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VARD Eye Hospital, Elashpur, Osmani Nagar, Balagonj, Sylhet

The effort and initiatives of VARD are creating opportunities for Education, Health, Nutrition and Population, Income Generation and Employment, Sustainable Agriculture, Advocacy, Local level institution development, Networking, Community based Disaster Management, Environment, Micro-credit, Housing, Poverty alleviation, Women empowerment and Social well-being among the rural & urban disadvantaged poor population in Bangladesh.

We are grateful to the Government of Bangladesh, concern local and international donors for financial and technical support to implement the activities of VARD and hope the assistance for continuing in future too.

Foreword

	Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD) was established in 1988. Since it’s inception it has been working with the poor people of the community for their socieo- economic development. VARD started its work in Sylhet at the beginning. Now it is working in 55 Upazilas under 10 districts of Bangladesh. We have planned to expand it’s activities to in wider areas with an integrating development approach in rural and urban areas.
	This website will reflect the achievements of VARD which it has achieved during years 1988 to 2008. We tried to serve the community to the best of our ability. We have achieved many of our targets and in this process; we have learned many lessons on development that motivate us to keep on improving our organization and our services.

We acknowledge with gratitude the support of all development partners, donors, government Ministries / Departments and all of my colleagues. I would also like to express my shorn appreciation to our members of executive committee and General body for their valuable support and cooperation.

Amranul Hoque Kamal
Executive Director
VARD

VARD Profile Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD) is a national Non-Government Organization (NGO), established in January 20, 1988 with the initiative of founder and Executive Director and former UN volunteer Mr. Amranul Hoque Kamal. VARD runs major part of its integrated development activities from Sylhet Office, located in the divisional headquarter of Sylhet division, northeast part of the country. VARD also implements project’s activities and maintain communication and liaison with donor agencies and other related organizations from Dhaka Office in the capital city of Bangladesh.
Chief Executive	: Mr. Amranul Hoque Kamal

Designation	: Executive Director

The date of inception	: January 20, 1988


Legal status

To ensure legal validity, VARD has obtained the following registrations from the respective Department of Government of Bangladesh (GOB):

(A) Department of Social Service

Registration No: Syl-158/88
Dated: 17 th November 1988

(B) NGO Affairs Bureau (Foreign Donation)

Registration No.: # 387
Dated: 13th December 1990 (Last renewal date: 15-12-2005 )

(C) Directorate of Family Planning

Area allocation renewal approval letter under the Directorate of Family Planning
Renewal No. 52/06
Dated : 22nd August 2006

(D) Joint Stock Companies, Bangladesh

Societies ACT Registration No. : S-2442 (35)/2000
Dated: 7th August 2000

(E) Micro Credit Regulatory Authority

Registration No. : 0000052
Dated : 5th September 2007

Background

Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD) runs its major parts of development activities in Sylhet division, which still belongs to relatively untouched area, sufficient local development institutions did not emerge, government initiatives have been as else where rudimentary, the gap between poor and rich rise social imbalance, high degree of conservatism and significant influence of fundamental have hindered the process of development in the Sylhet division.

Child and adult education is low, high dropouts are normal phenomena, health facilities and health centers are inadequate, family planning services are poorly available, hygienic sanitation practice is alarming form, access to safe drinking water is scare and credit for the poor is not accessible. Natural water flow is disrupted. Natural calamities like flash flood and earthquake are frequent phenomena, siltation of rivers and canals results in water logging and flash floods, risk reduction activities are not effective in terms of mass awareness on disaster risk reduction & management, relief & rehabilitation, social terrorism reign over laws, people are vulnerable to easy drug availability, local cottage industry is diminishing due to missing market linkage, lack of capital and lack of modern production technology, people are not aware about sustainable and livestock. Tea garden workers are traditionally living as quasi slaves. Government's khasland policy is influenced by the encroachers and influential people. The infrastructure facilities in the area are underdeveloped, social and religious leaders do not actively participate in the development activities.

Mission & Vision

Vision of VARD

The vision of VARD is "an enlightened humanistic society with a sustainable basis for livelihood."

Mission of VARD

VARD is committed to develop a self-reliant and socially competitive community of poor, women and children. We strive to accomplish this through poverty alleviation, health care, institution building, livelihood development and networking. Our actions are driven by the principles of equity, sustainability and environmental protection.

VARD Training Center , Shahjalal Upashahar, Sylhet

Values of VARD

The people of VARD have agreed on a set of values as guiding principles to establish a favorable internal environment and thus contribute to the defined mission.

The staff member will practice mutual respect at work place

VARD will evaluate its employees based on their performance

Free sharing of experiences, view and information will create a sound basis for organization decisions

Participatory practices and mutual cooperation will govern interpersonal behavior

Organizational rules and regulations will apply equally for all

VARD will encourage self-initiative and sense of responsibility

Self-criticism and honesty will be the cornerstones of staff behaviour

Employees will use resources economically and prudently towards making a sustainable institution

The staff member will consider the organizational issues a strictly internal. They will remain conscious of gender

sensitive behaviour both at work place and out side.

