This document provides information about the Oikoumene Development Foundation (ODF), a non-profit organization in Bangladesh. It details the organization's address, leadership, legal status, establishment date, mission, vision, objectives, program areas, staff, and current programs/activities. The ODF was established in 2012 and works in the areas of health, education, livelihoods, and human rights, serving people across religions and backgrounds through partnerships and community development.

1. 01. Name of the Organization : Oikoumene Development Foundation (ODF)
02. Main Address of the Organization : Sujamer Morh, Sabuj Para,
Kurigram Sadar, District: Kurigram, Bangladesh.
03. Contact Person : Mrs. Subrata Roy
Director-Program, ODF
Email: oikoumenedf12@gmail.com
04. Chief-Executive of the Organization : Mian Michael Jahangir
Chairman, ODF
Cell number: 01712-170752 / 01917-043250
Email: oikoumenedf12@gmail.com
05. Legal Status of the Organization : Registered by the Joint Stock Companies, Rajshahi,
Under Societies XXI-Acts-1860;
Reg. No. RAJS/381/2014; Dt. 13/07/2014.
06. Date of Establishment : 06 January, 2012
07. Background of the Organization: “Oikoumene Development Foundation-ODF” a non-governmental, humanitarian,
non-profitable, and human development organization, setup on 06 January 2012 established by some Socially devotes and
committed individuals who have 25 years above working experiences with donor, international and national organizations and
they have acknowledged on to make enlighten human through established this ODF. The entrepreneurs are believed that a
society and culture would be changed if the people have walking on the right path as believes and denominations of themselves.
This will be needed enlighten people in the society and this is why journeyed of the organization start. ODF respects rights and
dignity of children, women, tribal, persons with disabilities and all human beings for all people. All the members of ODF maintain
Child Protection Policy and CP Code of Conduct. It serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender or ability for
salvation through positive change.
08. Our Principles : Serve, Love, Faith, Integrity, Transparency and Discipline.
09. Our Motto : Creating enlighten human for the noble society.
10. Why we are here : Working for Salvation of any forms of all discriminations by serving people.
11. Our Commitment : Committed to build enlighten human for a noble society
12. ODF’s Mandates : To promote, operates child protection related advocacy or direct support to establish child
rights and human rights and carry its humanitarian program through partnership &
networking approaches, with like-minded organizations. To propagate and restore moral
value of the society irrespective of caste, community, creed, color, sex, national and
geographical barriers in Bangladesh.
13. Mission of the Organization:
Mission: To attain acceptable accuracy of standard of life along with enlighten human resource, and socio-economic
development for healthy environment of all corners to the common people and especially deprived children, adolescent,
old-age, disabled peoples including tribal communities of the society.
14. Vision of the Organization:
Vision: Establishing a promising civil society based on equity, justice and equal distribution of resources with healthy
environment as a noble society.
15. Overall Objective:
Main Objective: To undertake, operate and support for promoting enlighten human life, knowledge management,
human rights, socio-economic condition, and environmental development providing appropriate programme for child
protection, humanitarian assistance to affected peoples, create skilled manpower and awareness raising about govt.
acts/policies/ordinance, through training, seminars, and services for human development either facility or community
base through partnership or direct delivery to the common people.
16. Specific Objectives:
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2. i) To establish and operate orphaned children homes, student home/hostels, sisters hostels, old-age men/women
home, special educational institutions of blind/deaf/dumb/other disabled peoples under welfare projects in
different part of the country including provide support/stipends to orphans children, adolescent, visually
impaired, handicap, disables, distressed women & old-age people’s home, and hope center for rehabilitation.
ii) To undertake, and operates child protection related advocacy or direct support programme to
establish child rights and human rights in the society and carry its development program through partnership,
networking approaches, self-help groups among like-minded voluntary organization.
iii) To undertake and publish Newspapers/newsletters, brochures, souvenirs, periodical books to highlight
the news and ideological views of foundation on the aforesaid matters in society and to acquire by purchase or
otherwise lands, buildings, other property, moveable or immoveable, which the organization, for the purpose
thereof may, from time to time, think proper way to acquire for the organizational sustainability.
iv) To operate community managed income-generating program through set-up small cottage industry,
poultry farming, live stock rearing, nursery establish, home-based gardening for livelihoods and fulfills
nutritional demands sustainable nutritional status at households and community people are sufferings by
malnourish around in Bangladesh.
v) To give or assists or provide relief and rehabilitation supports of persons or families affected by any
natural and other calamities such-flood, fire, famine, cyclone, earth-quake, storm, accident, pestilence, drought,
epidemic, un-bearable cost of living and any other like these matters including undertake DRR&M programme
and implementation of Climate Change Agenda related activities elaborately all over Bangladesh.
