Welcome

Shushilan

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Presented by:

Mostafa Nuruzzaman

Chief Executive, Shushilan

Shushilan a Bengali Name Means Good Practices. A Group of Enlightened Committed and Enthusiastic Youth

Established Shushilan in 1991

Human Potential is Infinite. The point is to Explore its

Multi-dimensional Manifestations and Harness

it to Promote Human Welfare

1. Shushilan learn from people
2. Shushilan Believes in Equality Irrespective of Race, Religion, Caste, Creed, Gender and Age
3. Shushilan Upholds the Family Values
4. Shushilan believes in participation
5. Quality services is our commitment
6. We work for backward, vulnerable and poor people
7. Shushilan is very flexible and innovative
8. Shushilan always maintain democratic practice at all level
9. We always behind all people in distress especially those vulnerable to disasters and climate change
10. Shushilan respect environment

A congenial society for economic and socio-cultural development and everyone enjoys dignity and respect

Create opportunities and enable society to assist people living in poverty to achieve significant and lasting improvements in their lives through long term development, resilience building, emergency response, advocacy and institutional capacity development.

• Focus on programmatic approach, strengthen and expand collective action and learning;
• Raise our profile by communicating with more diversified partners, enhancing visibility and branding the organization;
• Grow and strengthen funding base for secure grtant and consider traditional paths of fund raising;
• Undertake institutional capacity development and strategic approach for localization;
• Mainstream the microfinance program and develop capacity for organizational viability.

• Participatory
• Democratic

• Gender and Equity
• SRHR & HIV/AIDS
• Transparency & Accountability
• Sustainability
• Value for Money

• Grassroots democratization approach
• Right Based Approach
• Empowering Approach
• Networking, Partnership, localization and advocacy Approach
• Indigenous Knowledge Based Development
• Sustainable Development Approach

A P P R O A C H E S

Climate Change Induced Affected Communities

Disaster Induced Affected Communities

Distressed Women (Divorced, Widow, Shrimp Fries Collectors, Derelict Women, Women Headed Family)

Marginal And Landless Farmers

Honey Collector, Wood Collector, Fishing Communities (Shundarbans Dependent)

Untouched Community

Youth Society And Teenagers

Women And Children

Research Institute And Universities

Locally Elected Legislative Body, Club, NGOs

Different Sectors Of Government of Bangladesh (GoB)

Donor Agencies

Local Government

IUCN

ECOSOC

Engage Men and Boys Network

CSO Alliance

ADAB

Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB)

Menstrual Health Management (MHM)

CDF

NGO Forum

BSAF

Shifting the Power

CAMPE

Clusters:

• Food Cluster (WFP and FAO)
• Nutrition Cluster (GOB)
• WASH Cluster (UNICEF and DPHE)
• Shelter Cluster
• Education Cluster
• Health Cluster

Asia-Pacific Water Forum (APWF)

SUN

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OYTIJYYA (NGO networks for coastal water right)

WOMEN NETWOR

• UP Member Network
• Women Shalish (Mediation) Network
• Shukannya

SCORE (Governance network for NGOs)

OYKOTAN (CLUB /CBOs NETWORK)

Shushamaj: (Citizen’s Forum)-Ward, Union, Upazilla and District Committees

Shuvoshakti: (Youth Organization)- Ward, Union and Upazila Committees

Shuvoshakal: (Poor People Org.)- Group, Union and Upazila Committee

Shadhikar: (Women organization)- Women Member Network Union and Upazila Committee

Shushamoy: (Farmer's organization)–Village, Ward and Union Committee

Swaunnayan: (WATSAN development org)- Cluster, Ward, Union, Upazilla and District Committee

Shudin: (Climate Change & Adaptation)

CIG (Citizen in Governance): Ensure Peoples Participation in Local Government

Along with those, many other different peoples organization form under different projects

RESEARCH ISTITUTE

IRRI [International Rice Research Institute]

BRRI [Bangladesh Rice Research Institute]

BARI [Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute]

BINA [Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture]

BFRI [Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute]

SRDI [Soil Resource Development Institute]

UNIVERSITIES

KU [Khulna University]

DU [Dhaka University]

CU [Chittagong University]

BAU [Bangladesh Agricultural University]

TOTAL STAFFS STATUS (Till June 2026)

CATEGORIES OF THE STAFFS BASED ON THEIR SKILLNESS

• Cell/units Of Shushilan
• Human Resources Cell

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• Finance Cell

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• Business Development, Research & Advocacy Cell

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• Environmental & Social Safeguard Cell

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• Gender Cell

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• Internal Audit Cell

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• Risk Reduction & Humanitarian Response unit

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• Procurement, Logistics & Admin Cell

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• Information, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Cell

