Helvetas Bangladesh is part of a network of independent development organizations. With head offices in Switzerland, Germany and the USA, Helvetas is working in 29 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. We bring about real change in the lives of over three million disadvantaged people every year. We implement development projects in the areas of water and sanitation, agriculture and nutrition, education, economic development, democracy and peace, and climate and the environment. Helvetas also provides emergency response after disasters.

WaterAid has been operating in Bangladesh since 1986 as one of the lead actors in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, and is well experienced in innovating, scaling up and managing large scale projects targeting poor, vulnerable and excluded people. It has been registered with NGO Affairs Bureau since 1996. The geographic focus of WaterAid Bangladesh includes urban slums, hard-to-reach areas and eco-hazardous zones such as hill tract and hillocks, dry and arid barind tract, salinity-prone coastal belt, haor and flood-prone chars. We, along with our partner NGOs, have successfully developed and implemented model approaches for providing sustainable community managed WASH services and facilities for poor, extreme poor and marginalised people in different hydro-geological contexts of Bangladesh.

Over the past decades, the northern region, which is the home of SKS Foundation, has experienced certain degree of social, economic and political transformation with regard to development. Despite some visible improvement in school enrolment; women participation in income generation; local government system; agricultural activities and farm produce; vegetation coverage; communication network and so on, the region still remains poor, vulnerable and relatively backward. Absolute number of people living below the poverty line continues to be higher compared to national average. The region, particularly in terms of poverty reduction, did not progress as much as expected due to multiple factors.

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.

Since then NABOLOK takes development as a positive change of economic, social, political, cultural and moral aspects of human life. It empowers the powerless through concretization and alternative institution building for liberation of the majority of people from prejudices and exploitative mechanism of the society that breeds poverty and injustices.