Udayankur Seba Sangstha started its journey in 1997 with awareness raising program on poverty, health, education, gender equity, discrimination among the boys and girls, sanitation in the poor community. It is realized, that in the prevailing social system the rural poor are being overlooked, they remain out of reach of the so-called development programs. We strongly believe that without wholehearted participation of target group and their empowerment, none of the development initiatives could be fulfilled. Thus USS is working in the northern part of Bangladesh and encourages the poor for changing their socio-economic condition on their own.
Vision
A society economically prosperous, culturally vibrant, socially just and democratically governed. A society based on the principles of equality, cooperation and freedom. A society citizens have human rights and living with peace and dignity.
Mission
Creative social transformation through promoting, assisting and encouraging deprived and marginalized people to build institutions, capacities and processes towards prosperity, sustainability and democratic self governance.
Role
USS primary role as facilitator, in supporting people to critically analyze the situation, identify the causes, define the solutions, formulate the alternative vision, plan for action and strategies to achieve desired results. Facilitation of an emancipatory process that enhances their capacity and strengthens peoples institutions and solidarity to address their urgent crisis as well as building alternative systems.
Strategic Objectives
- To ensure food and livelihood security
- To promote quality education for all
- To protect environment sustainability
- To secure gender and social justice
- To establish democratic self governance
- To promote peoples culture
- To access to entitlement rights and services
Strategy: The strategic concern for USS is to address two types of issues; the urgent and immediate crisis as well as the policy and actions of remote forces that maintain structural deprivation. In case of urgent issues, the deprived and marginalized people facing, for instance, Monga, unemployment and abject poverty, violence against women, illiteracy and drop out from primary and secondary schools and common disease. The exploitation through market mechanisms, denial of access to entitlement rights and services, and neo-liberal policies are the issues have structural dimensions and long term implications.
Concerning strategic options, given the threats, opportunities and challenges in the context, and considering the value premise and societal aspirations of USS, choice of educative/facilitative approach with multiple strategy options would be appropriate.
Considering the capacity and resources, the educative/facilitative strategy is the combination of following components:
I. Capacity enhancement
II. Institutional strengthening
III. Networking
IV. Advocacy
USS Experience: In the beginning of 2003, USS has defined and designed program approach called Participatory Action Research (PAR) through which it has experienced that creating enabling environment is a vital issue for self-help development. And to complement this, there also need to focus on other aspects of societal issues to reinforce the purpose of PAR. Therefore, under the mother program, USS started work simultaneously on:- Gonogobeshona Prokalpo
- Shishu Gobeshona Kendro
- Human Rights Education program
- Popular Cultural Program
- The Community Paddy Bank Project
- Production of Agam Amon Breedhan-33
- Training on mat production
- Participatory Childhood Development and Community Empowerment
- Farmers Field School (FFS)
- Community development And Monga mitigation for the Poor through Upgrading Social capital (CAMPUS)
- Adolescent Livelihood Opportunity (ALO)
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