IED, Institute for Environment and Development, is a group of social development activists have been working since 1994 for developing and promoting active citizenship among civil society members especially the young people with a goal to have a human fit and friendly environment all around. IED is functioning all over the Bangladesh in 23 districts of 6 divisions.
IED performs facilitating role of supporting and nurturing people’s initiatives through group of people, youth, women, poor, ethnic, volunteers & community organisations. It works towards with bottom-up right based approach. Proactive in momentum in community initiatives and to accelerate the development processes at grassroots & national level. All efforts of IED are geared towards improvement of environment through empowerment of people, especially youth, women, poor leading to ensure civil, political and social rights of individuals and groups.
IED is registered with Social welfare Dept. Government of Bangladesh vide no. Dha-03553 dated 8.4.1996, and NGO Affairs Bureau, GOB vide no. 1866 dated 13.8.2003.
Vision & Mission
A democratic, ecologically balanced, economically productive, and culturally diversified society based on dignity and social justice where everyone’s potentials are fully explored.
Promote gender equity, livelihood security, governance and sustainable environment. IED strive this by challenging the root causes and facilitating people’s initiatives in mobilizing local communities, women, youths and other marginalized groups with a spirit of activism.
Goal
Contribute to establish an enabling environment for the disadvantaged people to be able to get organize, demand and create access to their rights and quality services for livelihoods security.
Core Values
Sensitivity towards people:
IED remain sensitive to the need, opinion, values, and culture of every individual.
Changing mindset
Dynamism: IED encourage experimentation and develop knowledge base for greater impact.
Inclusion:
IED make every effort to bring every body, particularly the disadvantaged and marginalized people poor in the development program.
Diversity:
IED accept diversity in culture, environment, and gender are integral to development.
Secularism:
IED believe and encourage secularism in every aspects of social and national level without showing any disparity to any religion and caste.
Identity of IED
IED is a national rights based organization works with underprivileged and marginalized people especially women, youth and minorities focused on rights, governance and environment through institution building, awareness raising, economic empowerment, social mobilization, advocacy and promoting peoples initiatives. IED firmly believes that people are at the center of concerns for sustainable development. According to IED the rights based approach is concerned not just with civil and political rights but also with social, economic and cultural rights.
The five key principles that govern rights based approach of IED are:
Participation
Ensuring participation of stakeholders in planning, designing, implementing and evaluating program
Changing mindset
Program would focus on the changing mindset of the stakeholders towards a more progressive and democratic ethos and culture
Geographical focus
Increase the depth of the programming in a limited number of locations rather than spreading more evenly (and thinly) over a large geographical area.
Experimentation and learning
Encourage experimentation and learn continually. The learning will be integrated institutionally as well as programmatically.
Micro-macro linkage
Establish effective linkages between macro level policy and its implications on the lives of people. Similarly micro level issues will be linked with the policy reform agenda.