vi) To establish and operate Schools (Pre-primary, Primary, Non-formal & Formal, Technical and non-
technical), Computer/mobile phone training center, Mother & Child Healthcare Center, Nutrition Center,
Hospital/Clinics, Eye care Center, Library, Study Circle Group, Reading-rooms, Cultural Centers,
mothers/adolescent/youth club, Training Centers, Educational Institution, Community Halls, Vocational Training
Centers, and other educational institutions on modern technical and technological issues for imparting better
development skills and moral teaching to children, youth, women, adolescent and disables people in any part of
Bangladesh
vii) To establish, promote, set-up and operates consultancy firm and research institution as sister
organization for sustainable of the foundation solvency all over in Bangladesh. And to create employment and
earning sources and to start different welfare fund such- children welfare fund, education welfare fund, medical
welfare fund, deposit pension scheme and insurance schemes for the community people.
viii) To give support, grant, scholarship, stipends, rewards, allowances, prizes and other financial and
technical assistance to students are meritorious becoming from ethnic communities, minorities, poorest,
orphans, disables and distressed students in schools, college and other educational institutions.
ix) To establish, promote, set-up, maintain and assist in the missionary works, gospel preaching, church,
institution of Bible teaching college, seminaries and other charitable institution or forum to disseminate, moral
and spiritual ideas among all human in Bangladesh.
x) Undertakes and operates MCH&N programme through maintaining IMCI and IYCF protocols of
Government health department at community and facility level around any part of Bangladesh and to create
awareness of reproductive health, anti-drug movement prevents, Family Planning, MCH&N, WASH,
environmental hygiene, HIV/AIDS/STDs and trafficking, and the foundation shall organize any course of training
on nursing, midwifery, paramedics hiring resource persons.
xi) To propagate and restore moral and spiritual value of religion of the society irrespective of caste,
community, creed, color, sex, national and geographical barriers in Bangladesh. The values of life based on
Christianity the keynote of society, ideology fostering the ideals of love, integrity, justice, truth and discipline in
the society.
xii) To convene, when necessary, conferences, workshops, debates, round table discussion, study circle
and seminars at such times and at such places as may be determined by the Oikoumene Development
Foundation-ODF to disseminate the universal ideas and ideals closely relevant in the society.
17. Strategies of Program Implementation:
i) Partnership development with the local NGOs, CBOs, educational Institutions, Churches, and cultural organizations.
ii) Capacity building to organize training, seminar, and workshop with association leaders, youths, elites.
iii) Forum or Institution building with youths, adolescents, and mothers.
iv) Sufficient training for ODF and Partners staff to make more potentiality to play vital role to the target audiences for
enlighten human resources.
v) Collecting funds from INGOs, UN Organizations & Donors project received, Alliance, Missionaries, Church, Tithes,
Offering, Government funds, and local contributions.
18. Existing program areas included stakeholders of the organization:
District(s
)
Upazila(s)
(sub-district)
Nos.
of
Union
Nos.
of
Ward
Nos. of
Village(s)
/ Para (s)
Nos. of
included stakeholders
Children Adolescent Women Men Total
Kurigram
Sadar
Nageswari
Fulbari
Chilmari
12
36
(new)
72 225 125 1050 150 1550
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3. 19. Composition of organizational staff team with gender:
Permanent Temporary Volunteer Total
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
02 02 02 04 03 05 07 11
20. Information about staff are working with the organization:
Type of Professionals
Nos. of
professionals
Qualification Experiences
Management & Administration
level
02 MSS, MBA & MA 20 years to 25 years
Mid level Staff
(Manager & Supervisor)
04 BBA, BSS & B.Com 05 years to 10 years
Field level (Field Facilitator,
Com. Mobilizer, Volunteer)
12 BA, BSS & HSC 03 years to 08 years
Total- 18 - -
21. On-going Program (s) and Activities:
Sl.
No.
Program Activities Target
Audience
Covered
Beneficiaries
01 Community Based
Health and Nutrition
Services Program
(CBHNSP)
- Community based Satellite Clinic
Operation
- Health education & Counselling
- Identify malnourish and referral link for
management.
Women,
Children &
PLWs
1550 patients
02 Eliminate Early
Marriage
- Survey & listing
- Courtyard session & Counselling on
Reproductive Health
Adolescent Girls
and Parents
125 nos.
03 Family Planning - Survey & listing
- Counselling through HH visits
- Referral
New Couples 32 couples
04 Human Development
Program
- Skills training for Employment (STEP) Youth People 25 nos.
05 Community Managed
Disaster Risk
Reduction (CMDR)
- Awareness Raising among communities
- Family based Risk Reduction planning.
Vulnerable
communities
and families
120 families
06 Fellowship Credit
Program (FCP)
- Savings and Credit with safety-net. Any individual 120 person.
