We seek an equitable society free from all discriminations.
Who We Are
What We Do
Where We Work
Vision & Mission
Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) was formed in 1988 with the spontaneous response of flood hazards for the empowerments of poor and underprivileged communities. Through the passage of time, it gradually oriented toward a wider proposition for practicing holistic sustainable development to ensure livelihoods that would be sustainable and resilient. With more than three and a half decades of commitment, ESDO has emerged as a model for underprivileged communities in Bangladesh for sustainable development.
ESDO targets unserved and under-served areas, adopting a participatory and community-led approach that ensures local ownership and opening up enabling environments in its chosen areas of operation. This has enabled the organization to achieve outstanding successes in livelihood improvement, food security, and nutrition, education, women's empowerment, health care, children's rights, youth and adolescent engagement, and ethnic minorities' rights.
ESDO always moved with the tides of changing circumstances and continued to provide timely and appropriate services to the disadvantaged population. Following the development policy of the government, ESDO has now undertaken a wide range of projects and programs, including microfinance, through a community-oriented, people- centered methodology. These are contributing well to national development goals and the SDGs of the United Nations.
From its very humble beginning, ESDO has now emerged as one of the most dynamic organizations in Bangladesh, covering 416 upazilas of 54 districts and reaching out to more than 15 million poor and vulnerable people with its development initiatives.
Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) continuous its mended for the holistic development of rural populations in the areas of livelihood, skill development, health, education, water and sanitation, nutrition, mother and child health care services, kitchen gardening, growth monitoring, immunizations, arsenic mitigation and the developing needs of marginalized people of Bangladesh from its inception 1988. At the same time, ESDO has been continuing microcredit, social development, food security, disaster management, agricultural development, livestock, fisheries, water resources management, hazardous child labor reduction, counter-trafficking intervention, human rights, adult education, child education, skill development activities for ensuring equitable society free from poverty in ESDOs working area.
ESDO managed the mentioned programs in 4032 Unions, 162 Municipality, 418 Upazila under 55 districts & 7 City Corporation, 8 Division of Bangladesh, directly reaching more than 15 million poor and vulnerable people. Different need-based programs are aimed to enhancing the capabilities of deprived people in terms of social development, disaster facing, food security, agriculture, gender, nutrition, microfinance, health, environment, rights and governance, education and human development, and with empowering them to solve the problems that affect their lives and to cooperate to resisting oppression and exploitation. The undertaking of such self-initiated and autonomous actions is an important achievement in a context where the deprived people are dependent for their livelihood and social security.
Our mission is to reduce income and human poverty in our working areas through holistic, integrated development programs suited to the specific needs of the poor and marginalized communities. We adopt a dual approach of service delivery and a rights-based framework, with a focus on income generation, enhanced education, nutrition and health, promotion of human rights, and establishment of good governance practices. Gender equity and environmental protection are integrated into each of our programs as priorities across the board. Guided by the core belief in equity, we engage in active promotion of human rights, dignity, and gender equality that empowers people through social, economic, political, and human capacity building. Women and children remain at the heart of all our initiatives. We believe that through continuous improvement of our organizational capabilities, we can have more quality services. First among these, our commitment is to outreach and support to ultra-poor people—a defined main manifesto and leading mission with determination.
