Uttaran, which means ‘transition’, in Bangla language, is a people centred organisation using a rights based approach to alleviate poverty, diversify livelihood opportunities and empower poor communities throughout the southwest region and gradually expanding to other parts of Bangladesh. The core focus of Uttaran programs are human rights, land rights and agrarian reform, community based river basin management, sustainable water management, adaptation to climate change, ecological agriculture and food security.
Our vision & mission
Uttaran’s vision and mission reflects our aspiration to work in partnership with local communities and vulnerable individuals to reduce poverty and improve lives.
Vision: A society with gender, class and caste equality.
Mission: Equip the disadvantaged people with the tools needed to deal with their social, environmental, health, economic and cultural issues and concerns.
Goals
We develop our strategies in partnership with local communities and marginalized groups. This people centered approach is vital to making sure that we are able to fulfill our goals.
- Eradicate poverty by creating enabling environment for income, asset base for the poor
- Promote environment friendly sustainable agricultural practices
- Ensure education, health services to the underprivileged and extreme poor
- Ensure people’s participation and good governance
- Ensure quality of life in time of natural and artificially created disaster
- Promote equality, human rights and social justice
Strategies
- Organization and capacity building for the poor
- Ensure sustainable livelihood practices for women and poor
- Ensure women and poor’s entitlement to social services (education, health, safety net)
- Raising voice, influence and agency of poor through advocacy, campaigns, lobbying and networking
- Mainstreaming of rights, gender and inclusion issues
- Building pro poor partnership
- Result Based Management (RBM) practices
Values
- Accountability and transparency
- Non-discrimination and mutual respect
- Gender equality
- Commitment
- Team spirit
- Creativity
- Conservation of resource
Members:
Resources
Displaying 36 - 40 of 52Training Report of the Open Street Map_Uttaran, Bangladesh
On 20th -21st July, 2014 Uttaran was organized a training of trainers (ToT) on Open Street Map for the volunteer group at Elenga Resort in Tangail by the technical support from the World Bank.
The workshop on the assessment of the Services provided by the Land administration
The assessment workshop organised in order to know about the strength and weakness of land administration from the experience of staff of different projects of UTTARAN. Secondly the workshop was organised to know the challenges faced by the landless people in accessing Khas (state) Lands (Legal, Social and Cultural) in Bangladesh in practices.
Guidelines for Preparing a List of Homeless and Landless People, Bangladesh
The Jamalpur district administration has decided to prepare an online database of the real landless and homeless in Jamalpur Sadar Upazila. Forming the selection committees at Union and Ward level is an effective step to make the list of real landless and homeless people. This will make the identification process of the actual landless, poor and vulnerable people easy, acceptable to all and impartial. I hope that once the list is finalised, it will be useful in selecting beneficiaries for the various safety net and development programmes of the present government.
Access to Public Resources by Asserting Rights And Justice for Economic Opportunities- APARAJEO Project
APARAJEO is working for establishing land rights to the landless people in Southwest Bangladesh. At present, total of 150,214.64 acres of khasland lies in the southwest region. And over one million landless people exist in the targeted areas. At the end of the project, 44,000 landless peoples of Satkhira and Khulna district will have increased access and
Sustainable Access to Land Equality - SALE
Utaran began work on the Sustainable Access to Land Equality (SALE) project to ensure transparency and accountability in land governance in December 2012, in partnership with CARE Internaional UK and Manusher Jonno Foundaion (MJF). The project engaged communiies in three pilot upazilas - Amtali Upazila of Barguna District, Mohanpur
of Rajshahi, and Sadar of Jamalpur-to raise the awareness of vulnerable landowners about land administraion, and to effect transparent processes for selecing landless people and for khasland setlement.