Organizers of the Convention
CWC is convened by AOSED in collaboration with a diverse group of national and international organizers, networks, and sponsors who share a commitment to water justice and coastal resilience.
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Knowledge and research partnerships
ActionAid Bangladesh is the Bangladesh country programme of ActionAid, a global federation working to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. It has been active in Bangladesh since 1983, supporting people living in poverty and exclusion—especially women, young people, and children—to claim their rights and challenge the structures that keep them vulnerable.
An Organization for Socio-Economic Development (AOSED) is a non-government, non-profit development organization founded in 1999 and based in Khulna, Bangladesh. It is committed to conserving the environment, ecology, and biodiversity while improving the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable coastal communities, particularly in the southwest coastal region. AOSED works on climate change adaptation, water and environmental justice, sustainable livelihoods, and the rights of marginalized groups by combining community mobilization, advocacy, and evidence-based policy engagement at local, national, and international levels.
Ashroy Foundation is a women-led, voluntary development organization established in 1995 in Khulna, in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh. It was founded by a group of committed women and social workers to address the oppression, inequality, and livelihood insecurity faced by poor and distressed women, children, and other marginalized groups. As a non-government, non-profit organization, Ashroy Foundation works on women’s rights, quality education, agriculture and food security, health, human rights, good governance, poverty alleviation and climate change adaptation, mainly across Khulna, Satkhira, Bagerhat and other coastal districts.
Association for Society’s Helpless (ASH Bangladesh) is a local non-governmental development organization working primarily swith disadvantaged rural and peri-urban communities. It has been involved in promoting quality education—especially science education in economically and geographically disadvantaged secondary schools—through student science clubs, leadership development, and advocacy with teachers and parents. ASH Bangladesh has also partnered with agricultural research institutions such as IRRI on projects for sustainable rice seed production and delivery systems in southern Bangladesh, contributing to improved rural livelihoods and food security.
Association of Voluntary Actions for Society (AVAS) is a non-government, non-profit, rights-based voluntary organization established in 1998 in Barisal, in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh. It works with marginalized, poor, socially excluded and disadvantaged communities—especially women—to promote livelihood rights, gender equality, and social justice. AVAS implements a range of humanitarian, development and rights programmes, including legal aid, advocacy, and community empowerment initiatives across Barisal and other coastal areas.
Badabon Sangho is a women’s rights and women-led organization working mainly in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh, particularly around Rampal, Mongla and the Sundarbans. It brings together lower-caste, Dalit, single mothers, widows, divorcees, religious minorities and other marginalized women to build their leadership and collective power. The organization focuses on women’s rights to land, water-bodies and natural resources, women migrant workers’ rights, feminist climate and environmental justice, and combating violence against women and girls through village-based women’s groups, federations, and advocacy networks.
BEDS is a community-based, non-profit, non-government organization committed to conserving ecological balance and creating harmony between humans and nature. Founded around 2010 and based in Khulna, it works mainly in environmentally fragile coastal and Sundarbans-adjacent areas on environment and ecosystems, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, clean/solar energy, sustainable livelihoods, gender, health, sanitation, and child and women’s rights. BEDS has implemented projects with local and international partners and has received several national and international awards, including the Energy Globe National Award and multiple Government Divisional Environmental Awards, in recognition of its innovative community-based environmental solutions.
The Bangladesh Oceanographic Research Institute (BORI) is a statutory organization under the Ministry of Science and Technology, located in Cox’s Bazar. As the country’s first and only national marine science research institute, BORI conducts multidisciplinary research in physical, geological, chemical, biological, and environmental oceanography, including climate change. It supports sustainable Blue Economy development through ocean research, environmental impact assessment, data management, policy support, capacity building, including national and international collaboration. BORI's work facilitates the responsible use and conservation of marine resources and contributes to national economic growth.
BARCIK is a non-governmental, non-profit development organization established in 1997 by a group of development practitioners, researchers, and social workers. It works in the fields of environment, biodiversity conservation, and development, with a strong focus on recognizing and promoting indigenous and local knowledge. BARCIK partners with grassroots communities, especially farmers and indigenous peoples, to integrate their traditional practices into contemporary development initiatives and to empower them to defend their rights and ecosystems.
Bangladesh Water Partnership (BWP) is the Bangladesh country chapter of the Global Water Partnership. It brings together government, semi-government, and non-government organizations to promote Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and support coordinated development and management of the country’s water resources. BWP works as a multi-stakeholder platform for dialogue, knowledge sharing, and advocacy toward a water-secure Bangladesh, aligning national efforts with regional and global water agendas.
Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World) is a German-based international development organization that works to end hunger, poverty and injustice worldwide. It supports projects in over 90 countries, including Bangladesh, focusing on issues such as food security, climate justice, human rights, and sustainable livelihoods. Brot für die Welt partners with local organizations to implement community-led initiatives that empower marginalized people, promote social justice, and build resilience to climate change and economic shocks.
CARE is a leading international humanitarian organization fighting global poverty and injustice, with a special focus on working with women and girls. Founded in 1949, CARE Bangladesh is one of CARE’s oldest and largest country offices. Initially focusing on providing emergency disaster relief and nutrition, over the years the organization’s approach has moved towards a more complex and forward-thinking program of development and resilience.
Caritas Bangladesh is a national Catholic charitable organization established in 1967 (as Caritas East Pakistan) and reorganized after independence as a leading humanitarian and development NGO in the country. It is a member of Caritas Internationalis and works in partnership with the poorest and most marginalized communities to promote dignity, social justice, and integral human development. Caritas Bangladesh implements extensive programmes in integrated development, disaster management, sustainable livelihoods, and human resource development across all regions of Bangladesh, with its central office in Dhaka and eight diocesan offices nationwide.
CNRS is a non-government, non-political development and research organization in Bangladesh, established in the early 1990s from the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan (FAP-16) environmental study and formally launched in 1994. It is one of the country’s leading pro-environment NGOs, focusing on ecological management of floodplain and wetland ecosystems through community-based, participatory approaches. CNRS works across Bangladesh on biodiversity and wetland conservation, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable livelihoods, aiming to restore, conserve, and ensure the wise use of natural resources while influencing national development strategies towards environmental sustainability.
C3ER is a specialized research centre of BRAC University, established in 2011 to advance climate and environmental research in Bangladesh. It focuses on climate change adaptation and mitigation, loss and damage, natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and climate-resilient development, often using tools such as Remote Sensing and GIS. C3ER works as a knowledge and policy hub—generating evidence, supporting national policy processes like NAP and NDCs, and building capacity of government officials, NGOs, youth, and researchers to craft sustainable and inclusive solutions.
CCSE at Jagannath University is a multidisciplinary research and resource centre dedicated to understanding and addressing the interactions between climate change, society, and the environment. Hosted by Jagannath University in Dhaka, it brings together researchers, students, and partners to work on climate resilience, environmental sustainability, and just transitions, often using tools like GIS, Earth observation, and GeoAI. CCSE conducts research projects, capacity-building activities, and public events to generate evidence for policy, support vulnerable communities, and strengthen Bangladesh’s response to the climate crisis.
Christian Service Society (CSS) is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged communities across Bangladesh. For the past 54 years, CSS has worked with commitment and integrity to serve people in need. Guided by compassion and accountability, CSS promotes human dignity through programs in health and hospital services, education and skills training, microfinance and livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, social welfare, and community development. Its microfinance and enterprise initiatives help low-income households build assets, stabilize income, and reduce vulnerability. Working closely with government, donors, and civil society, CSS delivers practical, people-centred solutions that strengthen resilience and expand opportunities for women, children, and marginalized communities.
Climate Justice Forum – Bangladesh (CJF-Bangladesh) is a national civil-society platform that brings together NGOs, academics, journalists, social movements and grassroots leaders to advance climate justice for vulnerable and climate-affected communities. The forum coordinates advocacy, research and campaigns on issues such as loss and damage finance, climate-induced displacement, and equitable access to climate funds. It organizes national consultations, public mobilizations in coastal and urban centres, and high-level engagements around UNFCCC COPs to push for compensation-based climate finance and to ensure that frontline community voices shape national and global climate negotiations.
Coastal Association for Social Transformation (COAST) Foundation is an independent, non-profit coastal NGO in Bangladesh that emerged in 1998 from a ten-year project on Bhola Island, one of the country’s most cyclone-prone areas. It works primarily with underprivileged coastal communities to promote sustainable livelihoods, social justice, and disaster-resilient development through microfinance, education, and community organization. COAST also engages in climate justice, advocacy, and humanitarian response—particularly in coastal and island districts and in Cox’s Bazar through networks such as the Cox’s Bazar CSO-NGO Forum (CCNF) and its advocacy wing EquityBD.
