AOSED- An Organization for Socio-Economic Development

Background: AOSED-An Organization for Socio-Economic Development is a non-government and non-profit development organization founded in 1999 and committed to conserving environment, ecology, biodiversity and facing the challenges of Climate Change and improving the standard of lives and livelihoods of vulnerable communities through ensuring their access to natural and common resources of the Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh. Since the journey, AOSED working on Water Justice, Food security and agriculture, Environment conservation & Climate Change, Health & Hygiene, Disaster Management issues through implementing different projects, programs and social action research with the cooperation of various level of national, international development agencies and research and educational institutions. Experiences and Expertise: Organization is addressing in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Safe water rights, provide drinking supply facilities, WASH. Disaster Management and ICT based early warning response mechanism, local level adaptation and mitigation considering adverse impact of climate change. Eco-friendly agriculture extension for increasing agro production to ensure food security through social mobilization, skill and capacity development, participatory research and technology transfer, service delivery, local resource mobilization, media and awareness campaign and advocacy. AOSED constantly consider vulnerable communities, human rights especially women and children, socio-economic-political and ecological changing context. Besides, enhanced capability of organization and achieve significant experiences and expertise through implementing various approaches projects and programs. These are; grassroots organization development, educational materials development, strategy of effective awareness and media campaign, develop training modules and guideline to conduct trainings, strengthen community based management and maintenance mechanism, local resources mobilization, local knowledge and information management, participatory action research, technology transfer considering ICT and renewable energy, policy review, implementation and recommendation.