Beneficiary orientation (peoples demand, local resource mobilization, cooperation with stakeholders) will always apply in program

planning, implementation and evaluation.

Objective of VARD


A.	To organize economically and socially vulnerable people especially women towards self-reliance and empowerment.

B.	To strengthen capacity of the community people in institution building and group savings, to take collective initiative to
	alleviate poverty of community people through income & employment generation.

C.	To establish gender equity in the society and ensure the empowerment of women.

D.	To drive away the illiteracy from the community through implementing education programs for the adult, adolescent and
	children.

E.	To provide community and clinic based reproductive health care, child health care and nutrition services as well as raises
	awareness on primary health care, nutrition, sanitation and safe drinking water. To manage and prevent/control of STIs, RTIs, HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases.

F.	To provide comprehensive eye services and community based rehabilitation with a sustainable basis

G.	To promote echologically sound and sustainable agriculture, social-forestation, fisheries and lovestock.

H.	Establishment of own resources to increase income for the sustainability of the organization.

I.	To organize and develop network under the leading of VARD by uniting the local NGOs/Community Based Organization (CBOs)
	those work at grass-root level in the development aspect in view of organizational capacity building as well as maximum utilization of available local resources.

Geographical coverage (working area) of VARD

VARD mainly works with and for the landless, destitute and vulnerable people in Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Sunamgonj and Habiganj districts in Sylhet Division - the area are mostly hilly and low-lying marshy land where most of the people live in below poverty line, the employment and earning opportunities are very limited, as a result major portion of the able manpower remains unemployed.

VARD also implements development activities in Comilla district under Chittagong division and Dhaka, Norsingdhi, Gazipur , Mymensingh and Netrokona districts under Dhaka division. VARD's working area is shown in the figure below:

Division	District	No. of Upazila/Thana	No. of Union/Ward Under City Corporation	No. of Village/Moholla
Sylhet	Sylhet	12	82	2204
	Sunamganj	11	92	2188
	Moulvibazar	6	45	1005
	Habiganj	8	56	1301
Chittagong	Comilla	4	30	607
Dhaka	Dhaka	6	11	30
	Norsingdhi	3	34	649
	Gazipur	1	11	156
	Mymensingh	1	11	139
	Netrokona	3	28	596
Total	10	55	400	8875

Management structure

General Body

General Body (GB) consists of 21 members from different professionals. GB meets once yearly in the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The role of GB is to elect Executive Committee (EC) member for 2 years duration, review the on going organizational activities and approve the yearly organizational activity plan and annual budget.

Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee consists of 3 members from different professionals selected by the GB for 2 years duration. The role of Advisory Committee is to advice the EC while the organization faces any critical crises or problems and plays an active role on organizational management and development.

Executive Committee

Executive Committee consists of 7 members-elected by the GB for 2 years duration. EC meets once in every two months to discuss the progress of organizational activities, take part in policy making process, organizational management, development and take initiative to implement of the different activities of the organization and solve problems if organization faces so far. The EC remains accountable to the GB and the Executive Director remains accountable to the EC.

Program Management

In order to sustainability, VARD developed 6 core programs comprising of different projects. The ongoing programs are:

	Economic and Livelihood Development Program (ELDP)
	Health, Nutrition and Population Program (HNPP)
	Comprehensive Eye Care Services Program (CESP)
	Education Program (EP)
	Agriculture and Environment Program (AEP) and
	Disaster Risk Reduction Program (DRRP).

Programs are head by Director (Program) and implemented by Deputy Director, Assistant Director and Deputy Assistant Directors through project team.

Support Divisions and Units

For supporting programs, there are different divisions and units are functioning those are:

	Human Resource Management Division (HRD) headed by Deputy Director (Admin)

	Finance and Accounts Division (FAD) headed by Deputy Director (Finance & Accounts)

	Program Support Unit (PSU) headed by Deputy Director

	Monitoring and Evaluation Unit (MEU) headed by Director and

	Internal Audit Unit (IAU) headed by Director.

The Director (Program) is responsible to coordinate all the programs through the related Deputy Directors, Assistant Director, Deputy Assistant Directors /program personnel under the dynamic leadership of Executive Director. They take part to assist the Executive Director in all the aspect related to organizational development. The Director (Program) is directly accountable to the Executive Director. The Director (Program) is immediate supervisor of all Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors and Deputy Assistant Directors.

Advocacy Meeting with district administration on Water & Sanitation

Staff Strength

Presently VARD has 7188 organizational staff members where 906 are males and 6282 are females including volunteers. The following table shows the figure:

Type of Staff	Male	Female	Total
Full time	688	422	1110
Part time	01	5662	5663
Volunteers	217	198	415
Total	906	6282	7188

Program & Activities of VARD

VARD implements integrated development programs for poverty reduction and to promote institutional capacity towards sustainable development of the community. Program wise on going activities of VARD are as follows:

Economic and Livelihood Development Program (ELDP)

Health, Nutrition and Population Program (HNPP)

Comprehensive Eye Care Services Program (CESP)

Education Program (EP)

Disaster Risk Reduction Program (DRRP)

Agriculture and Environment Program (AEP)

Economic and Livelihood Development Program (ELDP)

ELDP is one of the core programs of VARD. Mainly it has been introduced to alleviate the poverty through formation of grass-root level people’s organization, their fund generation, creation of income and employment opportunities and microfinance support. ELDP assists land-less, hardcore poor and under privileged community people to organize them under Village Organization (VO) and to utilize available local resources and human potentiality to uplift their socio-economic status. Another component of ELDP is entrepreneurship development interventions which deliver services to entrepreneurs in helping them to unleash and develop their entrepreneurial qualities and potential to establish and operate business in a completive market economy.