CDP is a national non-governmental, non-profit, public-interest and environmental activist organization working primarily in the coastal regions of Bangladesh. Established in 1997 out of grassroots efforts to address waterlogging and environmental injustice in the southwest coastal belt, it now supports people-led initiatives for peace, human security, climate resilience, and development justice. CDP combines advocacy, research, and community-based programmes on climate change, environmental justice, food sovereignty, sustainable agriculture, responsible aquaculture, and pro-poor environmental governance, working closely with marginalized coastal and indigenous communities as well as civil society networks.
CLEAN is a non-partisan, rights-based organization working primarily in the coastal zone of Bangladesh to advance climate justice, just energy transition, and environmental accountability. Established in 2010, it operates as a regional network-based platform, connecting grassroots communities, civil society, and advocacy networks at national and South Asian levels. CLEAN works with farmers, women producers, fishers, forest peoples, and indigenous communities to secure their rights over nature and natural resources, promote fossil-free and renewable energy pathways, and protect common ecosystems through campaigns, research, and policy engagement.
Coastal Voice of Bangladesh is a network/platform of journalists dedicated to reporting on climate change and coastal issues in Bangladesh. It focuses on knowledge sharing and public-interest journalism on topics such as agriculture, food security, health, climate action, disaster risk reduction, environment, pollution, biodiversity conservation, and the SDGs. By strengthening the skills and collaboration of coastal reporters, Coastal Voice of Bangladesh aims to bring frontline community experiences into national and global climate debates and to support evidence-based advocacy for climate justice.
CODEC is a national NGO based in Chattogram that has been working since 1985 to improve the lives of coastal and riverine communities in Bangladesh. Originating from DANIDA-supported initiatives, it now operates across multiple coastal districts with programmes in microfinance, education, health, environment, and disaster resilience for landless and disadvantaged groups. CODEC’s vision is a prosperous, empowered and healthy coastal community with equal rights and social justice, pursued through community institution building, leadership development, and livelihood support.
Dalit is a non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organization established in 1998 by a group of young Dalit community members in southwest Bangladesh. It works for the socio-economic development, empowerment, and rights of Dalit and other socially excluded groups so they can meet their basic needs and live with dignity. Dalit focuses on reducing caste- and gender-based discrimination through education support, human rights advocacy, livelihood and health programmes, and by strengthening access to government services for marginalized communities in the Khulna region and beyond.
DORP is a national non-government organization established in 1987, working across different parts of Bangladesh to improve the lives of disadvantaged rural communities, particularly women and the poor. Born out of post-cyclone humanitarian efforts in coastal areas, DORP now implements a wide range of development programmes, with strong focus on health, Water–Sanitation–Hygiene (WASH), social protection, and poverty alleviation. It is widely known as the pioneer of the Maternity Allowance for Poor Mothers and the SAPNA Package (five basic rights) as an integrated model for reducing poverty and enhancing dignity.
DHRUBA is a local, women-led human development organization working with Dalit and other socially excluded communities in the southwest of Bangladesh, particularly in Khulna. Formally recognized in 2004, it focuses on reducing poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, and human rights violations among asset-less and marginalized families, with special emphasis on women and children. Through awareness building, human rights advocacy, girls’ education, health and hygiene promotion, and livelihood support, DHRUBA strives to build a just society where Dalit and disadvantaged people can live in dignity, peace, and harmony.
GUK is a national, community-led NGO established in 1985 and headquartered in Gaibandha, one of the poorest and most disaster-prone districts in northern Bangladesh. It works with poor, extreme-poor, vulnerable and excluded groups—especially women, children, ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities—to bring about sustainable, positive changes in their lives through rights-based development. GUK now operates across multiple districts, including Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, implementing programmes on livelihoods, microfinance, climate resilience, disaster response, education, and local governance, guided by a transparent and accountable governance system.
Helvetas Bangladesh is the country programme of Helvetas, an independent Swiss development organization working in 29 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In Bangladesh, it has been active since 2000, supporting disadvantaged rural and urban communities to improve their livelihoods, strengthen climate and disaster resilience, and participate more actively in local governance. Helvetas Bangladesh implements projects in areas such as WASH and water governance, agriculture and nutrition, migration, urban nutrition, women’s political participation, and climate justice, with a strong focus on the climate-vulnerable coastal and northern regions and on refugee-hosting areas like Cox’s Bazar.