22. Future Programme Operation Plan:
To be expanded to vulnerable districts such- Kurigram, Nilphamari, Panchagarh, Netrokona, Jessore, Khulna, Bagerhat,
Pirojpur, Jhalokati, Patuakhali, Barishal, and Faridpur districts for the following projects/programmes gradually.
a) To operate and implement child labour, child rights, and trafficking prevention project for child protection through
advocacy, training, seminar, counseling and mass campaign along with education and vocational training. Providing
support of health and nutrition services.
b) Priority basis implementation of Mother & Child Health and Nutrition project.
c) Reproductive health for adolescents through training, counseling, and services.
d) Building forum, clubs and groups with youths providing training on human development, ICT, life-skill and
knowledge events for creates enlighten human with high level of morality.
e) Building Mothers club to the community with services on health, nutrition, ANC & PNC, family planning, and referral
including awareness rising.
f) Set up Old-age Home Programme at district and divisional level.
g) Creating awareness on family planning, ensuring birth registration, Immunization, and eliminate of early marriage by
operating campaign, and advocacy.
h) Implement the project on life skill training for PWDs, provide movement devices to the PWDs through listing and
advocacy for mainstreaming at all level.
i) Support through humanitarian/emergency response project for disaster affected people (need based) and Early
recovery/reconstruction activities for increasing copping capacity to the community along with advocacy
programme for DRR mainstreaming at all level
j) To implement sustainable livelihoods development programme considering Climate Change situation.
k) Raising awareness on constitutional rights of The people’s republic of Bangladesh, human rights,
ordinances/regulations of government, preaching Gospel, and provide legal aid to tortured peoples.
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4. l) Provides gift, stipend, scholarships and humanitarian support to the ethnic, minorities, tribal’s, brilliants, and
potential students for their education.
m) Building partnerships with CBOs, small LNGOs, Clubs, Institutions, Cultural organizations, Professional
organization/groups for optimum level of local resources utilization for the enlighten society.
23. Present Source of Funds:
a. Local stakeholders’ and individuals’ contribution & donations;
b. Subscription & offerings from GM & EB Members.
d. Community/Beneficiaries/Stakeholders participation.
24. Membership/Linking/Networking with other Origination:
Sl. Name of Organization of Involved with Status of the Organization
01 Bangladesh Evangelical Church Trust Emergency Response Partner
02 South Asia Fund Raising Group (SAFRG), India Applied
03 Center for Disability and Development Applied
25. Financial Management:
ODF has Bank Accounts (Agrani Bank) with joint signatory that’s operating with the Chairman, Treasurer and the Chief
Executive Officer of the organization.
ODF determining to accomplish the financial statement of the concluding year (January to December) of the
organization an audit report is prepared by engaging a registered Chartered Accounting firm.
26. Strengths & Capacities of ODF:
ODF is launching the programs through Head Office & 05 Branch Office in different area with necessary assets and
fixtures in small scale. It has office houses (Rental), Training centers (Rental), Furniture’s, Equipment’s (official &
programs), General materials, and Stationeries,
It has good Bi-laws, service rules, operational manual, financial manual, training module and program operation related
documents and monitoring tools.
It has numbers of human resources who have track record experience and excellent capacity to manage, operate and
monitoring to the programme effectively.
27. ODF Governance (Board of operations):
It has 02 (Two) tire for decisions making process for smooth operation of the foundation, such-Executive Board
consisting 09 (Nine) members and General Body with 22 members are playing important role to provide suggestions,
decisions and guidance to the operation team.
General Body: ODF is consisting of 22 members are the supreme authority of the organization. This body is call
twice a year in the meeting. Besides, an Executive Board is empowered by the GC and responsible for guiding
decision/policy making and monitors the project activities from time to time.
Executive Board: EB meeting generally is held quarterly to review and project activities. During the meeting work
done is evaluated, problems are threshed out; future policy is charted out for the well functioning of the
project/programme activities.
Board of Advisers: Board of advisers is as follows.
Sl #
Name of Board Member with phone &
E-mail.
Position as a
Board Member
Address
1
Mr. Elish Arun Mozumder
Tel: 88-02-8419171
Cell: 01711-511090,
Email: elish.majumder@tearfund.org
Chief-Adviser
Disaster Management Adviser
TEAR Fund Project
House # 196 (1st
Floor), Lane # 02
DOHS Baridhara,
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
2
Mr. Pius Serao
Tel: 88-02-9357626
Cell: 01715-158102
Email: pius.edlhcb@gmail.com
Honb’le Member
Executive Director
Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh
349 Dilu Road, Moghbazar
Dhaka-1217. Bangladesh
3
Mr. James Biswash
Cell: 01715-405550
Tel: 02-8835114
Email: bjames007bd@yahoo.com
Honb’le Member
National Coordinator
Admin, Finance & Human Resource
Terre des homes Foundation
House no.141, Road no. 04, Block-A
Banani, Dhaka-1213. Bangladesh
4
Md. Abdur Rahman
Cell: 01712-167243
Email: ara.india@dca.dk
Honb’le Member
Project Coordinator
Dan Church Aid (DCA)
House # 83, Road # 23
Apt.- 3A, Gulshan-1.
Dhaka-1212. Bangladesh
5
Mr. Ananda Chowdhury
Mob:01822-697009/01716-261074
Email: razdella@yahoo.com
Honb’le Member
Vice-President
St. Peter Int’l Mission School
1069 East Monipur, Mirpur-2
Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.
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