, Bagerhat, Tangil, Chittagong, Sunamgonj, Netrokona, Pabna, Sirajgonj, Shariatpur, Madaripur, Laxmipur, Noakhali, Moulvi Bazar, Dhaka, etc. and covering about 1,08,50,320 population. The coverage of beneficiaries are approximately 64,146 families directly i.e. 20,52,190 members, who are from the poverty stricken groups. But its community programs cover approximately 1,88,13,347 people.

 

Program Coverage of VOSD:

 

No.

Program Coverage

Total Nos.

1

District

35

2

Upazila

137

3

Union

1,074

4

Village

8,642

5

Urban slums

52

6

Population covered

1,08,50,320

7

Water body for fisheries

43,254 Acres

8

Land for agriculture

53,209 acres

9.

Training centre

137

10.

Microbus/Jeep/Car

16

11.

Total Staff/Teachers/Volunteers

10,469

Staffing:

At present VOSD have 10,469 staff members in different categories, who are qualified, experienced, skilled, trained and have 5-35 years practical experiences in the field of rural development. VOSD generally collects and develops local volunteers through providing practical training and practical field-based works and then include them as staffs according to their qualification, skill and experiences. It collects volunteers from the locality, who are educated, energetic, have patience, mentally to work for the poor and in the rural areas staying with the poor. So, all of VOSD have sufficient experiences and skill on rural and urban development activities and can be able to implement any sort of project at the field level.

Total staffs and volunteers of VOSD:

Staff

Volunteers/Teachers

Grand Total

Male

Female

Total

Male

Female

Total

797

1349

2146

1541

6782

8323

10,469

 

Total staff and volunteers of VOSD working in different categories:

Sl. No.

Category

Male

Female

Total

1.

Senior Level Management

55

27

82

2.

Management /Mid level

194

120

314

3.

Trainers

125

240

365

4.

Finance Officer/CA/Internal Auditors

125

22

147

5.

Consultant

07

5

12

6.

Agriculturist

6

02

8

7.

Fisheries Officer

38

12

50

8.

Engineer

7

0

7

9.

Nutritionist

9

5

14

10.

Doctor

7

3

10

11.

Paramedic/Nurse

14

21

35

12.

Veterinary Doctor and A.H.

12

5

17

13.

Supervisor

89

162

251

14.

Field Staffs

109

725

834

15.

Teachers/Volunteers

1541

6782

8323

 

Total

2338

8131

10469

 

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