Founded in 1998 and registered in 2005 (Reg: 119/2005), Humanitywatch is a Bangladeshi non-profit dedicated to the common good. Driven by volunteers, it empowers marginalized groups, including forest dwellers, indigenous communities, and climate migrants. The organization has donated over 10,000 bags of blood and provides critical disaster relief. Beyond immediate aid, it addresses systemic issues like waterlogging and unplanned development in the southwest coastal region. Its core work focuses on sustainable agriculture, human rights research, and economic justice for ensuring a voice for the subaltern and the environment
IRV is a rights-based development and research organization working mainly in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh since 2008. It focuses on the social, economic, and democratic empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalized communities—particularly Indigenous and Dalit women, youth, and children—so they can claim their rights and improve their livelihoods. IRV works on environmental and climate justice, livelihood and agro-entrepreneurship, education, gender justice, governance, and humanitarian assistance, often using participatory action research and community organizing to strengthen local voices in policy and advocacy spaces.
ISDE Bangladesh is a non-governmental, voluntary, non-profit and non-religious social development organization working mainly in the south-eastern region of Bangladesh. Founded in 1992, it is devoted to reducing poverty, hunger and the effects of natural and human-made disasters among disadvantaged communities, especially women and children. ISDE promotes positive socio-economic change through programmes on income and employment generation, health services, education, peacebuilding, climate change and disaster risk reduction, and awareness raising at community level.
International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) is a leading research and capacity-building institution on climate change and development in Bangladesh. It generates and shares grounded knowledge on climate adaptation, with a strong focus on the Global South. Rooted in local experience, ICCCAD conducts cutting-edge research, trains current and future leaders, builds capacity in LDCs, and leads a network of Southern partners—connecting real-world insights from Bangladesh to global policy, practice, and learning.
Islamic Relief Bangladesh is the Bangladesh country office of Islamic Relief Worldwide, a global faith-inspired humanitarian and development organization founded in 1984 and headquartered in the UK. It has been working in Bangladesh since 1991, initially responding to a devastating cyclone and later expanding into long-term development and resilience-building programmes. Today, Islamic Relief Bangladesh works with vulnerable communities across multiple regions to reduce poverty and suffering through humanitarian response, climate and disaster resilience, sustainable livelihoods, WASH, child welfare, and social justice initiatives, guided by Islamic values of compassion and social responsibility.
JJS is a non-government, not-for-profit social and environmental development organization working since 1985, with a primary focus on the south-west coastal region of Bangladesh. Starting as a small volunteer youth initiative in Khulna, it has grown into a leading regional NGO addressing poverty, social exclusion, and climate vulnerability among coastal communities. JJS works on governance and human rights, environment and food sovereignty, child protection, disability inclusion, and climate change and disaster management, reaching poor and marginalized groups such as women, children, and disaster-affected families.
LEDARS is a non-profit, non-political NGO working mainly in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh, one of the areas most affected by salinity, cyclones, and climate change. It focuses on climate change adaptation and mitigation, WASH, resilient agriculture, and livelihood security for poor and marginalized communities. LEDARS is widely recognized for its innovative community-based water solutions and climate-resilient technologies and has received several international awards, including the World Water Showcase Award (2015) and the Zayed Sustainability Prize in the Water category (2023).
LoCOS is a local development organization based in Batiaghata, Khulna, founded in 1998 by a group of committed social workers and development practitioners. It works mainly in Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira with poor and marginalized communities to improve livelihoods, food security, health, education and women’s empowerment through participatory, rights-based approaches. LoCOS is also active on climate and water justice issues in the southwest coastal belt, promoting sustainable resource management and supporting community initiatives such as canal re-excavation and managed aquifer recharge for safe drinking water in saline-prone areas.
Manob Sheba O Samajik Unnayan Shangstha (MSSUS) is a non-government, non-profit development organization based in Khulna, Bangladesh, working with disadvantaged and marginalized communities since 1998. It focuses on the rights and protection of women, children, youth, and other excluded groups through initiatives on human rights, gender justice, economic empowerment, free legal aid, awareness-raising, and good governance. MSSUS implements projects such as “Parayon” on the rights of women, children and lagging groups, and works as a partner of Manusher Jonno Foundation under the “Safe Home (COPE)” theme in Khulna to combat violence against women and children and strengthen protection mechanisms.
