32 Years beside the Poor

Translating the Vicious

Circle of Poverty

into the

Virtuous Circle of Prosperity

Counting on Collective Action

Mounting Campaign for Poverty Alleviation

Vision

Vision

BEES has the vision of a just society in which men and women can work together to form institution to attain a higher degree of self-reliance in managing their own affairs and achieve a higher and sustainable standard of living.

Mission Statement

Mission Statement

To bring about changes in the lives of the poor, illiterate, neglected, unskilled and destitute people, especially women of the society, through their empowerment, self-reliance and improvement of life style by its endeavors for sustainable development.

Target area & population

Target area & population

BEES’ institutional set-up is encompassed into 17 Area Offices and 91 Unit Offices in different districts while the Central Office is located in Dhaka. BEES’ development initiatives have been expanded in 3,126 villages of 116 upazilas under 29 districts. The districts covered by BEES programs/projects are Dhaka, Gazipur, Hobiganj, Brahmanbaria, Narsingdi, Kishoreganj, Faridpur, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Meherpur, Magura, Chuadanga, Bogra, Joypurhat, Naogaon, Natore, Rajshahi, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Pabna, Sirajganj, Jamalpur, Netrocona, Mymensingh, Sherpur, Comilla, Feni, Laxmipur and Noakhali. BEES has established a sturdy association among and with more than 20 lac people, mostly disadvantaged, deprived of all kinds of human rights as well as vulnerable to HIV-AIDS/STIs & ill health, who are receiving development services from BEES.

Poverty Alleviation Program

BEES started its journey in 1975 in the name of Rural Development Program (RDP). In course of gradual development initiatives in rural Bangladesh, BEES has initiated to execute its integrated Poverty Alleviation Program (PAP) since 1997 with a new dimension and strategic framework.

BEES believes that poverty is not only due to lack of income or employment it is a complex syndrome manifested in a variety of dimensions. Therefore, the main thrust of BEES’ development effort is to promote income or employment generation through different initiatives like micro enterprise lending assistance, micro finance, poultry & livestock, agriculture & social forestry, etc. BEES works for bringing the disadvantaged people under the same umbrella and forming homogeneous groups to facilitate a sustainable change within the society through social as well as economic emancipation.

Under PAP, BEES has linked up health care services and human resource development. Awareness programmes on human rights, legal support, gender equality, women empowerment, etc. received due priority. BEES delivers its development services to the rural and urban poor people. PAP targets those people who own less than or equal to 0.5 acres of land and depend largely on the selling of manual labor for their survival. The PAP has four different programs and under each of these major programs, there are a number of sub-programs. These are as follows:

A. Rural Development Programs

A.1 Institution Building
A.2 Micro-Finance Program
A.3 Agriculture & Social Forestry Program
A.4 Poultry and Livestock Program
A.5 Education Program

B. Health, MCH-FP and Nutrition Programs

B.1 Community Based Health Program
B.2 National Nutrition Program
B.3 Water & Sanitation
B.4 HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
B.5 Nutrition Surveillance Project (NSP)

C. Special Programs
C.1 Social Assistance Program
C.2 Poverty reduction through adoption of advanced technology (PRAAT)
C.3 Women Rights and Gender Equality Program
C.4 Advocacy (Social, Financial and Legal)
C.5 Relief and Rehabilitation
C.6 Small Rural Infrastructure Development
C.7 Sisimpur Outreach Program
C.8 NGO Network/Partnership Program
C.9 Integrated Pilot Program

D. Support Programs

D.1 Training
D.2 Information & Development Communication
D.3 Research, Evaluation and Monitoring