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Profile Of Taluk Kanu Pur JANA UNNYAN SANGSTHA (JUS)

Organizational Profile

Taluk Kanupur

JANA UNNYAN SANGSTHA (JUS)

Adjacent of Upazila Health Complex, Gobindapur, Gobindagonj, Gaibandha

Communication: + 88 01710 05 4 321, +8801939028378.+88 01726389588

1. Name of Organization: Taluk Kanupur Jano Unnayan Sangstha (JUS)

2. Contact person and Address:

Address:

Taluk Kanupur Jano Unnayan Sangstha (JUS)

Village: Taluk Kanupur

Union: Taluk Kanupur

Upazila: Gobindagonj

Dist: gaibandha

Contact Person:

ADM: Motiar Rahman Khan

Executive Director

(JUS)

Cell: 01710-054321

Email: tkpjusgb2007@gmail.com

3. Background of JUS:

Taluk Kanupur Jano Unnayan Sangstha (JUS) is a non profit, non-religious, non-political

humanitarian, non governmental voluntary development organization established in 2004 with the

initiatives of a few local honest and sincere young from Talukkanupur village of Gobindagonj

Upazila. The organization has been established with an aim to promote the socio-economic status

of the rural poor and the disadvantaged people emphasizing the activities of backward and

downtrodden people specially marginal farmer, extreme poor, divorce and widow mother, children

and old aged people giving priority on awareness rising, skill and knowledge development,

diversification of technologies, rights based activities, environmental adaptation, various IGAs

development etc. The organization also gives importance on health, hygiene & sanitation, relief

and rehabilitation activities to stay closed to the poor and extreme poor people. JUS is a

community driven organization initiated and managed by some local dedicated young people has

been working for the betterment of the people of Gobindagonj upazila with especial attention to

women and children. It realizes capacity building, empowerment and rights, ecological agriculture,

health and environment along with income and employment generation program are inevitable

stipulation for the people’s socio-economic development especially who are poor and poorest and

disadvantaged.

The organization is also being served as an additional force to sustainable development of deprive,

backward, downtrodden, Hard Core Poor (HCP) of the society and assist them to make

economically and socially viable. It’s also carries out various programs such as; women and

children rights and violence against women, health and hygiene through enhance knowledge and

skill to improve their family and social status so that men and women can work together in the

society for sustainable standard of living.

4. Legal Status

Authorized Institution Date No.

Department of Social Welfare 27/12/2007 Gai/Gobi/1244

5. Vission and mission:

Vision:

People of Gaibandha enjoy sound and healthy society in where hopes and prosperity of all

classes are ensured;

Mission:

JUS mission is to ensure respects and dignity of poor and extreme poor group by a clear

advancement in social development framework and economic sphere enabling the target

people in various development programs for their sustainable development. Also the

knowledge and skillful generation are expected that could contribute to the least extent of

Millennium Development Goal. Therefore priority is given to social mobilization,

environmental adaptation regard to climate change, diversification of income generating

options and risk reduction interventions etc.

6. Objective of the Organization:

1. To build community based social awareness and institutions forming various categories of

self help groups giving particular emphasis to women;

2. To strengthen capacity of target people enhancing knowledge and skill through training and

demonstration of various technologies and information;

3. To develop environmental adaptation and resilience in community through utilization of

technologies, home based and social forestation to go into economic advancements and

coping with climate change impacts;

4. To create income and employment opportunities through diversification of livelihood options,

skill and technologies among the target population

5. To ensure sound health of target group improving clear concept of sanitation, nutrition, safe

water supplies and food habit changes;

7. Working Area:

JUS is a small and new voluntary development organization in Gaibandha district has been

working in 35 villages of Gobindagonj and Palshbari upazilas in Gaibandha district. The

organization generally is working both in urban cities and rural areas targeting extreme poor

women.