MJF is a national, non-government and non-profit organization established in 2002 to promote human rights and good governance in Bangladesh. It works with local partner organizations in 50+ districts to improve the well-being of poor and marginalized communities by amplifying their voices, strengthening their capacities, and making institutions more responsive. As one of the country’s largest grant-making foundations for rights and governance, MJF provides funds and capacity-building support while leading evidence-based advocacy on issues such as women’s empowerment, child rights, disability inclusion, Dalit rights, and climate-induced vulnerabilities.
NABOLOK is a Bengali term meaning “An Assembly for a New World.” NABOLOK is a voluntary non-government organization of Bangladesh. In the year of 1986 a group of dedicated citizens living in Khulna established NABOLOK to uphold the philosophy of ensuring people’s rights. After obtaining registration in 1990, NABOLOK commenced development activities in earnest, with the assistance of national and international donors.
“Nari Kantho Social Welfare Organization” is a women-led, community-based non-governmental organization working in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh. Situated in Tayef Monjil, East Dasani, 1 no Cross Road, Bagerhat Sadar-9300, Bagerhat, Bangladesh. The organization is committed to promoting social development, gender equality, and sustainable livelihoods among adolescents, youth, women and girls, and other underprivileged vulnerable communities to climate change and socio-economic marginalization.
NACOM is a pro-environment organization established in 1987, working nationwide on biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, natural resource management, and sustainable livelihoods.
The Nice Foundation is a rights-based feminist Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Bangladesh. They work on human rights, refugee and forcibly displaced communities, environmental, and educational issues, aiming to reduce inequalities and social disadvantages. Our primary focus is on women, children, youth, adolescents, people with disabilities, gender-diverse communities, religious & ethnic minority groups, and the refugee community.
NRDS is a non-profit socio-economic development organization working with marginalized people and communities in the greater Noakhali region of the south-eastern coastal belt of Bangladesh. Since the early 1990s, it has focused on fighting poverty and injustice among landless and small farming families who face declining livelihood opportunities and frequent natural disasters. NRDS runs programmes on social development, local employment, microfinance, education, and fair trade (through its Kranti Fair Trade wing) to increase income, strengthen rights, and build community resilience.
Pani Adhikar Committee (PAC) is a civil society platform working primarily in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh to promote people’s rights to safe, affordable and climate-resilient water services. It brings together community representatives, activists, local leaders and sector experts to raise concerns on salinity, waterlogging, river and canal management, and inequitable access to water. PAC regularly engages in policy dialogues and campaigns—such as national roundtables on climate crisis and climate finance—to influence political commitments and public investment in favour of climate-vulnerable coastal communities.
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization, founded in 1937 and headquartered in the UK, that works in more than 80 countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas. It advances children’s rights and equality for girls, partnering with children, young people, communities, civil society, and governments to tackle the root causes of poverty, injustice, and gender discrimination. Plan International runs long-term development programmes and emergency responses in areas such as education, child protection, health, sexual and reproductive rights, youth economic empowerment, and climate and disaster resilience, guided by a strong, rights-based and gender-transformative approach.
PRAAN is a non-profit, non-government public interest organization that seeks development alternatives to strengthen people’s own initiatives, particularly in the greater Noakhali and other vulnerable regions of Bangladesh. Founded in 2004 by civil society activists, young researchers, and journalists from the coastal belt, it promotes human rights, economic justice, responsive governance, and sustainable livelihoods through a rights-based, locally led approach. PRAAN works with marginalized communities, especially farmers and coastal populations, on issues such as climate justice, agrarian and water rights, fiscal justice, and inclusive local governance, combining research, campaigns, and policy advocacy
Practical Action in Bangladesh is the Bangladesh country programme of Practical Action, a global development organization that uses technology and innovation to help people living in poverty build resilient livelihoods. Active since 1990, it works in both rural and urban areas to improve access to clean energy and cooking, promote climate-resilient and planet-friendly farming, and strengthen water, sanitation, and waste management systems. Its programmes put climate resilience, gender equality, and locally led solutions at the centre, supporting communities on the frontlines of climate change to adapt, prosper, and influence policies that affect their lives
Prantojon Trust is a Barishal-based non-profit development organization working primarily with marginalized rural communities in Bangladesh’s coastal belt. Founded in 2004, it supports smallholder farmers and disadvantaged groups through initiatives on climate justice, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and livelihood development. Alongside its social programmes, Prantojon has promoted fair market access for root-level farmers through ventures such as Prantojon Agro, which provides technical and marketing support for safe, locally produced agro-products.
