Shaheb Bari Road, Moheswarpasha, Khulna-9203

Tel: 041-730108 ,8114847 , 8118528 , 8114438 (Dhaka),,,, Fax:

Email: ppn_mj@khulna.bangla.net, ho@prodipan-bd.org; info@prodipan-bd.org, Web: N/A

Prodipan was initiated in 1983 in the southern and southwestern region of Bangladesh to improve the socio-economic conditions of the poor and disadvantaged people and build up equity based social structure. As a non-governmental organization, Prodipan conducts multi-lateral programs addressing a large community both in urban and rural areas of different districts of Bangladesh . Prodipan is duly registered with the Social Service Department and NGO Affairs Bureau of Bangladesh Government.

1.Access to Sundarban resources without any form of exploitation by Forest Department & others related department 2.Improved access to services (public & private) like health, education, social safety net, micro credit and water sanitation 3.To initiate for drafting a pro-poor policy in consultation with different stakeholders for enactment 4.Creating alternative livelihood options for 500 poor Sundarban professional families to reduce pressure on Sundarban harvest.

1.Initiatives are taken to strengthen Upazila, District and division levels of organizations (7 Upazilas, 2 district and 1 division level organizations) of the Sundarban professionals 2.Sundarban authority is in the process of friendly negotiations with professional organizations to ensure their rights 3.Poor professionals gained access to at least 30% of Sundarban resources 4.An additional number of 1000 poor professional families has gained access to health, education, social safety net, micro credit and water sanitation services through efforts of the project during project period 5.Draft of a people’s consultation based climate change adaptive Policy Paper favoring rights of poor professionals on harvestable resources of Sundarban is prepared. 6.Five hundred families are in climate change risk free alternative livelihoods independent of Sundarban resources.