Specification of working location is given below;

District Upazila Unions

Gaibandha Gobindagon Taluk Kanupur

Gobindagong

Horirumpur

Darbasta

Barisal

Palshbari Palashbari Sadar

Gaibandha sadar Ramchandrapur

Ballamjhar

8. Target People/Beneficiaries

Simple socio-economic survey including baseline information is being measured to select

beneficiaries under the organization. Measuring the key indicators including income, land

ownership and food deficiencies, target people are being categorized like as follows:

- Poor & hardcore poor men and women

- Destitute women, divorced, widow family head women who are helpless

- Poor youth, children & adolescent

- Rug workers and sharecroppers

- Marginal farmer having an optional land

- Ethnic Community

- Agriculture and livelihood labor

- Other project stakeholders

- Community people like local elected bodies, civil society, social leaders and government

officials, service delivery organization/institution etc.

9. Beneficiary Coverage:

Group Category No. Group No. person

Tree Plantation 03 150

Fish culture 06 150

Agriculture 07 145

Forestry 06 535

Micro-finance 30 852

Entrepreneur 04 75

Total: 56 1905

10. Development Strategy

JUS adopts non-directive, bottom up and people’s participatory development approach and

working strategies in implementing its program. It stresses on peoples participation in needs

assessment, decision-making, planning, implementation and leadership for making the

program socially accepted, people oriented and sustainable. JUS’s staff acts as facilitator to

ensure people’s active and conscious participation in development process. Organization works

with the poor people through target group approach.

Firstly, it organizes the distressed and powerless people into homogeneous group for their

development through rapport building, animation, motivation, building awareness and

education.

Secondly, it empowers the powerless through education, training and sharing of experiences,

and thirdly, it facilitates to initiate economic activities by entrepreneurship development for

regular income to alleviate poverty and promoting women’s economic rights and control over

resources through active involvement and participation. It is noted here that JUS always

prioritizes need based program for implementation to alleviate poverty, hunger, literacy, ill

health & civic inertia to enable them for improving their physical quality of life.

11. The Programmes of JUS:

1. Institution and Capacity Building Programme

2. Income and Employment Generation Programme

3. Health, Nutrition and Sanitation Programme

4. Disaster Preparedness and Management Programme

11.1 Institution and Capacity Building Programme

JUS capacity building means to develop skill and knowledge of the group members and

stakeholders. Its help out the target population enabling some thinks to do by own capacities. Its

one of the most prominent programme being implemented to increase skill and capacities of men

and women for 2 years. JUS has been implementing this programme with the involvement of

people from all spheres of society including underprivileged men and women, CBOs to reach

development goal together. This programme includes awareness creation and human resources

development interventions. It also includes group formation, committee and forum building etc.

JUS stressed out the men and women’s equal participation in all implementation processes.

The major interventions are

1. Training to the group members so that they could able to be the resources of community

2. Training to the staff members to implement different activities according to the plan and

the policy of the organization

3. Organizing workshop and seminar ensuring participation of local elite, stakeholder group,

GO and NGO representative to build rapport in local and national level.

4. Arrange exchange visit for different categories of group members and staff members to

exchange views and ideas with others

11.2 Income and Employment Generation Programme:

The organization has been working for creation of self-employment, increasing family income,

social and economic improvement of the poor and hard-core poor with an aim of sustainable

development for livelihoods. This programme needs to ensure family-based self-employment for

unprivileged hard core poor that would be way of poverty reduction. As Bangladesh is an

agricultural country, it may be the fruitful way to ensure food security through developing agro-

based productions by proper utilization of modern science and technology. Also in our region,

there are much income opportunities in individual and group based entrepreneurship development

such as handicraft productions diversification and small business. JUS has initiated both those

agricultural and entrepreneurship development activities for its target group so that the target

group can ensure both food and extra income for getting a sound life.

Major interventions under the programmes:

 Skill development training for development partners especially on poultry rearing, cow

rearing and fish culture.

 Self-employment creation through capital support like rickshaw van purchase;

 Savings generation and small credit support;

 Enterprise and entrepreneurship development;



11.4 Health, Nutrition and Sanitation Programme

In Gaibandha context, there are huge lacking prevailed in health service facilities from GoB and

private sectors. The poorest suffers from want of food of which ultimate results are malnutrition,

night blindness, and anemia. This dismal situation is become burden over the large extent

population of Gaibandha district. Special effects are fallen among pregnant mother, children and

old aged person. They have to take less food that ultimately is resulted a baby with less weight

and growth. JUS has initiated to implement the health programme in the target unions of

Gaibandha Sadar Upazila. Under this programme the organization will organize nutrition session,

health awareness session, and sanitation and hygiene education campaign. The organization also

implement motivation works to encourage community people to install low cost sanitary latrine

and tub-well to ensure sound health and sanitation environment in the working areas of JUS.

