Centre for Community Development Assistance (CCDA)

Centre for Community Development Assistance (CCDA), a pro-poor, non-political and non-profit development organisation started its journey in 1990 from Adampur - a remote village in Bangladesh under the Daudkandi upazila (sub-district) of Cumilla district. It was a humble beginning but with a noble and lofty vision of contributing to realising the dream of a Sonar Bangla (Golden Bengal) - free from poverty and inequality. Today, CCDA has incrementally spread its operations to 71 upazilas in 12 districts reaching out to about 3.8 lac beneficiaries through 100 branch offices. Starting with only a microcredit program in 1991, it has diversified its interventions over the years to areas such as microenterprise development, water, sanitation & and hygiene, human capital development, community mobilisation, etc. thanks to its more than 831 committed staff and robust strategy to scale up for impact. CCDA was registered from the Social Service Department under the Ministry of Social Welfare in 1990; NGO Affairs Bureau in 1996; and Microcredit Regulatory Authority in 2008. CCDA is governed by a General Council (GC), the supreme body of the organisation while a 9-member elected Executive Committee (EC) is responsible for the overall management, operation and implementation of projects.