Poultry Farm of Micro credit beneficiary	Mini Dairy Firm of Micro credit beneficiary

The specific objectives of the component are to create wealth with equity in the local community, build capacity of entrepreneurs to undertake profitable business ventures, enhance operation efficiency of micro and small enterprise and promote employment and income opportunities through promotion of micro and small enterprise. Another vital component of ELDP is training. This training includes staff training as well as beneficiary training. The ultimate goal of ELDP is to alleviate poverty and to empower economically and socially destitute people specially women.


Mini garments of Micro credit beneficiary	Flood protected house for a Hardcore family

The major activities of ELDP

	Formation of Village Organization (VO), Self- Help Group (SHG) and Federation

	Provide livelihood skill development training

	Develop micro and small enterprises

	Microfinance support

	Mobilize group savings

	Adapt micro insurance policy

	Financial support for low cost rural housing

	Mobilize local resource and

	Provide life skill education

	Sensitize different stakeholders about women's rights

	Enhance women to raise their voice against violence, stigma and discrimination

	Provide training for potential entrepreneurs for unlocking their competencies, business planning, fund mobilization,
	business operation and management

	Provide technical support for feasibility study and business planning

	Provide business counseling

	Assist to develop linkage with financial institutes

	Assess training needs

	Organize and facilitate staff development training as well as beneficiary training

	Build capacity of the organization

Health, Nutrition and Population Program (HNPP)

The overall objective of VARD-HNPP is to achieve a sustainable improvement of the health, nutrition, including family planning of the population particularly vulnerable groups of it’s working area through reducing maternal mortality rate, reducing total ferity rate, reducing malnutrition, reducing infant and under five mortality, reducing HIV/AIDS, malaria and other common diseases.


Supplementary feeding for malnourished children	Anti Natal Care for pregnant women at Samon Halim Health Clinic, Chauddagram, Comilla, A project of VARD

The major activities of HNPP

Reproductive Health Services; maternal care, family planning, maternal nutrition, adolescent health care, management and

prevention/control of RTI, STI and HIV/AIDS,

Child Health Services; immunization, treatment and management of diarrhoea and other childhood diseases, treatment and

management of Acute Respiratory Infections, management of micronutrient deficiency


Child treatment at Static Clinic for reproductive health	Meeting on reproductive health and nutrition at village adolescent forum

Communicable Disease Control; treatment and management of tuberculosis, malaria, kalazar and leprosy,

Limited Curative Care; treatment and management of minor injuries and infection,

Behavior Change Communication; develop client oriented positive attitudes, enhance health seeking behavior and promote

healthy lifestyle behavior

Establish Community Reproductive Health Center

Ambulance service ablish

Promote safe water and sanitation ; distribute tube-well & ring-slab, raise awareness on pure drinking water & hygienic

sanitation use etc.

Comprehensive Eye Care Services Program (CESP)

The goal of CESP is to contribute to the reduction of avoidable blindness and to promote social inclusion of Visually Impaired (VI) people of program areas. VARD is providing the following eye care services and facilities through VARD Eye Hospitals and community based rehabilitation program.

Provide out door patient services on eye care management

Perform cataract surgery implanting Intra Ocular Lens (IOL) using Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS)

Detection of early childhood blindness and pediatric Cataract Surgery through referral and subsequent follow up

Perform Minor and major surgery; Decro Cysto Rinostomy ( DCR), Decro Cystectomy (DCT), Glaucoma surgery, Excision of

Pterygium, Abscess drainage, Dermoid cyst. excision, Incisions and curettage chalazion, Foreign body removal, Removal of stitches, Stye drainage

Provide medicine without cost


Block nurse is giving block to prepare patient for cataract surgery	Cataract surgery at Operation Theater of VARD Eye Hospital

Post- Operative care and follow-up service

Urine and Random Blood Sugar (RBS) test

Provide best correction on refractive error

Assessment of Low Vision and provide devices for the people with Low Vision (LV)

Reduce childhood bliendness

Ambulance service

Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR):

Provide training of the person with visualy impaired (VIPs) on oriantation and mobility and daily living skill

Link VIPs with financial institution following Income Generation Activities (IGAs)

Social inclusion of VIPs through family Counseling, awareness meeting and sensitization

Establish the rights of VIPs through Self Help Group of Blinds.