Major interventions under the programmes:

• Primary health care training and session for development partners

• Creation of safe water sources for rural community

• Ensure sanitary latrine commodities and hygiene practice

• Collaboration with GOB in health and sanitation programme

11.3 Environment and Climate Change Programme:

Gaibandha district is a riverine and flood prone district situated in the northern part of

Bangladesh. These areas are highly vulnerable to sudden and forceful flooding as well

as erosion and loss of land, which makes living in the remote areas both hazardous

and insecure, climate change have a severe impact on flooding and other natural

disaster to the remote areas. JUS just has started climate change effect mitigation

activities for two years. Environment and management and climate change programme

intervention of JUS is mostly different from others. Its intervention package is not only included in

the awareness raising but also practically involved through various activities that directly replicated

to climate change impacts.;

These are –

 Raising awareness of the community people on climate change impacts and how

to cope with the disasters

 JUS works for home base forestation in its working areas to develop community forestation

according to the climate change intervention policy of the government said in MDG action

plan.

 Cluster forestation on road side tree plantation in collaboration with Union Parishad;

 Cluster and individual forestation in own lands of the organization;

 Installed Biogas plant for best uses of Urban west and other substances to meet the climate

change strategies of government;

 Increase practices of using improved oven which can reduce the CO 2 emission;

 Establish Practice of using biogas for cooking and lights in beneficiaries home to reduce

maximum level of carbon emission;

11.5. Disaster Preparedness and Management Programme

JUS has been implementing disaster preparedness and management programme in the northern

part of Bangladesh particularly in Gaibandha district. This area is always under hit of different

types of disasters like tornado, cyclone, flood and river erosion almost every year. The Teesta,

Brahmhaputra, Jamuna, Dharla, Karotoa and Ghagot rivers are flowing over this district.

Consequently people of this district have to face flood and river erosion most. Moreover, cold

spell, tornado, drought, desertification and monga (seasonal food crisis) are also brings extra

burden to the poorest people. Vulnerability and sufferings are increasing day to day as they do not

have adequate knowledge and preparedness. To reduce the sufferings of affected people JUS has

been implementing disaster preparedness and management programme so that people can easily

face the dismal situation.

Major interventions:

• JUS implement disaster awareness creation activities through organizing monthly

awareness session, weekly meeting discussion among the target women group;

• The organization has developed disaster volunteer team in every union of its working areas

and they have been trained so that they successfully response any disaster events.

• We have been keeping coordination with local government and disaster relief and

rehabilitation committee of Upazila and District;

• JUS encourage target people to produce flood resilient crops and vegetables and provide

trainings to community people as the management of disaster effects.

• JUS continue to respond any kind of disaster even like flood vulnerability, cold wave and

Monga situation organization rescue activities, relief and medical service.

• The organization also has activities of earth rising through Cash for Work for homestead

rising and link road repairing activities.

• We have been providing training to staff, volunteer and development partners on disaster

preparedness and management issue so that the vulnerability and risk of the community

can be reduced.

12. Governance of the Organization:

11.1 General Council:

The General Council (GC) is the highest authorizing body of the organization in any concern. The

committee of JUS is consisting of 33 members involved from various discipline. The committee

member of GC set discussion meeting once a year, sometime in emergency basis. GC is mainly

responsible for policy formulation of the organization. They also analyze organizational budget,

expenditure and have a sincere looks whether the organization are in right truck.

11.2 Executive Committee:

JUS has the Executive Committee (EC), which consisted of 09 members elected by the GC for

every 02 years. The meeting of executive committee held at least twice in a year. Sometime in

emergency basis when need. They are directly involved in implementation process of development

activities and provide necessary instructions to organizational capacities. For almost all cases EC is

accountable to General Committee.