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• Training Cell

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• Savings & Credit program Unit

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1. Cultural Practice and Development Policy
2. Anti-Fraud and Whistleblower Policy
3. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Policy
4. Human Resource Management and Development Policy
5. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Policy
6. Information Disclosure Policy
7. Resettlement Management Policy
8. Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Response policy
9. Emergency Logistics Manual  policy
10. Financial Management Policy
11. Cash Management Policy
12. Anti money laundering Policy      
13. Environmental and Social Safeguard Policy
14. Emergency Procurement (food & non food) and supply policy  

15. Gender Policy

16. Health Safety Policy

17. Non Food Policy 

18. Admin Policy

19. Fundraising Policy

20. Internal Audit Policy

21. Child Protection Policy

22. Complaint Management Policy

23. Digital Technology Policy

24. Code of Conduct

OTHER POLICIES

• Adaptation Strategic on Climate Change Vulnerabilities at Grass Root Level
• Staff Provident fund and Gratuity
• People’s Organization - Swauddog (Shushamaj, Shadhikar, Shuvoshakal and Shushamoy)
• Advocacy
• Human Rights and Good Governance

GUIDELINES

• Gender
• Human Resource
• Financial Management
• Safety and Security
• Recruitment

• World Food Program (WFP)
• FHI360
• Social Marketing Company (SMC)
• VSO
• Australian Aid
• ACF
• IRC
• Ministry of Commerce
• World Vision

• Department of Public Health and Engineering (LGED)
• Human Concern International
• Bangladesh Bank
• UNDP
• Unicef
• Bangladesh NGO Foundation
• BRAC

OUR RUNNING SUPPOTERS : 15

• Landesa
• FAO
• Oxfam
• Govt. of Bangladesh, BNFPE
• Manitese 76-Italy
• Ministry of Environment and Forest
• Ministry of Labor and Employment
• NGO Forum
• Ministry of Primary and Mass Education NGO Foundation
• Paultensen Stiching the Netherlands
• Ministry of Primary Health Care and The World Bank
• Pear Japan
• Ministry of Women and Children Affairs
• Planning Commission
• SIPPO, Switzerland
• PETRRA-IRRI
• CAB International
• Unicef
• DU, BAU
• EEP/shiree-Ukaid-SDC
• Water Aid Bangladesh
• Engender Health Bangladesh
• Practical Action

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• Proshika
• SRDI-Ministry of Agriculture
• Stromme Memorable Foundation
• Training and Technology Transfer
• Stichting Overall
• TetraTech ARD
• UNFPA
• University Grant Commission VSO
• Uttaran
• WHO
• UNOPS
• WinRock International
• BBC Media Action, Bangladesh
• Save the Children International
• Bangladesh Freedom Foundation
• brac
• CSISA-SRSPDS,B
• BRRI
• USAID-PRICE
• HYSAWA
• Coal Power Generation Bangladesh LTD.
• Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BRFI)

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• BFF
• Canadian High Commission
• ACDI- VOCA
• CARE-Bangladesh
• DAE
• BBL
• CDF
• Aid Comilla
• BDPC
• ASIRP-BARC
• Arannayk Foundation
• British High Commission
• CGIAR
• APHD-Hong Kong
• Habitat International
• Janata Bank
• Royal Danish Embassy
• ADB
• ILO
• IUCN
• Christian Aid Bangladesh
• Embassy of the kingdom of Netherland (EKN)

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• Japan Embassy
• DANIDA
• Department of Women Affairs (DWA)
• FHI- BA
• Department of Fisheries (DoF)
• Habitat for Humanity International
• Development Initiatives
• D.Net
• International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• IVS
• Local Government Support Unit (LGSU)
• LGED-RIIP-GTZ
• Grameen Phone Limited
• Aquafish & BAURES
• KNCF
• SDC-Helvetas
• Concern WorldWide
• RDA
• Penny Appeal, Canada

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OUR TOTAL SUPPOTERS : 156

Shushilan Started Implementing projects Since December 1993

Total Received Projects Since 1993 -------------------------- 474

Completed Projects till May 2026 ------------------------ 453

Ongoing Projects Till Now------------------------------------ 21

2023-2024: 102,65,89,856

2024-2025: 131,21,34,548

2025-2026: 114,50,26,128

2025-2026: 167,32,23,694

Experienced to work

Program at a glance

• Socio-economic Development
• Education, ICT, Health & Nutrition
• Climate Change, Disaster, Humanitarian Response and Environmental Resource Management
• Human Rights, Good Governance and Advocacy
• Sustainable People’s Organization, Partnership for Networking and Capacity Building

Socio-economic development

• Group Savings and Credit Management:
• Group savings
• Small scale loan activities
• Housing loan activites
• Rural entrepreneurship development
• Market linkage development
• Agro-based business development
• Economic development of hard core poor

Socio-economic development

• Livelihood development
• Create working opportunity
• Food for work/Cash for work/VGD
• Resettlement
• Women empowerment
• Access to food

Socio-economic development (cont.)