Female ward of VARD Eye Hospital	Vision test service at VARD Eye Hospital

Main Services provided by VARD Eye Hospitals are :

Provide prescriptions for all eye diseases

Cataract Surgery with IOL (Arolab India) by Manual Fecho Cataract Surgery with IOL (Alcon America) by Manual Fecho

Decro Cysto Rinostomy (DCR) Surgery

Decro Cystectomy (DCT) Surgery,

Glaucoma surgery

Pterygium ( Normal) Surgery

Pterygium (Grafting) Surgery

Other minor Surgery

Provide power optical through computerized test

Free Small Incision Cataract Surgery by using Inter Ocular Lens for Curable blind.

Our distinctiveness:

	Cabin facilities
	Clean general wards
	Low cost but standard services
	Free cataract surgery with IOL for hardcore poor in the project areas
	Test facilities with modern devices
	Experienced and expert doctors for diagnosis and treatment
	Well decorated operation theatre with ultra modern equipments
		Child Cataract Patient after surgery by VARD Eye Hospital

Our Diagnostic services:

Biometric Scan

Refraction

Identification of Eye pressures

Sec test

Eye dressing

Urine Sugar test

Random Blood Sugar (RBS) test

Assessment of Low Vision

Education Program (EP)

The overall goal of education program is to contribute in the national goal, “Education For All (EFA)” by 2015. VARD intends to introduce and provide support and access to life oriented non-formal education programs, responding to the needs of economically underprivileged people. The focus is on the provision of qualitative, formal, non-formal and adult (mass literacy) education through the collaboration with Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, Government of Bangladesh and other available resources from NGO sectors. Another objective of the program is to promote good governance through community mobilization, advocacy and networking on social justice.


Embroidery training for street children at VARD Drop in Shelter in Sylhet	VARD Primary School at Patny village, Goainghat, Sylhet.

The on going activities of EP are :

	Provide Formal Education, Non-Formal Education for children, adult and adolescent

	Strengthen the Primary School Managing Committee (SMC) and Parents Teachers Association (PTA)

	Establish primary school and learning centers

	Provide vocational training and life skill education

	Support for job placement

	Establish legal rights

	Provide shelter facilities for street children

	Strengthen the capacity building of local government

	Enforce existing laws and order to establish child & women rights

	Continue advocacy


Formal primary education through VARD Primary School at Nondirgoan , Goainghat , Sylhet	Education at Shonglap Center for Adolescent girls.

Disaster Risk Reduction Program (DRRP)

The major portions of VARD working areas are in low-lying, haor-basin, mushy and beneath -hill which are commonly affected by floods & flashes while there are heavy rainfalls. Considering the situation, VARD is providing services to the community people for disaster risk reduction through awareness buildup, relief and rehabilitation to the victims of natural calamities such as floods, cyclone, heavy rains, earthquake and draughts. Therefore the ultimate goal of the DRRP is to reduce disaster risks and compensate the victims to restart their livelihoods again.


After flood agriculture rehabilitation activities implemented by VARD, for landless poor farmer	Flood protected house for hardcore poor families

Major activities of DRRP are:


	Community awareness raising on disaster risk reduction and management

	Provide training on disaster management and preparedness

	Disburse soft (non-interest) loans

	Provide financial supports for flood protected house construction

	Provide supports for agriculture rehabilitation

	Organize medical campaign to provide emergency medical services

	Provide supports for tub well repair and sanitation re-installation

	Distribute relief

	Provide supports for infrastructure repair and maintenance

Agriculture and Environment Program (AEP)

Traditionally, agriculture production in Bangladesh is oriented towards paddy cultivation, to the extent that signs of monoculture have appeared during recent years, with partly decreasing yields. VARD intends in this sector to promote sustainable agriculture technology and practices of land use for making economically profitable, socially just and ecologically sound towards the improvement of environment. VARD also intends to focus on the alternative utilize of available land, particularly for social forestry and homestead gardening. Attention is given to the best use of the alternative land in a profitable agriculture sector so that it could lead to the improvement of the local resources base and employment scopes of small and marginal farmers and entrepreneurs especially women and poor people.


Rural women are drinking safe tub-well water	Bumper production of tomato through modern technology

Current activities of AEP are:

	Transfer technology for sustainable agriculture

	Diversify crops

	Establish market linkage for product marketing

	Transfer modern fish culture technology

	Tree plantation

	Provide off agriculture technology training

	Reform & development lands for maximum utilization

	Provide homestead vegetable gardening training

	Facilitate nutrition education

	Promote village nursery

	Provide logistic support

	Promote poultry for nutrition

	Organize campaign on sustainable agriculture and sound environment

	Conserve tropical forest

	Raise awareness on wildlife protection and ecologically critical area conservation

	Create alternative income and employment for wetland community,

	Advocating local government and private, institutions for sustainable agriculture and environmental balance

Support divisions and units of VARD

Human Resource Division (HRD):

Major activities of HRD are to

	Prepare staff development plan
	Staff recruitment and deployment
	Maintain records and documents
	Prepare reports and documents
	Provide logistic and equipment support
	Maintain communication and liaison with other organizations
	Maintain personnel procedure
	Organizational policy development and adaptation
	Maintenance organizational assets
	Vehicle management
	Procurement

Finance & Accounts Division (FAD):

