NGF

Basic Informations

We Are NGF

Nowabenki Gonomukhi Foundation is a non-profit, non political and non government social development organization working for improving lives of the poor by support and services including financial access through diverse development programme approach. The organization has been implementing development projects/programme with the effective partnership with Government Departments, Private Sectors, Company Agencies, Local and International NGOs and different Donors in related to sustainable livelihood, women empowerment, gender inclusiveness, different social issues, awareness & advocacy, improving livelihood practices, promotion of agricultural technology including livestock and fisheries, on farm and off farm technology, food security, health nutrition, integrated WASH, youth development and employment creation, climate change and adaptation, access to safe drinking water, social infrastructure, sub-sector wise value chain development and forward & backward market linkage and financial inclusion at different level of services. We believe that sustained poverty alleviation can be achieved only if the poor became involved efficient economic activities. So that our Moto is “Inclusive Empowerment for Sustainable Development” thus becomes imperative. Presently we are working in different parts of the country with an emphasis on south-west coastal region of Bangladesh.

LEGAL IDENTITY:

NGF has registered in the following Govt. Departments/authorities;

SL

  Registration Authority

Registration No.

Issue Date

1

 Department of Cooperative, Government of the peoples’ Republic of  Bangladesh

27

13.09.1988

2

Department of Social Service, Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh

447/2002

26.12.2002

3

Joint Stock Companies and Firms, Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh

102

11.08.2004

4

Micro credit Regulatory Authority

0151900587-00345

29.10.2008

5

NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

2450

02.06.2009

6

PADOR (European Commission)

BD-2010-BRS-0805725275LEF ID

02.06.2009

7

TIN Number

435-400-0647/Co.-2, Khulna

 

8

Vat No

3041058440,

Area Code: 30104

 

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE:

At national level, NGF has direct touch with three districts covering 13 sub-districts. Local competence is the key for sustainable programmes. That is why NGF always works through local people with local authorities. NGF is one of the leading organizations in Bangladesh and intervenes through 35 branches.

District

Upazila/Sub-District

Satkhira

Shyamnagar,  Kaliganj, Debhata, Satkhira Sadar, Assasuni, Tala, and Kolaroa

Khulna

Koyra,  Dumuria

Jessore

Jhikargacha, Sarsa, Monirampur

Total: District-03

Upazila-13

So far, NGF has been covered a significant number of clients through 20 development on-going projects which direct outreach 107,583 beneficiaries among them 96,035 are female.

Address

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

Vision

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

Mission

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.

Objectives

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

Major Activities

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:

Agricultural sector

Health, Education & Nutrition

Climate change & Disaster response

Sustainable energy sector

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Micro Finance

 

Sustainable Agricultural practices, Technology Commercialization, subsector development,

Fisheries subsector,

Livestock subsector and

Off-farm activities

Probin Health Care, Primary health service

Post natal and ante natal services

 

Disaster mitigation

Emergency response

Disaster preparedness

Climate awareness

 

Home solar system

Household solar system,

 

Access to safe drinking water for all, Water Supply through desalination water plant,

Sanitation support, facilities/service provider development and

Hygiene promotion

 

RMC, Buniad, Jagoron, Sufalon, Micro Enterprise,  Ultra poor, Seasonal loan, Housing, Disaster loan, Asset Creation Loan, Rescue Loan

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.

Head Office

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

Project Office

NGF has five project offices;

1. Nowabenki, Shyamnagar, Satkhira, Bangladesh

2. Callbari Bazar, Burugoalini, Shyamnagar, Satkhira

3. Bustandmore, Kaliganj, Satkhira

4. Amtola more, Polash pole, Satkhira Sadr, Satkhira

5. Pikegasa, Dumuria, Khulna

List of Excutive Body

  1. Md. Bodruzzaman Molla, Chairmen
  2. Babu Noni Gopal Raptan, Vice Chairmen
  3. Md. Lutfor Rahman, Executive Director
  4. wasima Nasrin, Member
  5. Pushpo Rani, Member
  6. Md. Anser Uddin, Member
  7. Md. Abul Hosen
  8. Babu Aboni Kumer Mondol, Member
  9. Md. Sobed Ali Par, Member

Chief of NGO

Name: Md. Lutfor Rahman

Designation: Executive Director

Phone & Mobile No. 01711218197 (01709890500)

Staff Strength

Staff category Male Female Total
Management and Supervision 10 2 12
Mid-level 43 7 50
Field Worker 265 122 387
Support Staff 35 15 50
Voluntaries 22 73 95

Infrastructure facilities:

Particulars Total Number
Furniture & Fixture 2075
Office Equipments 737
Land 15.5
Office Building 4
Microbus 1
Computer 51
Photo Copier 2
AC-Air Condition 8
Camera 10
Multimedia Project 3
Conference/Training Room 2
CC Camera 8
Generator 5
Refrigerator 3
Solar Panel 46

Network / Forum

Name of Network / Forum : Credit & Development forum (CDF)

Type : NGO Networking Organization

Website : http://ww.cdfbd.org

Name of Network / Forum : GlobalGiving Online Fund Raising Platform

Type : Crowed Funding Agency

Website : https://www.globalgiving.org/

Micro credit related information Last three years: (If necessary)

Financial year Amount of Savings Loan disbursement (Cumulative) Amount of Total fund (Tk)
2017-2018 166823752 10750147895 1183813806
2016-2017 338612806 9083400895 1877634875
2015-2016 293175512 7716077895 868311910

Project List ( Total Project : 9 )

Project Name : Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of poor Households towards Elimination of their poverty (ENRICH)

Doner : PKSF

Sector : Social & Livelihood

Area : Atulia, Shyamnagar, Satkhira

Time Line : July 2010 to Continue

Brief of activities :

Targeting union based holistic approach, ENRICH ensure the total household development packages including sanitation, health, education, nutrition activities. Farm and off-farm activities including IGA development, ENRICH Household development, Asset creation loan support, Youth development through vocational training, Special Savings, effective coordination & linkages with local government and Social Infrastructure development activities.

 

Project Name : Food Security 2012 Bangladesh Ultra Poor Program (UPP) Ujjibito

Doner : LGED under European Union, & PKSF

Sector : Food & Nutrition

Area : Satkhira, Jessore and Kulna district

Time Line : July 2012 to June 2019

Brief of activities :

Farmer capacity building training on different IGAs, Community Awareness, different day observations, Seed distribution, Plantation, Technical support through field demonstration, Ujjibito House Development, Provide credit support on sustainable IGAs, Youth development through Vocational Training, Health & Nutritional support like mal nutrition child identify and weight measurement, reproductive health care activities. Kishori Club, Adolescent Health Care Facilities etc.

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