• Started Implementation since 2007 at Teknaf Cox’s Bazar with SRDI, DAE on Food Security & Soil Fertility Program. Started the Rohyinga response operation since September 2017
• Partnership with GIZ, WFP, FAO, SDC, DPHE, Human Concern Internation amongst both for Rohyinga and host communities. Reaching 33 camps and all unions of Cox’s Bazar.

Existing Staff-Volunteer Information in Cox’s Bazar

Number of Offices in Cox’s Bazar: 12 including 6 inside the camps.

No. of Completed Project on Rohyinga Response : 65

No. of Running Project on Rohyinga Response & Host Community Development : 10

• Psychosocial support
• protection;
• emergency support with psychosocial support;
• site development;
• DRR & environmental resources management;
• food security;
• livelihood;
• education;
• youth mobilization;
• WASH;
• health & nutrition and
• Business & Market promotion

Major intervention areas of Shushilan in Cox’s Bazar are:

Climate Change, Disaster, Humanitarian Response and Environmental Resource Management

• Soil Resources:
• Technology Transfer
• Agricultural Services Center
• Plant Clinic
• Farmer’s Field day

Climate Change, Disaster, Humanitarian Response and Environmental Resource Management

• Water Resources:
• Surface water
• Sweet/fresh water
• Saline water
• Community based water management
• Wetland
• Eco-demo farm
• Infra-structure of Eco-demo farm
• Demonstrations of Eco-demo farm
• Research

Climate Change, Disaster, Humanitarian Response and Environmental Resource Management

• Forest Resources
• Nursery
• Medicinal Plant
• Afforestation at roadside, river bank and char land
• Apiculture/Bee keeping
• Animal Resources
• Beef fattening
• Goat and pig rearing
• Poultry and pigeon rearing
• Rat management

Climate Change, Disaster, Humanitarian Response and Environmental Resource Management

• Disaster Management
• Humanitarian Crisis at National Level
• Flood
• Cyclone
• Waterlogging
• Salinity
• Disaster Preparedness Activities (pre disaster)
• CRA/CRVA/LLP
• Capacity Building of Disaster Management Committees (DMCs)
• Awareness on Disaster by Picture Drama
• Infrastructure Development
• Disaster Resilience IGA
• Preparation of Contingency Plan

Climate Change, Disaster, Humanitarian Response and Environmental Resource Management

• Disaster Preparedness Activities (post disaster)
• Relief and Nutrition distribution
• Rehabilitation
• Infrastructure development
• Climate Change
• Adaptation
• Livelihood change with coping climate change
• Infrastructure development with coping climate change
• Mitigation
• Nursery
• Green energy/Bandhu Chula
• Planning for the faces of Organization development and change situation

Climate Change, Disaster, Humanitarian Response and Environmental Resource Management

Education, ICT, Health & Nutrition

• Education:
• Formal Education
• Non-formal Education
• Food for education
• Education for Child labor
• Education Skill

Education, ICT, Health & Nutrition

• Information and Communication Technology (ICT):
• Promotion of ICT
• Capacity building on ICT
• Entrepreneurship development on ICT

Education, ICT, Health & Nutrition

• Health Activities:
• Maternal health
• Primary health care
• Reproductive health (safe MR)
• Promoting family planning
• Child health
• HIV/AIDS
• Drugs
• WaSH
• Strengthening Community Clinic

Education, ICT, Health & Nutrition

Nutrition

• Maternal Nutrition:
• Protection from Anemia
• Improve Maternal Nutrition
• Child Nutrition:
• Improve Child Nutrition
• Hospital Nutrition Corner
• CMAM (SAM, MAM, PLW etc.

Education, ICT, Health & Nutrition

Human Rights, Good Governance and Advocacy

Human Rights, Good Governance and Advocacy

• Strengthening democratic institute:
• Develop women network with local government
• Strengthening of democratic practices at grassroot level
• Networking with local NGOs
• Strengthening of Union Parishad:
• Strengthening of standing committee
• Open budget declaration
• Enhance tax collection
• Activate village court and arbitration council

Good Governance

Human Rights, Good Governance and Advocacy

• Access to social justice:
• Shalish
• Court case support

Good Governance

Human Rights

• Women and Child Trafficking
• Advocacy and Lobbing
• Khash land movement
• Ahmedia’s religious rights movement
• Munda adivashi’s right movement
• Advocacy on water logging and fresh drinking water

Sustainable People’s Organization, Partnership for Networking and Capacity Building