Major activities of FAD are

	Maintain books of accounts
	Maintain project wise income and expenditure,
	Prepare budget
	Regular budgetary analysis and maintain budgetary control
	Maintain financial transaction
	Prepare procurement plan
	Prepare financial reports
	Maintain financial records and documents
	Maintain store and stock
	Organize auditing

Internal Audit Unit (IAU):

VARD established an IAU to ensure financial transparency at all level of organization

Major activities of IAU are

	Perform project wise periodic audit
	Perform need based audit
	Prepare audit reports and provide feedbacks
	Conduct follow up audit
	Assess financial capacity of organization
	Assist in external auditing
	Assess the financial capacity of partner/consortium/network organizations

Monitoring & Evaluation Unit (MEU)

VARD has established MEU to attain/ensure qualitative and quantitative achievement of project implementation and to have future direction of further project designing.

Major activities of MEU are

Prepare monitoring and evaluation plan

Vocational training for street children at Drop in center in Sylhet

Develop monitoring tools

Conduct monitoring and evaluation,

Prepare monitoring and evaluation reports

Provide necessary feedbacks and recommendations

Ensure quality service delivery

Conduct interim and annual project evaluation

Participate in external monitoring and evaluation

Program Divission (PSD):

Program coverage of VARD activities are increasing day by day. VARD has developed PSD to satisfy increasing demands of documentation, communication and future searching which has smoothened the project designing.

Major activities of PSD are

Prepare project documents

National Immunization Day observance organized by Government and VARD

Communicate and maintain liaison with other organization

Contact with donor agencie

Prepare various types of report and documents

Maintain regular correspondence with donors

Prepare and preserve administrative papers and documents

Collect updated information, publications and journals

Contribute in program and projects implementation

Participate in organizational policy development and implementation

Contact with consulting firms for organizational necessary consulting services

Participate in the donor meetings and brief related staff members

Maintain regular donor searching and fund raising activities

Advocacy and networking

Resource mobilization

Ongoing Projects and Donar

Sl.#	Project Title	Donor	Project Duration
Sl.#	Project Title	Donor	From	Up to

01	Village Sanitation Center (VSC)	NGO- Forum, Bangladesh	Sept.1995	continue
02	Participatory Social forestry and Strip Gardening	Department of Forest, GOB	Jan. 2000	Continue
03	Rural Micro Credit (RMC) Program	PKSF, Bangladesh	Feb. 2000	Continue
04	Urban Micro Credit (UMC) Program	PKSF, Bangladesh	Feb. 2000	Continue
05	Talent Financing (TF) Project	Stromme Foundation (SF), Norway	Sept. 2001	Continue
06	Flood Protected Housing & Income Generating Activities (FPH-IGA, Phase - II).	Stromme Foundation (SF), Norway	Jan. 2002	Dec. 2009
07	Social Intervention towards Sustainable Development (SISD)	Stromme Foundation (SF), Norway	Jan. 2002	Dec. 2009
08	VARD Health Clinic	Self financing	Jan. 2002	Continue
09	Haor Elaka Unnayan Nagorik Oikkya (HUNO) Project	Action Aid , Bangladesh	July 2002	Dec. 2009
10	Sylhet Street Children Livelihood Project (SSLP)	The Global Ministries of the Uniting Protestant Churches in the Netherlands The Netherlands	Jan. 2003	Dec. 2008
11	Micro Finance and Technical Support (MFTS)	IFAD and Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), Bangladesh	July 2003	June 2010
12	National Nutrition Programme (NNP)	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & World Bank.	Dec. 2003	Sep. 2009
13	Food Security Through Sustainable Households Livelihood (FoSHoL).	ActionAid Bangladesh	Aug. 2005	Mar. 2009
14	Ultra Poor Program (UPP)	PKSF, Bangladesh	April 2005.	Continue
15	Micro Enterprise Lending (MEL)-GOB	PKSF, Bangladesh	Jan. 2005	Continue
16	Basic Education for Hard -To -Reach Urban Working Children (BEHTRUWC) Project Phase-II	Bureau of Non Formal Education - Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and UNICEF	March 2006	Oct. 2011
17	NGO and Civil Society Networking Project (NCSNP)	NGO- Forum	June 2006	Dec. 2010
18	Haor Initiative for Sustainable Alternative Livelihood (HISAL) Project	Concern Bangladesh	July 2006	Sept. 2011
19	Effort for Capacity-building of Community based Organization (ECCO) Project	Stromme Foundation (SF), Norway	July 2006	Dec. 2011
20	Community Based Sustainable Water Hygiene and sanitation Project (CBS-WHSP)	WaterAid , UK & Bangladesh	Sept 2006	March 2009
21	Preparedness for Effective Emergency Response (PEER) Project	Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh	Oct. 2006	Sept. 2009
22	Eradication Hazardous Child Labour in Bangladesh 2 nd Phase	Ministry of Labour and Employment-GOB	Nov. 2006	April 2009
23	Comprehensive Eye Care & Community Based Rehabilitation (CEC & CBR)	Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind –Sight Savers International ( RCSB-SSI ) Uk-Bangladesh	Jan. 2007	Dec. 2009
24	Childhood Blindness Reducing Project (CBRP)	RCSB-SSI , Bangladesh	Jan. 2007	Dec. 2009
25	Sanitation Hygiene Education and Water Supply in Bangladesh (SHEWSB) Project	Department of Public Health (DPHE)-GOB and UNICEF	Feb. 2007	Jan. 2009
26	Livelihood Restoration Program (LRP)	PKSF, Bangladesh	Feb. 2007	Continue
27	Protection of Children at Risk (PCAR)	Dept. of Social Services, GOB and UNICEF	Apr. 2007	Dec 2008
28	Micro Insurance Mutual Entrity (MIME)	INAFI –Asia and Bangladesh	Jan. 2007	Dec. 2008
29	Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS and Malaria (GFATM)- Malaria Control Program	Global Fund	June 2007	March 2009
30	Eastern Bangladesh Rural Infrastructure Development Project (EBRIDP)”	Local Govt. Engineering Department (LGED)-GOB & Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)	July 2007	June 2009
31	Samon Halim Health Clinic (SHHC)	VARD	April 2005	continue
32	VARD Training Center	Self financing	Oct. 2007	Continue
33	Promoting Health Rights Through ESP Delivery (PHRT-ESPD)	CORDAID, the Netherlands	Jan 2008	Dec. 2010
34	Promoting Reproductive Health Demand through Stimulating Health Rights and activating local health service delivery systems (PRHD-SHR)	CORDAID, the Netherlands	Jan 2008	Dec. 2010
35	Stop Violence Against Women (SVAW) Network	Action Aid, Bangladesh	Jan. 2005	Dec. 2009
36	Livelihood Recovery Supports Project (LRSP)	Action Aid, Bangladesh and ECHO	April 2008	Feb. 2009
37	Financial Inclusion of the Rural Poor in Bangladesh through Remittance	IFAD, EU, IDB, CGAP and UNCDF	August 2008	November 2009
38	Maternal Neonatal and Child Survival (MNCS) Projects	Concern Worldwide Bangladesh	Sep 2008	Aug. 2012
39	Uphold Repproductive Health Rights through Promoting institutional Delivery (URHR-PID)	CORDAID, Netherlands
40	Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR)	ORDAID, Netherlands	Jan. 2009	Dec. 2009

