Period: 2015-2019:
STRATEGIC ISSUES:
- Strengthening institutional capacity of SAP-Bangladesh and its partner organizations
- Strengthening institutional capacities of the grassroots’ organizations
- Developing ecologically balanced environment
- Strengthening organizational sustainability
- Strengthening good governance and democracy practices
- Developing gender sensitivity
- Developing child protection and child rights
- Initiating programs for inclusive and differently able people
- Initiating programs on different development sectors for marginalized group of people
- Strengthening the local NGO-initiatives that help program implementation and ensuring cost effectiveness
- Exploring and mobilizing available domestic resources at the highest level of program interventions
STRATEGIC ISSUES WITH DIRECTIONS:
ISSUE 1. STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES OF SAP-BANGLADESH AND ITS PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
- Development of human resources that include the staff members of SAP-BD and its partner organizations
- Development of policy and Systems on financial transactions, information technology, monitoring, networking, and career development of staff members
- Leadership enhancement and development of secondary leadership
- Support partner organizations in implementing service delivery program
- Develop resource center that provides and disseminates reliable information to both internal and external environment
ISSUE 2. STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES OF THE GRASSROOTS’ ORGANIZATIONS
- Strengthening right-based approach in program designing, planning and implementation
- Strengthening health, hygiene, nutrition & sanitation of grass-root communities
- Increase community participation and raising voices of poor people, especially the women’s voices in decision making and policy formulation
- Strengthening the grassroots’ organization towards institution building through undertaking long-term and sustainable program
- Enhance capacity building of program participants and leadership development
- Strengthening community-led programs
ISSUE 3. DEVELOPING ECOLOGICALLY BALANCED ENVIRINMENT
- Developing awareness on the preparedness and strengthening support to disaster management
- Strengthening community-based environment management Programs
- Organizing and developing local volunteers/youths for emergency disaster management
- Providing emergency support to address the disasters
ISSUE 4. STRENGTHENING ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
- Strengthening microfinance program growing partnership with Banking & Non-banking financial institutions
- Exploring and mobilizing available domestic resources at the highest level of program interventions and generating own fund
- Identifying pro-poor and sustainable programs, and developing long-term partnership with donors
- Strengthening existing income generating programs
- Undertaking innovative long-term, right-based programs, and developing model programs
- Establishing and promoting best practices of organizational culture and values
- Developing internal control and anti fraud mechanism
- Market driven enterprise development partnership with skilled feasible stakeholders
ISSUE 5. STRENGTHENING GOOD GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY PRACTICES
- Establishing good governance within organization and partner organizations
- Providing support to ensure human rights and political rights towards community empowerment
- Enhancing empowerment of elected public representatives and promoting participatory decision making process
- Strengthening transparency and accountability at all level of the organization
ISSUE 6. DEVELOPING GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
- Establishing gender equity within the organization and partner organization
- Mainstreaming gender in program designing, planning and implementation
- Increasing participation of women in the local political process in terms of establishing voter rights, decision making, and empowerment
- Strengthening capacity of the members of local government to manage basic service delivery in a participatory, accountable and gender sensitive way by working closely with the CBOs
- Developing gender policy and its effective implementation
ISSUE 7. DEVELOPING CHILD PROTECTION AND CHILD RIGHTS
- Developing policy strategies in establishing child rights and ensures protection
- Advocacy to ban Physical and Humiliating Punishment of children in all settings
- Capacity development of parents/caregivers and teachers on Positive Discipline techniques
- Address online child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Strengthen families and communities to reduce vulnerabilities of children to violence
- Contribute to national and community based child protection system strengthening
- Be part of a movement to make violence against children socially unacceptable
ISSUE 8. DESIGNING AND INTEGRATING PROGRAMS FOR INCLUSIVE AND DIFFERENTLY ABLE PEOPLE
- Initiating programs for inclusive, mentally and physically disable group of people
- Developing capacity of mentally and physically disable group of people including adolescent and youths
- Establish networks and linkages with the relevant organizations
- Integrating other development programs with the issues of inclusiveness and disability
ISSUE 9. ENHANCINING DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT SECTORS FOR THE POOR AND MARGINALIZED GROUP OF PEOPLE
- Initiating programs for different development sectors for poor and marginalized group of people
- Contributing to the national sector development programs undertaken by the government
- Enhancing sustainable agriculture and ensuring livelihood security
- Improving reproductive health situation and developing planned family
- Developing early childhood and adolescent of the poor and marginalized families
- Provide support to the government policy implementation in increasing literacy rate in the country through primary education
ISSUE 10. STRENGTHENING THE LOCAL NGO-INITIATIVES TO HELP THEM EFFECTIVE PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- Developing systems of financial transactions at all level of local NGOs
- Developing institutional capacity and professionalism at all level of the organization
- Providing support to capacity development for effective program implementation
- Institutionalizing the information sharing and networking
- Developing systems and long-term policies for financial management
ISSUE 11. EXPLORING AND MOBILIZING AVAILABLE DOMESTIC RESOURCES AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS
- Interlinking programs and promoting cost effectiveness
- Initiating contributory programming
- Mobilizing local Resources and strengthening community efforts
- Introducing long-term and sustainable cost recovery system
- Mobilizing local resources and inclusion of women and the youth in the process
- Indentifying local partners and donors