RedOrange is an international communications consultancy operating from Bangladesh and the Netherlands, specializing in impactful, strategic communication for development and social change. It designs and implements communication strategies, campaigns, audio-visual content, digital tools, and project communication for clients in sectors such as climate change, water management, SRHR, human rights, health, and education. Bringing together strategists, project managers, creatives, and ICT experts, RedOrange works with governments, UN agencies, INGOs, and civil society to translate complex issues into compelling stories that inform, engage, and drive action.
Rupantar, meaning ‘social transformation’, is a non-government development organization that has been working in Bangladesh since 1995. Based in Khulna, it is now one of the country’s largest awareness and social mobilization organizations, using development communication, folk theatre, and community media to work across all 64 districts, with a special focus on the coastal belt. Rupantar’s programmes span democracy and good governance, peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, children’s rights, and popular media, aiming to empower marginalized communities and build a more just, resilient society.
SNV in Bangladesh is the country programme of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, a global development partner that has been present in Bangladesh since 2006. It designs impact-oriented, scalable programmes that help turn poverty into prosperity, with a strong focus on engaging the private sector, strengthening institutions, and promoting local ownership. In Bangladesh, SNV works mainly in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), agriculture/food systems, and energy sectors to improve services, build climate-resilient cities and livelihoods, and ensure that low-income and marginalized people benefit from inclusive, sustainable development.
SoDESH is a local non-government development organization established in 1995 and based in Satkhira, in Bangladesh’s southwest coastal region. Its vision is to build a sustainable, poverty-free democratic society where good governance and gender equality are ensured, and the livelihood security of vulnerable and poor people is improved. SoDESH works mainly in Satkhira, Khulna, and Jashore districts, empowering marginalized communities—especially women—through programmes on human rights, democracy, justice, good governance, gender equality, and climate- and water-related advocacy.
Songshoptaque is a youth-based cultural initiative turned development organization, established in 2000 by a group of young cultural activists in Chattogram, Bangladesh. Its name, a Bengali word meaning “fight to the death,” reflects its commitment to the socio-economic development of marginalized people, particularly women and children, through empowerment, economic development and social integration. Today, Songshoptaque works as a government-registered national NGO, implementing a range of social, cultural and humanitarian programmes that build the capacity of underprivileged groups and promote human rights, equity and dignity
Srijony Mohila Lokkendro is a local women’s organization based in Satkhira Sadar in Bangladesh’s southwest coastal region. It brings together grassroots women’s groups to raise awareness on human rights, prevent violence against women and girls, and strengthen women’s social and economic agency. The organization regularly arranges community meetings, such as awareness sessions and seasonal livelihood planning workshops, and joins broader civil society coalitions and human chains on issues like violence against women and the constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples.
Udayan Bangladesh (UDAYAN-Bangladesh) is a non-profit, non-governmental development organization established in 2000 and based in Bagerhat, on the south-western coast of Bangladesh. It works with poor, disadvantaged and marginalized people—especially women, children and adolescents—to empower them through education, health, human rights, livelihood support and disaster response. With a particular focus on coastal and climate-vulnerable areas, Udayan promotes economic emancipation and seeks to end social discrimination by strengthening community capacities and access to essential services.
WaterAid Bangladesh is the Bangladesh country programme of WaterAid, an international charity dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene for all. Active in Bangladesh since 1986, it focuses on climate-resilient and inclusive WASH services for poor and marginalized communities in urban slums, hard-to-reach and eco-hazardous areas, including the salinity-prone coastal belt. Guided by its Country Programme Strategy 2023–2028, WaterAid Bangladesh works with government, civil society and communities to strengthen systems, influence policy and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 on water and sanitation.
Presently World Vision Bangladesh is serving around five million children with interventions in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Livelihood, Child protection, Sponsorship, and Community Engagement in 28 administrative districts through 55 Area Programmes, 25 private non-sponsorship (PNS) projects, and 36 grant-funded projects.
YPSA is a voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit organization for sustainable development, founded in 1985 by local youth in Sitakunda, Chattogram. It envisions a society without poverty where everyone’s basic needs and rights are ensured, and works with poor and vulnerable populations to bring about their own and society’s sustainable development. YPSA now operates across multiple regions of Bangladesh on issues such as climate change and disaster risk reduction, education, health, disability inclusion, migration, peacebuilding, and ICT for development, and holds Special Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC.