AID Foundation
Organization's name:
AID Foundation
Former Name(s):
Action In Development
Headquarters address
Address:
AID Complex, Shatbaria
Jhenaidah
Bangladesh
Phone:
+88045161188-90
Fax:
+880045161196
Email:
info@aid-bd.org
Web site:
www.aid-bd.org
Bangladesh
Organization type:
Foundation
Languages::
Bengali
English
Remarks:
RB, 17-10-19: per request from the NGO (see letter of intend) and in order to match the certificate of registration, name has been changed from "Action In Development" to "AID Foundation".
Contacts & Participation:
First Name:
Last Name:
Contact Type:
Tarikul Islam
Palash
Social Development , Committee on NGOs Representative , Sustainable Development (primary)
Activities
Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social
:
Agriculture
Business and Industry
Children
Food
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Micro-Credit
Peace and Security
Social Development
Sustainable Development
Water
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Social Development
:
Cooperative
Disabled persons
Indigenous issues
Sustainable Development
:
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Climate change
Desertification and Drought
Gender equality
Health
Geographic scope:
Regional
Asia
Country of activity:
Bhutan
Bangladesh
India
Nepal
Millennium Development Goals:
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Mission statement:
A large number of inhabitants in our society have no right of entry to essential foodstuff, health services, education, and basic rights and like other basic essentials. They are poor and underprivileged and the society itself is culpable for their distress. And such situation can be improved if they are making available with mandatory co-operations. In this situation AID has designed to cooperate with these poor and underprivileged peoples through implementing projects and programs. Mainly AID would like to bring into being self-financed, self-employed and self-empowered communities with capabilities greater than before by providing need based services and supports like awareness raising, nutrition, health, sanitation, education, agriculture, savings, credit, marketing, gender, environment etc.
Year established (YYYY):
1992
Year of registration (YYYY):
1996
Organizational structure:
AID Foundation consists of 7 members who are distinguished with highly reputation in business profession in the locality with pro-poor mindset, elected to the Executive Committee to bring their diverse skill and experience to the governance of AID Foundation. Among the members Tarikul Islam Palash, General Secretary of EC is the Chief Executive and Founder of the organization. Four meeting and an Annual General Meeting (AGM) were held in 2015. Apart from General Committee and Executive Committee, AID Foundation has also a Management Committee. Under the leadership of Founder & Chief Executive the management committee pursues the day to day activities following the policies and guidelines formulated by the EC. It includes one Executive Director, 2 Deputy Directors and 9 Program Coordinators and holds meeting once in each month.
Number and type of members:
AID consists of 21 General Members and 7 Executive committee members. General Committee selects the 7 executive committee members.
Affiliation with NGO networks:
• The Union-France • Stichting Liliane Fonds-STICHTING LILIANE FONDS-SLF, NETHERLANDS, Netherlands • Manusher Jonno Foundation-MJF • Department of Women Affairs, Government of Bangladesh • Bangladesh NGO Foundation • Working for Better Bangladesh (WBB Tru
Additional Information
Sustainable Development
Major Group affiliation:
Indigenous people
Workers and trade unions
Business and industry
Children and youth
Local authorities
Women
Non-governmental organization
Farmers
Affiliation with other organizations:
Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB), National Forum of Organization Working with the Disabled (NFOWD), Madaripur Legal Aid Associations, Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Working for Better Bangladesh (WBB Trust), Governance Coalition, Bangladesh Anti Tobacco Alliance ( BATA), Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), Asian Arsenic Net work, Japan ( AAN), Credit and Development Forum (CDF), National Youth Council of Bangladesh (NYCB), Coordinating Council for Human Rights in Bangladesh (CCHRB), Center for Women and Children Studies (CWCS), Padakkhep Consortium (AqDP), Consortium of Development Partner (CDP), Department of Women Affairs, Planet Finance (France)
Publications:
Personnel Management Policy, Financial Management Policy, Savings and Credit Policy, Gender Policy, Environment Policy, Vehicle Policy, Shishu Shurakkha Policy, Procurement policy, RTI Policy, Others: Organizational 5 years Action Plan. Labor rights, organic vegetable production, family law, AID, No smoking sign, Tobacco Labor rights, Organic cultivation, Farmer Rights. Labor laws, organic cultivation, Agriculture information kit, Tobacco. PWDS rehabilitation, Women labor, Scope of organic cultivation, Suicidal phenomenon in Jhenaidah District, Nabaganga river. INAS , Well-being survey report. Farmers Rights, Tobacco, PWDs Farmers Rights, PWDs. Prevention of Polygamy, Early Marriage and Family Oppression among the Dalit Community.
Main Objective
Special Event / Application for Consultative Status with ECOSOC Username: edaidbd@gmail.com