Nowabenki Gonomukhi Foundation (NGF)

Nowabenki, Shyamnagar, Satkhira

Cell: +8801711218197, +8801971218197

E-mail: lutfor.rahman@ngf-bd.org, ngfbd1@yahoo.com,

Website: www.ngf-bd.org

Facebook: Ngf Net

NGF envisions a peaceful, equitable and prosperous Bangladesh where all people can explore their optimum opportunities, potentialities and live with self-reliance, dignity and diversified identity

NGF's mission is to support the vulnerable and excluded people for their sustainable development and improved livelihoods.

Core Values:

The Nowabenki Gonomukhi Foundation Strategic Plan holds us to the highest standards of ethics, integrity, service and fiduciary responsibility. This strategic plan is constructed to advance, uphold, and strengthen our vision, mission and core values. It translates our enduring ideals into tangible outcomes and pragmatic strategies. 

1. Integrity- We work with government, national and international organisations in the aid and development sectors and global private companies. We help our target population succeed in fragile and challenging environments through necessary support including building trust and giving a voice to local people.

2. Participation- We listen to & learn from our community and we address the root causes of community problems and mobilize local resources for the common goals.

3. Equity- We strive for equity and we focus primarily, but not exclusively, on people who are vulnerable.

4. Inclusiveness- We practice and champion inclusiveness in our community. We always acknowledge diverse strengths, needs, voices, and backgrounds of all members of our community.

5. Accountability- We serve as stewards for our community investments and honor the charitable and development intentions of our donors to meet current and future community needs.

The main objectives of NGF are aiming to address diverse people of the coastal areas and assess their capacity, needs and demand and provide financial and technical support and back stopping to the target people/client for strengthening capacity including resilience building, access to finance, climate change, technology transfer, agriculture development, women empowerment, gender mainstreaming, livelihood, food security, water, sanitation, health and hygiene promotion; Specific objectives are;

• To encourage sustainable agriculture practices, business development and value chain development works including nurseries development, fattening, trading, marketing and service market development on different subsector;. 
• To support people on promoting saline tolerant crops, vegetable and diversification and non- agriculture value chain development works participating coastal farmers.
• To enhance farmers capacity on integrated fisheries, agriculture and mixed farming technologies like
  • carp-golda, vegetable-fish etc and homestead farming and services
  • trade based Skill development and job placement for youth and women
  • local resource based entrepreneurship development
  • skill development for the service providers, and business association
• To facilitate and encourage investment for large scale business interventions and enterprises development and back stopping support for their sustainability.
• To sensitizing the local community, capacity building CBOs, ethnic community, mobilizing stakeholders, market actors, engage private sectors, govt. departments and others for easy access to information & services.
• To promote homestead based off farm business enterprises through transfer of technical knowhow, business skills, logistics and raw materials by service providers/marketers.
• To introduce new business model, financial products with services to the poor women, youth and adolescent for promoting women focused economic development, women empowerment, youth entrepreneurship and adolescent development.
• To initiate local level research works for climate adaptive agro business investment, resilient infrastructure and knowledge management
• To facilitate need based skill development training for the community people for developing business ideas, or adopting existing climate adaptive business practices in related to agriculture, fisheries, livestock and off farm business participating climate victims and migrants.
• To promote  new technologies on WASH facilities at the high saline areas by developing community managed WASH infrastructure.
• Introduction of sanitation technology and marketing and enabling business environment for private sector to introduce sanitation technology and marketing
• Community based WASH enterprises models development through
• Capacity building of WASH related service providers aiming to ensure better services for protection and maintenance of existing WASH facilities in the areas.
• To initiate large scale disaster resilient infrastructure development works like;Reconstruction of embankment
• Local & national adaptation plan of actions
• Investment in WASH infrastructure

NGF is commencing its programme to eradicate extreme poverty from the south-west part of Bangladesh. Being a social development organization NGF focuses on health, nutrition, agricultural, livestock, off-farm activity, health sector, climate resilient activity to uplift the livelihood of the target people.

At a Glance Development Programme Forecast:

CROSS-CUTTING INTERVENTIONS:

• ESRB-Environmental and Social Responsible Business: NGF always takes initiatives considering the ESRB issues that create sustainable income and livelihoods opportunities of rural communities.
• Gender equity, inclusiveness and empowerment: NGF facilitates different programme addressing mainstream gender equity, inclusiveness and empowerment.
• DRR-Disaster Risk Reduction: NGF has strong team to execute DRR related hazard and ability to manage natural disaster in the project areas.