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Uttaran, which means ‘transition’, in Bangla language, is a people centred organisation using a rights based approach to alleviate poverty, diversify livelihood opportunities and empower poor communities throughout the southwest region and gradually expanding to other parts of Bangladesh.  The core focus of Uttaran programs are human rights, land rights and agrarian reform, community based river basin management, sustainable water management, adaptation to climate change, ecological agriculture and food security.


Our vision & mission​


Uttaran’s vision and mission reflects our aspiration to work in partnership with local communities and vulnerable individuals to reduce poverty and improve lives.


Vision: A society with gender, class and caste equality.


Mission: Equip the disadvantaged people with the tools needed to deal with their social, environmental, health, economic and cultural issues and concerns.


Goals


We develop our strategies in partnership with local communities and marginalized groups. This people centered approach is vital to making sure that we are able to fulfill our goals.


  • Eradicate poverty by creating enabling environment for income, asset base for the poor
  • Promote environment friendly sustainable agricultural practices 
  • Ensure education, health services to the underprivileged and extreme poor
  • Ensure people’s participation and good governance 
  • Ensure quality of life in time of natural and artificially created disaster
  • Promote equality, human rights and social justice 

Strategies


  • Organization and capacity building for the poor
  • Ensure sustainable livelihood practices for women and poor
  • Ensure women and poor’s entitlement to social services (education, health, safety net)
  • Raising voice, influence and agency of poor through advocacy, campaigns, lobbying and networking
  • Mainstreaming of rights, gender and inclusion issues 
  • Building pro poor partnership
  • Result Based Management (RBM) practices 

Values


  • Accountability and transparency
  • Non-discrimination and mutual respect
  • Gender equality
  • Commitment
  • Team spirit
  • Creativity
  • Conservation of resource

Members:

Mamun Rashid

Resources

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Workshop report on Baseline survey_Land project_Uttaran

Reports & Research
November, 2013
Bangladesh

Uttaran is the pioneer leading national non-government to promote rights for landless people of Bangladesh since 1985. Uttaran recently implementing a project namely Sustainable Access to Land Equality (SALE) in association with Department of Land Records and Survey under Ministry of Land in Bangladesh with funding support of European Union. Baseline survey to know the existing scenario of the working area, particularly the vulnerability of land owners during digital survey and settlement.

Monitoring and Evaluation Framework_Land project_Uttaran

Manuals & Guidelines
November, 2013
Bangladesh

The land project of Uttaran combines a variety of interventions that, as a whole, should lead the reduction of extreme poverty and conflicts related to land and property ownership. This  document describes an M&E framework that will serve to document the progress of project interventions as well as describe or estimate impacts on land and property rights for all citizens especially the poorest part of the targeted community.

Training Report on Land Survey & Record Preparation

Training Resources & Tools
October, 2013
Bangladesh

The Overall objectives of the project is strengthening access to land and property rights for all citizens especially the poorest part of the community in line with the overall Access-to-Land program being implemented by Ministry of Land through DLRS. This project is implemented in three districts under three upazilas of Bangladesh: Amtali upazila of Barguna, Jamalpur sadar upazila of Jamalpur and Mohonpur upazila of Rajshahi District. NIRAS a consulting firm of Denmark is responsible for providing technical support for GNSS machinery operation and ETS.

Report on Monitoring and Evaluation Framework Workshop

Training Resources & Tools
September, 2013
Bangladesh

SALE project organized a workshop on monitoring and evaluation framework at proshika HDRC trust, koitta, Manikhonj from 08-09 October, 2013. It was mainly two days workshop for SALE project staff. Amar Krishna Baidya, TC- Knowledge Management Care Bangladesh facilitated the workshop program in association with Project Coordinator Mr. Mamun Ur Rashid of SALE project and Head of Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation (HPM&E) Mrs. Suraiya Ferdous.