ISDE

ISDE Bangladesh, the Integrated Social Development Effort, is an organisation entrusted to serve disadvantaged women, hazardous children, coastal fishing communities, persons with disability, migrants, ethnic minorities, sex-workers, transgender (hijra) communities, Rohingya refugees, non-local refugees & climate migrants displaced in southeastern part of Bangladesh. As an organization from the southeastern coastal part of Bangladesh, ISDE always try to focus on the issues of the marginalized and disadvantaged community people of these areas.

ISDE Bangladesh has been implementing a number of activities to respond to the climate change issues of the targeted people and it has integrated the climate change issues with its ongoing programme. It has become an active member of Climate Action Network-South Asia (CANSA), Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods-CSRL and NGO Coordination Council for Climate Change (NC4) networks, Bangladesh Working Group on Ecology and Development (BWGED), Water Move Bangladesh.

Water is a key part of ISDE’s climate programme, with campaigns for access to safe drinking water and sanitation (WATSAN). Access to safe drinking water is a problem for the community people in coastal, hilly and backward project areas that are deprived of government facilities. Most community people cannot afford to install tube wells. The number of existing tube wells cannot meet the community’s needs. With the support of the NGO Forum for Public Health, ISDE Bangladesh uses a cost-sharing mechanism to help beneficiaries install tube and ring wells. ISDE has also established a latrine production center and latrines are sold at the cost of production.