Past Donor History & Supported Project:

SL.

Project Title

Donor

Project Duration

From

Up to

01.

Community Poultry Project (CCP)

Netherlands Embassy, Bangladesh.

Jan. 1989

Dec. 1989

02.

Training for Rural Youth for self-employment & Economic Social Action for Under privileged (TRYSEM & ESAUP)

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)- Canadian High Commission, Bangladesh

Apr. 1991

Mar. 1992

03.

Poultry Firming Project (PFP)

International Development Exchange (IDEX), USA.

Jan. 1992

Dec. 1992

04.

Educational Skill Training for the Destitute Women (ESTDW)

UNDP-PDP, Dhaka , Bangladesh

Feb. 1992

Jan. 1993

05.

Poultry Training and Rearing Center (PTRC)

South Asia Partnership-Bangladesh

Aug. 1991

Jul. 1993

06.

Rice- Fish Pilot Project (RFPP)

PACT & ADAB, Bangladesh

Jan. 1993

Dec. 1993

07.

Family Planning Project (FPP)

CARE-Bangladesh.

Mar. 1993

Feb. 1995

08.

Fisheries Development Project (FDP)

OXFAM- Bangladesh.

Apr. 1995

Mar. 1996

09.

Functional Educational Program (FEP)

APHD- Hong Kong

Sept. 1992

Aug. 1996

10.

Sanitation Development Program (SDP)

UNICEF-Bangladesh

Mar. 1995

May 1997

11.

Non-Formal Primary Education (NFPE)

OPAM, Italy

Sept. 1996

Oct. 1997

12.

Income Generation Program (IGP)

Trickle Up Program (TUP), USA .

Aug. 1996

Dec. 1997

13.

Sylhet- Sunamganj Minor Irrigation Project (SSMIP)

NEMIP, Ministry of Agriculture, GOB.

Sept. 1996

Apr. 1998

14.

HIV/AIDS/STDs

HASAB, Bangladesh

Sept. 1996

July. 2000

15.

Advocacy Education for Civic Participation (AECP)

IVS - USA , BD

July 1998

Dec. 2000

16.

Cage Aquaculture for Greater Economic Security (CAGES) Project

CARE Bangladesh

Jan. 2000

Dec. 2000

17.

Capacity Building of Networking NGOs.

CDS, Dhaka , Bangladesh

June 2000

Apr. 2002

18.

Maternal Child Health and Family Planning (MCH-FP)

Interact Worldwide U.K.

Apr. 1993

Mar. 2001

19.

Micro Enterprise Development Initiative (MEDI)

CIDA- BD & Geraman Technical Cooperation (GTZ), - Bangladesh

Apr. 2000

Mar. 2001

20.

Agriculture Technology Transfer Project (ATTP)

BARC-DAE, GOB. & PROSHIKA

July 1999

June 2001

21.

