What We Are

About Us

Equity based democratic, poverty free, enhances the productivity of agriculture, sustainable society, which respect to human rights, mainstreams gender equality, and ensures social justice through good governance and sustainable development.

To achieve the rights of marginalized, disadvantaged, & vulnerable people particularly women and children from across the society by establishing democratic principles, rule of law and gender justice through good governance and to enhance the productivity of agriculture and animal husbandry.

Background of Manab Unnayan Kendra (MUK)

It was 1995; the Government of Bangladesh and a lot of giant and small-scale NGOs were launching various types of development projects in the country to combat all forms of poverty from human lives as well as the country by using million dollars and other resources. Remarkable positive changes were visible especially in the field of education, health, agriculture, communication and transportation, trade and commerce, and per-capita income raised beyond expectation. The number of Millionaires increased dreadfully and life expenditure started increasing also, leading many politicians, think tankers, and business magnets to feel proud of this advancement. Within these golden moments, some rural, educated, young men evaluated this situation very critically and found that the blessings of the country’s advancement failed to touch the lives of the majority of the rural poor, ethnic minorities, indigenous people, tobacco workers, and women, where human rights violations were a routine part of the existing power structure. Due to partial and unbalanced development mechanisms, the poor became poorer and exploitation appeared vigorously in our economy. To combat this injustice, exploitation, and inhumanity and to establish a model democratic poverty-free society, on July 01, 1995, those young people of Hijuli village under the leadership of Asaduzzaman Selim formed a non-profit, Non-Government organization named MUK, honoring the Bill of Human Rights. Dedicated to serving neglected children, women, youth, ethnic/indigenous people, tobacco workers, the Dalit community, victims of human trafficking, and socially vulnerable people, MUK obtained its legal registration from the Department of Social Welfare, Meherpur on 27.08.1997 and MUK obtained registration from the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) under the Prime Minister’s Office on 25.11.2004 (Registration No: 1985), which has been successfully renewed until 24.11.2029.

As MUK’s activities grew up, the necessity of a central presence in the capital became essential to facilitate regular meetings and coordination with various national and international partners, network members, and government ministries and departments located in Dhaka. Driven by its mission and vision to further broaden its impact, since 2021, MUK has expanded its operational scope by establishing a Liaison Office in Shyamoli, Dhaka, and is currently implementing its development activities across 7 districts of Bangladesh.

Executive Summary

MUK has been treated as envisions of the society, which fosters harmonize with the larger community, culture and nature. To make the vision true, MUK works under five different programmatic outcomes as per its strategic plan 2020-2025. Currently our work traces the lives of over 2 million people across Bangladesh, through intervention in five broad development programs including (i) Governance, Democracy, Political Empowerment & Social Accountability, (ii) Peace & Tolerance, (iii) Woman, Children, Dalit/ Untouched communities and Disable Rights, (iv) Education Program, (v) Gender equality, Transgender Rights and improving the livelihood , and (vi) Agriculture Development & Income Generating Activities (IGA) mark another successful year of performance
MUK is transforming public institutions legitimate and effective. MUK try to ensure and promote universal human dignity by practicing of holistic cultural approach. It gradually adds values not just when these remain diverge, but when they actively are engaged in conflict and whether there is proof of strategies that work, in the long term if not in the short term. MUK facilitates to engage a community, which belongs multiple people with different intra- religion and cultural backgrounds, keeping their own tradition in a given peace process would take into consideration from the outset which contributes towards a pluralistic approach within the community.
MUK’s role is to enhance the agenda for numerous congregations in the community to perform as a lens for decision-making around a process as a first step. Through intervening in an inclusive process, it depends on the context, the main actors like Religious leaders, Teachers, moreover Students as well youth community is included. Building resilience in the peace process is proven to be beneficial for other reasons, such as making governance mechanisms or institutions more effective and responsive, providing capacity, or addressing the concerns and grievances of constituencies that becomes an important bottom of support.
MUK is bringing contextual changes through intervention by popular folk culture in engaging the community and showing ability to resolve existing problems of conflict within the community. Building peace consensus in enabling the community to prevent MUK’s program initiatives for respective age groups and professional groups brings engagement to be a willingness to embrace pluralism’s value proposition: that diversity has approached in a positive way with the interests, values and participation of different groups being respected, it also works to raise awareness about HIV/ AIDS and STD among sex workers and transgender people. It needs to mention here that MUK has added some new practices organizationally such as monitoring the development context in formal way collaboration with SCAN/CBR and use the information on programmatic areas, regular assess of check and balance practices within the organization through using monitoring & evaluation tools, trying to practice ‘Do no harm’ analysis in project planning stage.
For mainstreaming gender in the organization as well as social spheres, MUK’s Gender Forum has been functioning independently for the promotion of women rights within the organization with a separate Gender Plan. Anti-Sexual Harassment Cell is active towards an equitable co-relation among men and women within the organization and society, and In addition to preventing eve-teasing or sexual harassment, various seminars, meetings and trainings are organized in the school college and various campaigns are conducted to raise awareness among the teenagers.

Core Thematic Are of MUK

  • Sensitizing local justice delivery system towards the needs of women.
  • Ensuring the rights of the Dalit/ Untouched community, rehabilitating them, establishing their participation in the mainstream of society and building leadership among them.
  • Ensuing transparency, accountability of the service delivery institutions and social safety net.
  • Bringing all children form grassroots level causes formal education system.
  • Enhance opportunities forfarmers (both man and women), predominantly small and marginal into income generating activities through enhancing the productivity of agriculture (crops, livestock and fisheries). 
  • To eliminate teasing or sexual harassment from society. 
  • Sustainability in all steps of development initiatives.
  • Mass people centered development initiative.
  • Poverty alleviation by local management, local resources and local ideas/indigenous knowledge.
  • People can explore the way of develop make success any project as a group/team.
  • Ensure desired & better life for transgender community and Sex worker by rehabilitation, by education, by medical Support, by providing their basic needs as a human.
  • Child and Women’s Rights Establishment and Advocacy Program.
  • Advocacy for ensuring access of marginalized and underprivileged communities to government services.
  • Formulating and implementing development plans to build a climate-resilient Bangladesh.

Working Area

Sl. No.
District
Upazila
Union
No. of Village
1.MeherpurSadar0565
Gangni0652
Mujibnagar0438
2.ChuadangaSadar0927
Alamdanga0528
3.KushtiaDaulatpur0823
Mirpur0425
4.JhenaidahSadar0642
Kaligong0749
5.MaguraMagura Sadar0532
Mohammadpur0428
6.SatkhiraDehata0923
Shyamnagar0721
7.NarailNarail Sadar0318
Lohagara0513
8.BagerhatFakirhat0521
Mollarhat0518
Sorankhola0616
9.ShirajgonjTarash0987
10.DhakaSouth City CorporationWard: 22 & 5517
Total1020114643

Organogram

Development Partners

Women Affairs Bureau

IDCOL

BNF

CAMPE

DFID

Relief International

ALRD

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