DHARA

and implementation of community interventions that are financially, technologically, and environmentally efficient and thus contribute to achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Year of Establishment: 2001

Legal status: Registered, as a non-profit and non-governmental organization with the Government:

No. Department of Women's Affairs MBA-218 18-01-2003
2. Development of Youth 45/2004 03-04-2004
3. NGO Affairs Bureau 2216 3-4-2007
4. Europea ID(Pador) BD-2009-FSP-2601926582

Contact Person: Lipika Das Gupta, Executive Director. Mission and objectives
Mission: Serve the needs of women to reduce their relatively higher vulnerability to poverty, disaster, and climate change by equipping them with skills, knowledge, opportunity, and access to decision-making and through this, empower them to also accelerate sustainable living by the disadvantaged poor communities. Objective: In fulfilling our mission, the objective of DHARA is to:
• Promote human rights, awareness, and motivation
o Democracy and human rights
o Family laws, women trafficking, etc. o Children's rights
o Hygiene promotion, with particular reference to an adolescent girl, mother, and child
o STDs and HIV/AIDS
o Drama, by the children of the beneficiaries
o Inter/national days observance
• Improve access to basic services
o Health: Mother & Child Healthcare (MCH) and primary healthcare services. o Water & sanitation: Safe drinking water, toilet, and eco-toilet. o Education: Non-formal primary education and adult literacy
o Agriculture, aquaculture and nursery: Food security through improved access to quality seeds, flood and saline water resilient crop seeds, production and storage
o Shelter: Low-cost, flood resilient, and cyclone-resistant housing
o Energy: Improved solar home systems, bio-fuel, Improved Cook Stove (ICS), biogas, etc.
• Strengthen capacity to generate income & livelihood
Skills development and support for various farm and non-farm Income Generating Activities (IGAs).
• Develop access to alternative micro-finance
Women groups to mobilize resources.