Income Generation Program for Rural Landless Families (IGPRLF).

Stromme Foundation (SF), Norway

Sept. 1993

Dec. 2001

22.

Agriculture Technology Transfer Project (ATTP)

Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council (BARC) & Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE)- GOB, GOB

Jan. 1999

Dec. 2001

23.

Flood Protected Housing & Income Generating Activities (FPH-IGA).

Stromme Foundation (SF), Norway

Jan. 1998

Dec. 2001

24.

Capacity Building Project (CBP)

PRIPTRUST, Bangladesh .

June 2000

April 2002

25.

Sylhet Cataract Campaign (SCC)

RCSB-SSI-UK , Bangladesh

Oct. 1998

June 2002

26.

Social Mobilization for Access to the Public Resources (SMAPR)

DFID & PROSHIKA, Bangladesh

Jul. 1998

June 2002

27.

Rural Women Development Project (RWDP)

CORDAID, The Netherlands

Sept. 1996

Aug. 2002

28.

Competency based Economic through Formation of Entrepreneurs (CEFE)

German Technical Co-operation (GTZ)

Feb. 1999

Oct. 2002

29.

Modular Eye Care (MEC)

RCSB-SSI-UK , Bangladesh

Oct. 1998

Dec. 2002

30.

Eye Hospital cum Health Center Construction Project (EH-Cum-HCP)

Embassy of Japan , Bangladesh

Mar. 2001

Dec. 2002

31.

Integrated Vegetables Cultivation in Homestead Garden (IVCHG)

ASIRP, Dept. of Agriculture Extension, GOB

Mar. 2001

Feb. 2003

32.

Striving towards Lucrative Livestock Production (SLLP)

Dept. of Livestock Services & DAE, GOB

Nov. 2002

Feb. 2003

33.

Social Intervention of Increase Crops Production (SIICP)

Dept. of Livestock Services & DAE, GOB

Nov. 2002

Feb. 2003

34.

Non-Formal Education Program (NFEP).

Dept. of Non-Formal Education (DNFE), GOB

Feb. 1997

July. 2003

35.

Nutrition Surveillance Project (NSP)

Helen Keller International-USA Bangladesh

Feb. 2003

Jan. 2004

36.

Efforts for the Authentic Development of the Tea Labour Families (EADTLF) Project

International Labour Organization (ILO), Dhaka

Aug. 2003

Feb. 2004

37.

Post Flood Assistance Intervention (PARI) Project

CORDAID, The Netherlands .

May 2004

Oct. 2004

38.

Health Promotion Through Essential Service Package Delivery (HPT-ESPD)

Bangladesh Population and Health Consortium (BPHC), Bangladesh

Apr. 2001

Dec. 2004

39.

HIV/AIDS Awareness & STDs Prevention Project (HIV/AIDS-APP)

CARE, Bangladesh

June 2004

Mar .2005

40.

Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Assistance (ERRA)

CORDAID , The Netherlands

15 Aug. 2004

15 Feb. 2005

41.

Flood supported for Relief and Early Recovery of Poor Marzinalized and Vulnerable Households

Action Aid Bangladesh

Sept. 2004

Feb. 2005

42.

NGO Gardening & Nutritional Education Surveillance Project (NGNESP).

Helen Keller International- USA, Bangladesh

Feb. 2000

Mar. 2005

43.

Implement the Pilot Project on Livelihood Skill for Hard to Reach Graduates ((IPPLS-HTRG)

UNICEF, Bangladesh

Dec. 2003

June 2005

44.

Non-Formal Primary Education (NFPE)

BRAC, Bangladesh .

July. 1995

Dec. 2005

45.

Housing Credit Program (HCP)

Bangladesh Bank.

Mar. 1999

May 2005

46.

Micro Enterprise Credit Project (MECP)

Sonali Bank, GOB.

Aug. 2000

May 2005

47.

VARD Eye Hospital cum Health Center Construction Project Phase-II

The Embassy of Japan , Bangladesh

March 2005

May 2006

48.

Relief and Rehabilitation Assistance (RRA) Project

Stromme Foundation (SF), Norway

Aug. 2004

June 2006

49.

Mobile Operation Theatre - Habiganj & Sylhet Project (MOT-HSP)

Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind -Sight Savers International (RCSB-SSI), Bangladesh

Jan. 2003

Dec. 2006

50.

Comprehensive Eye Care Services -Sunamgonj Project (CES-SP)

Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind -Sight Savers International (RCSB-SSI), Bangladesh

Jan. 2003

Dec. 2006

51.

Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) Program

Department of Women Affairs –GOB and World Porgram (WFP)

Feb. 2006

Dec. 2006

52.

Reproductive Health Clinic (RHC)

Poplar HARCA / Interact Worldwide, U.K.

Feb. 2001

Jan. 2007

53.

Appropriate Resources for Improving Street Children's Environment (ARISE)

Dept. of Social Services-GOB and UNDP

Apr. 2000

Mar. 2007

54.

Special Program for Food Security(SPFS) Project

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and DAE Bangladesh

Aug. 2003

June 2007

55.