Members of Executive Committee/Governing Board

SL # Name Sex Designation Profession

1. Md. Moniruzzaman Khan Male President Businessman

2. Md. Saiful Islam Male Vice-president Teacher

3. A D M Motiar Rahman Khan Male General Secretary Social Work

4.

Sree Mithun Chakrabartee Male Cashier/Finance

secretary Businessman

5. Ms. Kohinur Begum Female Member Housewife

6. Md. Anisur Rahman Male Member Businessman

7. Md. Rakibuzzaman Khan Male Member Businessman

Staff Resources

Type of staff Male Female Total

Executive Director 01 -- 01

Assistant Director 01 -- 01

Managerial 02 01 03

Regular Staff 03 04 07

Total 7 5 12

Volunteers 17 14 31

Total 22 19 33

Logistics and Facilities

Training Facilities and Equipment

Facilities Number/Quantity

Skilled Trainer 02

Office Space 05

Training venue (01 in Head Office and 01 in Field

Office) 02

Accommodation Capacity: 35 participants 07

VIPP Board 04

White Board 02

Own Land (08 decimal) 01

Fan 12

Computer & Printer Set 02

Motorcycle 02

Bi-Cycle 06

Digital Camera 03

Sewing Machine 05

Handloom 16

Display Board 05

Steel Almirah 05

File Cabinet 10

Rack 12

Secretariat Table 06

Table 10

Computer table 02

Television 03

Chair 80

Fridge 01

Photocopier 01

13. Present Office address:

Head Office

Adjacent of Upazila Health Complex

Gobindapur, Gobindagonj

Gaibandha

Cell Phone: + 88 01710 05 4 321, +88001939028378+8801726389588

Branch Office

Taluk Kanupur

Gobindagonj, Gaibandha

Cell Phone: + 88 01710 05 4 321, +88001939028378. +8801726389588

14. On Going Programmes and Projects of JUS:

Taluk Kanupur Jana Unnayan Sangstha (JUS) has been working by dividing into 05 Programs;

these are includes Empowerment and Rights Program (ERP), Capacity Building Program (CBP),

Income and Employment Generating Program (IEGP), Ecological Agriculture Program (EAP) and

Health and Environment Program (HEP).

Name of Activities Major Focus Financed by

Social Forestry and plantation Massive tree plantation for ecological

environment Own

Swing and stitching for the

poor women Capacity building and self sufficiency Own

Qualitative development of

Agriculture related works

project

Development of agriculture related works

under Ecological Agriculture Program

(EAP)

RDA, Bogra

Water supply for home and

cultivable lands project

Development of households and

agriculture related works under Ecological

Agriculture Program (EAP)

RDA, Bogra

Cow fattening Project Income generation through fattening cow RDA, Bogra

Bio-gas Plant

An unique project under Health and

Environment Program (HEP) for rural level

power, natural fertilizers, waste

management, employment generation

RDA, Bogra

Food Processing Project

An initiative to collect food and after

processing that has been sold under

Income and Generation Program

RDA, Bogra

Fish culture and fishery Employment generation enhancement Own

Rickshaw/Van Project Employment generation enhancement Own

Anti-drug initiatives for drug Social awareness and rights Own

free society

Prevention of Dowry Social awareness and rights Own

Assistance for the destitute Capacity building and self sufficiency Own

Information and Services

Center Income generation and capacity building Own

15. Values & Norms:

JUS comply with some specific values & norms within the organization and program as well. It

always kept in mind to maintain the following values and norms:

- Respect to people

- Human has the potentiality

- Action with peace and harmony

- Accountability & transparency and integrity at all level

- Non Patriarchal/non-partisan behavior at all level

- Openness to progressive thoughts & innovativeness

- Faith in self-sufficiency and environmental soundness

- Equity, equality and discipline in every sphere

- Belief in independence of Bangladesh

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Profile Of Taluk Kanu Pur JANA UNNYAN SANGSTHA (JUS)

Organizational Profile Taluk Kanupur JANA UNNYAN SANGSTHA (JUS) Adjacent of Upazila Health Complex, Gobindapur, Gobindagonj, Gaibandh...