Community Development Association (CDA)

Community Development Association (CDA) is a highly secular, non-partisan-non-Government Development Organization (NGDO) established in the year 1985-1986 in North Western Part of  Bangladesh CDA gradually has been shifted its strategic position from charity to a Right based Organization now facilitating among the poorest, landless and marginal farmers along with the plain land indigenous people (IP) including the differently able men, women &youth with a view to empower, ensure and secure access to land Rights from its inception. Initially, CDA entered voluntarily in the rural poor communities in the remotest villages in greater Dinajpur district the then and it was committed to organize the rural landless poor with the concept of Integrated Community Development Program(ICDP) and tried to unite them in several small groups at their doorsteps in several villages from 1985-86 to 1988 -89 in association with OXFAM-GB &CAFOD-APHD-Hongkong.

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Vision

A People Cantered Democratic & Just Society where people living with Dignity, Equality and Ecological Balance Environment which is ensure Sustainable Development.











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Mission

CDA’s Mission is to create an enabling environment through context analysis which it aims-

· Building Unity among the Vulnerable People through Institution Building. 

·  Ensuring Land Rights to the Landless People through People centred Land Governance & Protect Land Rights Defenders.

· Empowering the Disempowered (Women, IP’s, Disable, Youth, Children, Religious Minority and LGBTQ in situation of systematic poverty, hunger, diseases, illiteracy, inequality and injustice.

·   Protect Environmental Degradation.

·Generating Employment through Entrepreneurship Development.

· Ensuring Healthy & Nutritious Food Security through Sustainable Organic Agriculture

·  Building Convergence with local government tiers.

·   Ensuring right to life through climate resilience.

Approach

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PARTICIPATORY
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BOTTOM UP DECITION MAKING
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ESC,Civil, Political & HR
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Learning by doing
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Networking & Linkages

Values

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Living with People
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MUTUAL RESPECT​
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ACCOUNTABILITY​
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PROFESSIONALISM
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TEAM WORK​

Strategies of CDA

Facilitated to Human Rights defenders (Activism)

Advocacy and Communication

People centered land Governance through institution building

Facilitated to Human Engagement with CSOs/NGOs (networking)

Convergences Building and partnership

CDA's Contribute to SDG

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What We Do

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Institution Building
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Land Right
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Agrarian Reform
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Climate / Ecology
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Women Empowerment
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Youth Empowerment
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Empowerment of IPs/Ethnic Minorities/DA
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Sustainable livelihood

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