Coastal Development Partnership (CDP) is a not-for-profit, public interest serving progressive development & environmental activist organization, workingin Bangladesh. On January 01, 1997, CDP was instituted as a coordinating secretariat for a network of NGOs trying to relieve the sufferings of the people of the waterlogged areas in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh. Begun as an information exchange and meeting place for advocacy NGOs, gradually CDP become part of the broader environmental movement. CDP has achieved expertise to assist both national & international development process on Climate Change, Food Sovereignty, Sustainable Agriculture, Responsible Aquaculture, Pro-poor Environmental Governance, Biodiversity & Nature Conservation, Women Rights & monitoring International Financial Institutions (ADB, World Bank) and UN negotiations.

CDP works with socially excluded, poor, marginalized indigenous, rural & coastal community and grassroots NGOs/CBOswho are working with the marginalized extreme poor, socially excluded & indigenous communities.CDP also works with the leading academic institutions, and civil society groups to ensure development effectiveness.

Name	Coastal Development Partnership
Legal Status	Registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB), Bangladesh; Registration Number 1749; Renewed up to 2012 (Renewal date July 09, 2009)
Central Coordination Office	Musafir Villa, House No # 53/1&53/2, Flat # B-3, West Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh
Registered & Foundation Office	55/2 Islampur Road, Khulna-9100, Bangladesh
Telephone	+880-2-8181391
Email	cdp@cdpbd.org; masum@cdpbd.org; masumcdp@yahoo.com
Web	www.cdpbd.org
Contact Person	S. Jahangir Hasan Masum, Executive Director

Values:

The values that inspire CDP are: empowerment, mutual respect, equity, justice, peace, honesty & consistency, courage of conviction and solidarity with people’s struggles.

Vision:

Develop a prosperous, environment-friendly and value-based progressive society, innocent of any discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, race or gender, whatsoever.

Mission:

Capacitate the deprived and discriminated indigenous communities, socially excluded extreme poor, people’s organizations, grassroots NGOs and local civil societies to achieve social, economic & climate justice and pro-poor environmental governance.

Goal:

Empower and raise people’s voice for ensuring social peace, human rights, environmental justice and sustained poverty reduction in Bangladesh.

CDP constitution & policies governs the organizational procedures, norms and rules. The CDP Executive Committee (CEC), headed by the Chairman, is the highest governing body of the organization and in charge of formulation of organizational policies, approving strategic direction, monitoring and evaluating Executive Director’s performance. Chairman is the Head of the Organization and Executive Director (ED) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Organization. Executive Director (ED) & Treasurer jointly manage CDP Master Bank Account. Each project/program maintains separate bank accounts in accordance with the Government &Donor partner’s financial and administrative guidelines and joint signatories run all the financial transactions.

CDP nurtures the culture “Working together for doing the right thing, & if needed start thinking outside the box to generate innovations”. In CDP, “doing the right thing” means more than just following laws, policies, and procedures and “working together” means building teams, enhancing creativity, and improving collective decision making. In CDP “working together” for “doing the right thing”, means maintaining the highest standards of ethics and integrity in everything CDP does.CDP follows a people-centered & vision-oriented Rights-based Ecosystem Approach (REA) for programmatic intervention. REA focuses on securing livelihood of the marginalized extreme poor people for without endangering biodiversity & livelihood of the future generations by disrupting the ecosystem resilience. REA integrates four (4) development frameworks (Protection, Prevention, Promotion and Transformation). Each people-centered action of CDP aims at reducing or eliminating threat to climate change risks, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem resilience, thus to the sustainability of natural resource base for both the present and the future generations.

Approach (REA) for programmatic intervention. REAfocuses on securing livelihood of the marginalized extreme poor people for without endangering biodiversity & livelihood of the future generations by disrupting the ecosystem resilience. REA integrates four (4) development frameworks (Protection, Prevention, Promotion and Transformation). Each people-centered action of CDP aims at reducing or eliminating threat to climate change risks, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem resilience, thus to the sustainability of natural resource base for both the present and the future generations.

 

CDP targets renewable natural resource dependent poor and marginalized livelihood groups like marginal farmers, fisher folk, landless farm laborers, indigenous people to enhance their livelihood security, protect them from climate change vulnerabilities, human rights violations.CDP also targets local journalists, grassroots organizers, local NGOs, people representatives and government in order to strengthen eco-friendly socio-economic development and sustainable livelihood of the poor in Bangladesh.

Primary Target groups of the CDP

a) Landless farming communities in the coastal, remote river islands and wetlands areas;

b) Cyclone, tornado, droughts, floods & river bank erosion affected poor communities;

c) Poor women, female-headed households and youth;

d) the water logged (previously wetland) community;

e) Wetland-dependent communities;

f) Poor households with Differently Able Person;

g) Indigenous communities (Both Highland & Plain Land);

Executive Director with the support of Chief Coordination Officer, four Chief Regional Officers and Finance & Administration Manager conducts and maintains the day-to-day organizational matters. CDP Central Coordination Office (CO) in Dhaka performs the executive coordination role, devises the overall strategic direction and priorities, provide policy guidance, oversight resources and monitor operations.To address local development issues with decentralized management approach, CDP has divided the whole country into four regions [(a) Khulna-Barisal Region b) Dhaka-Sylhet Region c) Rajshahi-Rangpur Region and d) Chittagong Hill Tracts-Chittagong Region]. CDP Regional Offices (RO) manage regional operations and provide support to Branch Offices (BO) in their respective regions (including support in development of the program, day-to-day assistance on program implementation, monitoring of program progress, oversight functions, supporting policy dialogue and programmatic cooperation with regional entities). In each region, the designated Chief Regional Officer (CRO) coordinates and facilitates CDP interventions under the supervision of Chief Coordination Officer (CCO).

Total Employees	Gender Representation		Ethnic Representation						Religious Representation
			Bengali			Indigenous
	Men (%)	Women (%)	Men	Women	Total (%)	Men	Women	Total (%)	Muslim (%)	Hindu (%)	Others (%)
36	61.11	38.89	18	12	83.33	4	2	16.67	69.44	13.89	16.67