Sustainable People’s Organization, Partnership for Networking and Capacity Building

• Poor and Vulnerable:
• Group formation
• Ward, Union, Upazila and District committee formation
• Farmer group
• Civil society:
• Ward committee
• Union committee
• Upazila committee
• District committee
• WatSan management committee
• CBO development

A. Capacity building of development partner

• Training
• Human development
• Skill development
• Exposure visit
• Mass awareness

B. Organizational capacity building

• Staff training
• Develop policy and guideline
• Organizational evaluation
• Own cultural practices
• Publication
• Resources center development
• Staff appraisal
• Research
• Cell development
• economic development of organization

Sustainable People’s Organization, Partnership for Networking and Capacity Building

• Joy Hok Shushilan
• Annual Picnic

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• Bengali New Year Celebration

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• Staff Gathering / Shushilan Day

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• Shushilan Song

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• Protipaddyo (Theme of the Year)

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• Oath for New Staffs

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• Ceremony of Welcoming Examination

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• Ceremony of New Staffs Joining

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• Inauguration of New Office

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• Different Day Observation

• Women & child Tracking : Satkhira perspective

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• In quest of Sustainability

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• Case & Salish handbook

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• COVID 19 guideline

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• Vegetable Gardening guidebook

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• Landless settlement & Movement : Satkhira perspective

• Human Rights Movement & Perspective: South-west coastal region

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• Peoples’ Union Parishad Peoples’ Budget

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• Standing committee of UP & peoples’ participation

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• Savings & Loan book of Shushamoy Group

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• Baghrotot
• Daily Law Guidebook

Internal Control

Union , Upazila & District level coordination meeting

Annually conference (Shushilan Day)

12 July 2026 to 11 July 2029

Every year Shushilan fixed up a theme. Every staff will try to contribute his/her best performance in respect of this theme

• 2006: Organizational Development through Ownership disbursement.
• 2007: Union Parishad will be the center of local development .
• 2008-09: Mutual Learning Based Sustainable Organization Development & Disaster Management.
• 2009-10: People's participation and adaptation are essential for reducing climate change vulnerabilities.
• 2010-11: Food Security and Expansion of Coastal agro technologies.
• 2011-12: Save Sunder bans Save Lives.
• 2012-13: Ensure Nutrition and a Healthy Life for Mothers and Children.
• 2013-14 : Reduce Poverty through Ensuring Integrated Water Management and Hygiene Practices.
• 2014-15 : Contribute to Sustainable Development through Value Chain Approach.
• 2015-16 : Contribute to reduce poverty through use & promotion of ICT.
• 2016-17: Ensure Green Climate through equal participation of women and men.
• 2017-2018: Ensure youth participation to contribute sustainable development
• 2018-2019: Providing humanitarian assistance and working for the development of our country
• 2019-2020: Increase environment friendly production, consume safe food
• 2020-2021:Mujib 100 Years: Prevent Corona through Hygiene Practices and contribute to build humanitarian society.
• 2021-2022: Contribute to rebuild the society with new perception, through strengthening institutional capacity
• 2022-23 Contribute to national development by enhancing the capacity of organization and its partners
• 2023-24 Contribute to build smart Bangladesh by developing skilled human resources
• 2024-25 Capacitate volunteers to contribute effective humanitarian response
• 2025-26 Ensure Climate-Resilient Livelihoods to Contribute Sustainable Development

• Reached to more than 80,00,000 peoples covering 64 districts and able to brought a positive transformation in their life.
• Provide emergency support (during and post disaster period) to around 7.50000 people in four major disasters particularly SIDR, AILA, Mahasen and water logging in the coastal areas of Bangladesh focusing relief and rehabilitation.
• Capacity building of LGIs of about 1300 union parishad and pourashaova.
• Shushilan has started the Rohingya response operation since September 2017. Now Shushilan covering around 40000 Rohingya community and host community in food security and livelihood, nutrition, DRR, WaSH, environment, youth mobilization, education, market/business promotion, psycho social well being, women empowerment and so on.
• More than 7000 (covering 1400 farmers field school) grass roots peoples organization are capable of playing active role in community development through capacity building and ownership.

• Created greater awareness among the community people on DRR, CCA, SRHR, human rights, good governance and other social issues
• Contributed to graduate at least 2m hard core poor.
• To increase school enrolment rates and elimination of gender disparity in education Shushilan able to reach to around 0.1m school going children by distributing protein fortified biscuit and school meal at poverty prone areas of Bangladesh.
• Work to reduce the sufferings and to get compensation properly of the resettlement victims community people.
• Cash distribution for IGA implementation valued 151770000
• Shushilan contributed for women empowerment More than 15 lac accumulated as savings and this fund also redistribute among the members.

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