IDEA - Institute of Development Affairs

IDEA Profile

1.             Name of the organization:   Institute of Development Affairs (IDEA)

2.             Name and contact details of Executive Director/Chief Executive Director: 

Nazmul Haque

Executive Director, IDEA

House-8, Road-4, Block-A

Shahjalal Upashahar, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh

Tel: +88 02 996641328, Cell: 01712-176667

E-mail: idea.sylhet@yahoo.com

Website: www.idea.org.bd

3.             Registration number:

4.       Legally constituted Executive Committee (EC) and list of membership:

IDEA has twenty one membered general membership as supreme authority from cross section of society. Executive Committee elected by the general members for three years’ time period.

5.        Membership & Partnering:

·       FNB (Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh)

·       Bangladesh NGO Foundation (General Member)

·       CSRL  (Lead of HAOR region NGOs)

·       SUPRO   (Sylhet District lead)

·       CAMPE ( Council Member)                       

·       DBM (National Committee Member, Secretary for Sylhet)

·       CDD (Network Member)

·       EWG (Implementing Agency)

·       Institute of Environment and Development (IED)

·       Right to Food Movement (Central Committee Member, District Co-Convener)

·       FANSA (National Member)

·       NAHAB (Member) Network for Information Response and Preparedness Activities on Disaster –NIRAAD (Member)

·       Water Sanitation Services Collaborative Council -WSSCC (National Member)

·       National Alliance of Humanitarian Actors Bangladesh –NAHAB ( Member)

·       Bangladesh ObivashiAdhikar Forum –BOAF(Executive Member)

·       Transparency International Bangladesh-TIB (Sonak Member)

6.      Donors:

IDEA has received funding from-

UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, USAID, The World Bank, The British Council, The Asia Foundation, SDC, ECHO, CARE, GlobalGRACE UK, The Carter Center-US, Educo-Spain, Child Fund Korea, CDMP, Netherlands Government, Ireland Government, AusAID, CIDA, Japanese Government, OXFAM, GTZ, Democracy International, IUCN Netherlands, WINROCK, Swisscontact, Concern, Childaid Network-Germany, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, WaterAid-UK, Concern, Plan International, World Central Kitchen-UK, ITDG-UK, United Purpose, Penny Appeal-UK, Katalyst, Chevron-US, ARECOP Indonesia, ESD Global, BRAC, LafargeHolcim, SUMMIT Group, HSBC, MJF, WSSCC, NILG-GOB, CAMPE, SUPRO, FANSA-BD, CDD, DBM, RtF, KHANI, KN, BOAF, JCF, CNRS, NGO Forum for Public Health, and DoE. DoWA, DoA , BNF of GOB

7.      Geographical Area Coverage:

IDEA has started project activities with the help of a foreign donor since 1996. The Central Support Office of IDEA is based in Sylhet city, while it has been operating field activities in 36 Upazila of Sylhet division in Bangladesh. In most of the Upazila IDEA has its branch offices. The names of Upazila are mentioned below: 

It is notable that, IDEA has been implemented projects/ programme in Brahmanbaria and through local partners in Netrokona and Kishoregonj districts.

8.     Vision:

IDEA envisages a socio-economically just and egalitarian society, free from all forms of discrimination, exploitation, and injustices.

9.     Mission:

IDEA works with the poor and disadvantaged people in order:

• Help empower poor and disadvantaged people, establish their rights, improve their socio-economic condition, and enhance their livelihoods;
• Help reduce vulnerability, strengthen social protection and improve the capacity of women, men, youth, adolescent,s and children through quality education, human and skill development activities, health care, economic empowerment, climate change adaptation, and humanitarian responses for disadvantaged people.
• Help make positive changes in people’s lives at the local, national, as well as global levels through networking, partnership, and collaboration with government, national and international civil societies, private sectors, and communities.

10.   Objectives:

·       To ensure access and enjoy learning opportunities of children, youth, women, and the disadvantaged, and to upgrade their lives, livelihoods, and leadership through quality education, lifelong learning,g and human capacity development.

·       To empower people by helping establish their rights, establish good governance in the service sector, and promote gender equality and gender sensitivity.

• To promote reproductive health and primary health care services for women, adolescents and children, and to propagate preventive measures, establish an alternative community-based health care system and promote WaSH in underserved areas.• To strengthen community initiatives through technical and financial alternative support services for poverty alleviation and improve the standard of living through vocational skill development, employment, and income diversification.• To conserve nature and environment and improve capacities of people on mitigation of disasters induced by climate change, natural and man-made calamities, pandemic diseases and others.• To build network, alliance and lobby with nationally and globally on policy re/formulation and implication of policies, democratization, governance, environment protection and conservation of nature, disasters and vulnerability, and management of common property resources etc.

 11.     Core Values of IDEA:

To maintain a very congenial working environment within and outside, IDEA’s staff will strongly follow the following core values.

·       Inclusiveness:  IDEA is committed to engage, support and recognize the value of equity and participation regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, physical or mental ability and socio-economic status.

·       Integrity: Value of responsibility, transparency and accountability in all professional work, with clear policies and procedures, while displaying the outmost level of honesty in financial dealings

·       Effectiveness: Value of efficiency and excellence in all work, constantly challenging ourselves to perform better, to meet and exceed programme targets, and to improve and deepen the impact of all interventions.

·       Creativity: Value of innovation in designing projects/programmes and strives to expose sub-national leadership in groundbreaking development initiatives.

·       Commitment: IDEA determined its works to improve people’s lives through socio-economic empowerment opportunities.

·       Participatory Decision: Sharing views, information, experiences of staff members and sound basis of participatory decision making process, IDEA encourages self-initiatives based on sense of responsibility.

·       Nonpartisan: IDEA follows and maintains democratic, secular, gender responsive policies and practices.

12.     Core Competencies

IDEA’s credibility and achievement due to its professional persistence approach to empowerment of people, the multi-dimensional approach to development of poor and disadvantaged. Following core competencies have been identified:

•       Founders and leadership of IDEA represents renowned dynamic personalities and committed to make positive changes in society.

·         IDEA has ability to implement right based multi-dimensional and integrated development programmes leading towards poverty alleviation for poor anddisadvantaged.

•            IDEA has established its position as lead of CSOs in sub-nationally i.e., in greater Sylhet and haor region in north east Bangladesh. IDEA earned good reputation and trust among national level non-government sectors for collaboration, networking and advocacy works.

•       IDEA has earned good reputation, working relations and linkage with administration, local government, government service providers, private sectors, civil society, academic institutions and media.

•       IDEA has good track record and culture of transparency among its members, staff, development partners as well as regulatory authority including administration.

•           IDEA has membership in several divisional and district level committees on behalf of CSOs in Sylhet region.

•       IDEA has good inter personal and gender friendly working environment within the organization and with the people it works.

·         IDEA is able to contribute towards capacity building of its network organizations and other CSOs and CBOs.

•       IDEA has adapted number of policies to prevent and rectify incidences including misappropriation of fund, inefficiency, maintain donor compliance and run the organization with good reputation.