Thematic Area

Program principle/thematic area:

1. Integrated Approach: Addressing community needs through implementation of Integrated Community Development program. Dipti Foundation (DF) hopes that community groups (Somity) will act as Transforming Change Agents in their communities by initiating and continuing the development effort.
2. Awareness: The awareness Issues have been discussed in the community group on Good Governance, Land Rights for Landless People’s Women & Child Trafficking Issues, Child Marriage & Dowry Prevention, Human Women & Child Rights, and vulnerable Group Development.
3. Economic development: Community groups will be started with self-help groups and a micro-credit approach for their economic development. DF will build their capacity on leadership, and account management to keep all savings and IGA accounts. As an integrated income generation project for slum dwellers and urban poor particularly women of Dhaka City, to bring the poor especially the women in the mainstream of the development and create wide employment opportunities with special emphasis on income generating activities through providing credit and encouraging savings.
4. WASH: DF has planned to take the appropriate program on safe water supply, sanitation system, and hygienic practice to ensure 100% sanitation in the program area on availability of fund
5. Child Rights and Protection program: DF has planned to start a Child Sponsorship Program for the Orphan, Semi Orphan, and Street children in the national building by providing care, support, and protection through safe home /shelter, food, and education.
6. Vocational skill training program: The Organization has planned to help the unemployed youth (Male & Female) to build their capacity through vocational skill training to involve them with any IGA or job creation activities in their native community.
7. Disaster Management, Climate Change Adaptation and Humanitarian Response: The Organization has mended to play a humanitarian role due to any natural calamity on the availability of funds. To save the environment of our country; the organization has planned to work on DRR&CCA as a cross-cutting issue of every projects
8. Women Empowerment: DF has been very much concerned about the empowerment of women. DF strongly believes that economic emancipation of the women can make them empowered which may also help to establish their social status. Keeping this reality in mind, DF has been working with most of the urban and rural poor women.
9. Participation: People’s participation is a very crucial part of program operation as it creates ownership among them which is essential to make the program sustainable. DF tries to involve project participants at all stages of the project circle for long-term sustainability.
10. Poverty Reduction: Poverty reduction is one of the major thematic areas of DF’s program operations and a loan share of the fund is utilized in micro-credit programs towards poverty alleviation by generating income and improving the living standard of the target people.
11. Promoting the inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: The Governance, inclusion of Persons with Disabilities and Human Rights are correlated. DF has been working in this field to promote human rights, inclusion of Persons with Disabilities and good governance by raising awareness among the marginalized and minority people and strengthening the legislative system of the country through bridging the gap between civil society and legislative organ. Promoting the inclusion of disability issues in all areas of development.

Advocacy and Networking: Under this thematic area, DF always tries its best to advocate the issues of public interest influencing policy makers/stakeholders through lobbying, seminars, workshops, forming alliances and networking at local, regional and national levels.