Health Promotion Through ESP Delivery(HPT-ESPD)

CORDAID, The Netherlands .

Jan. 2005

Dec. 2007

56.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Project for Hotel &Residence -based High Risk Groups (PNS-HRHRGP-HAPP)

UNICEF, Bangladesh

Aug. 2004

Dec. 2007

57.

Reproductive Health Promotion through Essential Service Package Delivery (RHP-ESPD) Project

CORDAID, The Netherlands .

Jan. 2002

May 2008

58.

Livelihood Protection of Rural Poor (LPRP)

Stromme Foundation (SF), Norway

Dec. 2007

May 2008

59.

Safety Intervention for Hard core Poor (SIHCP)

CORDAID, The Netherlands

Nov. 2007

Oct. 2008

60.

HIV & AIDS Targeted Intervention (HATI) project

UNICEF, Bangladesh

Jan. 2008

Dec. 2008

VARD is involved in the group activities
(Data up-to June 2008):
[Grass root level People’s Organization]

No of group	No of group Members	Total savings (in BDT)	No of total families benefited by VARD’s programs & projects	No of total family members benefited by VARD’s all activities.
1,984	41,061	5,63,92,184	5,54,372	29,46,809

Membership, Network and Federation Development

VARD has obtained membership of the following Network organizations and getting benefits from them regularly;

SL.	Name of the Organization	Benefits
01.	Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB)	Information, Data, Funding Source
02.	Association for Voluntary Administration (AVA), U.S.A.	Information, Data, Funding Source
03.	Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), Dhaka, Bangladesh	Information, Data, Papers, Training, materials and funding.
04.	Bangladesh Fund Raising Group (BFRG), Dhaka, Bangladesh	Information, Data, Funding Source
05.	Campaigning for Popular Education (CAMPE), Dhaka , Bangladesh	Training, information, Newsletter, data and papers
06.	Forum for Regenerative Agriculture Movement (FoRAM), Dhaka, Bangladesh	Training, information, data and papers.
		Training, information, data and papers.
07.	GO-NGO Forum, Dhaka , Bangladesh	Information, Data, Funding Source
08.	International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE), U.S.A.	Information, Data, Funding Source
09.	STI/AIDS Network of Bangladesh	Materials, Training, Newsletter, information etc.
10.	NGO- Forum, Dhaka , Bangladesh	Cash, Kinds, Training, Material etc.
11.	Voluntary Health Service Society (VHSS), Dhaka , Bangladesh	Training, Booklet, Materials, information etc.
12.	Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD), Dhaka , Bangladesh	Training, Lobbying, Capacity Building , and Net working.
		Training, Lobbying, Capacity Building , and Net working.
13.	Credit and Development Forum (CDF), Dhaka , Bangladesh	Training, Lobbying, Capacity Building, information
14.	Sylhet Disaster Management Forum (SDF), Sylhet, Bangladesh	Information, Data, Papers
15.	Enterprise Development Network (EDN)	Materials, Training, Newsletter, information etc.
16.	Bangladesh Aqua Culture Development Society (BADS)	Information, Data, Papers
17.	The Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB)	Information, Data, Funding Source
18.	BSNet Limited- Business Services Network	Information, Data, Funding Source
19.	Child Development Forum (CDF)	Information, Data, Papers, Training, materials and funding.
20.	National Forum of Organizations Working with the Disable (NFOWD)	Information, Data, Newsletter, Funding Source

Network Development

The major aim of network is to build up strong unity and coordination among the local NGOs in Sylhet Division and build up capacities on Training, Fund raising, Donor Linkages, Experience Sharing etc. Particularly to strengthen organizational capacity in the areas of Education, Training, Microcredit and reproductive health care services that makes available resources among the community in Sylhet Division.

Federation Development:

Formation of federation of Village Organization (VO) by the group members of the organization is an integral part of the institution building process for which VARD is approaching the concept since 1995. The federation is in three categories:

	Village Development Committee (VDC)- consists of 9 members from organized group leader of 2 villages.
	Union Development Committee (UDC)- consists of 11 members of VDC Leaders.
	Upazila Development Committee (UzDC)- consists of 13 members of UDC Leaders.

The VDC, UDC and UzDC comprise one President, one Vice President, one General Secretary, one Assistant General Secretary, One Treasurer and rest are general members. All members of the committee meet regularly in monthly meetings to identify problems of VOs, build-up leadership, institutional and federation capacity, justify loan distribution procedure, discuss social norms and women rights and build-up cooperation, mutual trust and grass root level people's organization. VARD is providing training for the federation leaders and committee members for capacity build up to smoothly run the federation activities.

Facilities available at VARD

VARD offers facilities of guest-house (3 and 2 bedded room), Conference Room, Training Room (residential and non-residential), training-materials, training equipment, vehicles services, photocopy, e-mail, internet, telephone and fax those are available both at its Dhaka and Sylhet Office.

Director Admin, National Nutrition Programme(NNP)
in a workshop organized by VARD

Supplementary feeding for malnourished pregnant women, under National Nutrition Programme(NNP), implementing by VARD

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