About Us – Human Development Forum

Background :

Human Development Forum (HDF) is a non-political, non-profit and non-government voluntary development organization formed through the initiatives of a few committed and dedicated social workers and philanthropists. Human Development Forum (HDF) was established in 2000 with the aim of promoting human and socio-economic development for underprivileged people living in rural areas.

To achieve this aim, we organize rural people who are living in poverty to improve their livelihood. This organization was initiated by some like-minded development patrons for the upliftment of the socio-economic conditions of rural and urban communities, as well as the dissemination of information on development.

The philosophy of the organization is based on the conviction that the paramount need of men, women and children, both urban and rural, is not relief but release from the prison of poverty. Its main focus is to promote the socio-economic conditions of the underprivileged, destitute, landless and economically poor people, especially women, through organization, education, training, participation and joint activities.

Vision :

Human Development Forum (HDF) dreams of a society where, without any discrimination or division based on sex, caste or color, people will enjoy full dignity and will be able to participate in the mainstream development process for sustainability and empowerment.

Goals :

The goal of Human Development Forum (HDF) is to improve the socio-economic status of disadvantaged people. Its purpose is to promote the socio-economic status of underprivileged men, women and children, both in urban and rural areas, through motivation, people’s organization, non-formal education, training and mobilizing available resources such as manpower, water and soil.

To achieve these aims, Human Development Forum (HDF) focuses on two fundamental, interrelated objectives: alleviation of poverty and empowerment of powerless people.

Missions :

Human Development Forum (HDF) works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and disabilities. Through multifaceted development interventions, Human Development Forum (HDF) strives to bring about positive changes in the quality of life of poor people in its working areas.

HDF aims to make the organization financially and structurally strong by ensuring optimum utilization of public and private resources, as well as mobilizing resources from internal and external sources.

Human Development Forum (HDF) is committed to ensuring people’s participation, developing participatory decision-making processes, and implementing environment-friendly socio-economic development for targeted communities. Improving the quality of work and mobilizing people’s support to achieve these goals are the mission of Human Development Forum (HDF).

Objectives :

To raise awareness on moral and legal rights and undertake adequate arrangements for protecting these rights within the community.
To provide financial and technical support to enhance capacity and create employment opportunities among destitute and landless people.
To ensure the basic rights of poor and vulnerable children, persons with disabilities and lagged sections of the community.
To create an appropriate atmosphere for women’s empowerment through building a better gender relationship and implementing the socio-economic and human rights of women.
To take primary care of the health of rural people and help to build happy families.
To increase the literacy rate of community people.
To ensure employment creation through need-based IGA programs.
To develop water and sanitation facilities in the project area.
To ensure human rights among community people.
To increase social forestry.
To develop a sound environmental situation in the project area.
To establish social justice at the community level.
To reduce poverty among disadvantaged rural and urban people.
To change the socio-economic condition of disadvantaged rural and urban people.
To reduce social crimes such as divorce, acid throwing, early marriage, and torture through increased awareness.
To establish indigenous people’s rights.
Waste management and disposal.
Health and nutrition programs.
Control and detection of fatal diseases.

Core Values:

Human Development Forum (HDF) fosters the following values:

Justice: We are the supporters of justice and are struggling for it.
Honesty and Integrity: We maintain honesty to the principles of the organization and uphold the interests of Human Development Forum (HDF).
Gender Equity: We respect each other and believe that women are human beings too, with equal rights.
Transparency and Accountability: We maintain full transparency and accountability to the people we work for and with whom we work.
Responsiveness: We are responsive to the needs and aspirations of local communities.

Organization Culture :

Cost effectiveness: We are conscious about cost in both personal life and organizational activities.
We believe that cost effectiveness prevents the waste of resources.
Cross communication and line decision: We promote communication across any hierarchy within the organization, but the right and respective person makes the final decision.
Family friendliness: We consider Human Development Forum (HDF) as a family, and everyone concerned with HDF is regarded as a close member of this family.
Mutual respect: We are aware of paying respect to our partners, stakeholders and colleagues.
Culture and environment friendliness: We retain the positive elements of all cultures and strive to keep ecological balance.
Nature critique and learning from others: We are not afraid of constructive criticism from counterparts and we learn from it.

Working Principals :

Unity: This is our pledge to keep unity among us and within the society. This will enable us to do thing at challenging situation.
Team Work: We work in team sprit to serve the community and always try to be a responsible team leader on behalf respective team.
Creativity and Innovation: Creativity is our inherent will and innovation is our difference.
Extent: We are latest, progressive and worldwide in context of thinking and notion, but localized in program operation.
Empowerment: We believe in all form of empowerment of poor, neglected and vulnerable people. We therefore play a catalyst role for their empowerment.
Position: We hold our position in favor of poor and marginalized people and towards their wider interest.
Sense of Responsibility: Carrying out of respective responsibility allocated by the organization is our pledge. This way, we ensure our social liability/ obligation.
Discipline, Participation and Cooperation: Discipline is a door to reach at the goal participation is the process of it and the cooperation expedites our movement. To whom and how the organization is accountable: This organization has an approved constituency to regulate and maintain all sorts of activities. It has a general body, which is mainly responsible to the government as well as the development partner and beneficiaries. There is an executive committee to govern all the activities taken as development initiatives. Executive committee is accountable to the general body. Executive Director is the member secretary of this committee he has to design, implement and handle all the income and expenditure related works.
He is accountable to the executive committee and he has to ensure all the necessary to the target groups for his activities too. On the other hand the EC has 07 members elected from GC. Every 03 (three) years, the general council members elect the EC by direct votes. The EC comprises a chairman, a vice chairman, General Secretary, a treasurer and three other members. The EC is solely responsible for framing policies and guidelines for Human Development Forum (HDF) .