Background, Mission, Vision and Goal

Background, Mission, Vision and Goal
Background-
Gono Unnayan Prochesta, meaning Peoples’ Development Efforts (in English), has been working since April
22, 1973. Gono Unnayan Prochest arose from the Quakers’ Peace and sevice’s experience working with
the impacted people in Bangladesh’s rural areas shortly after the country’s great Liberation War in 1971.
Gono Unnayan Prochesta’s earlier initiatives under the Food for Work Programme were limited to road
construction, raising community flood centres, and excavating ponds, indicating a more relief/rehabilitation
strategy. Gono Unnayan Prochesta was founded with the intention of providing development orientation
to relief and rehabilitation initiatives carried out soon after the war, as well as lessening the community’s
reliance on aid.
Other services, such as agriculture with the introduction of new crops such as Soybean, Sugarcane and
Banana, Children’s Health Care (CHC), Adult Functional Education (AFE), Training Programmes, School
Education, Women and Children’s Development, Youth Participation, and Cooperative Programmes have all
been initiated over the years.
Gono Unnayan Prochesta established the Peace Centre in 1982 as part of its development thrust, intending to
promote peace, harmony, and human rights in society. As a result, Gono Unnayan Prochesta’s programmes
gradually grew manifolds, including Water and Sanitation (WASH), Arsenic Mitigation, Disaster Management
and Sustainable Livelihood Programmes for community members, particularly those from underprivileged
and vulnerable backgrounds.
Mission Statement
Gono Unnayan Prochesta aims for sustainable development by ensuring food security, social justice, good
governance, and the rights of disadvantaged, deprived, and disaster-affected communities, particularly for
ultra-poor and destitute females and males, mothers and children, the elderly, physically challenged, beggars,
sex workers, transport workers, marginal farmers, landless people, fishermen, handicraft artisans, ethnic
minorities and transgender (third gender). Gono Unnayan Prochesta is committed to forming samities,
raising awareness, developing skills, promoting Income Generating Activities (IGA) through microfinance
programme and appropriate technologies, providing safe water, environmental sanitation, ecological farming,
mother and child health development, and reproductive health.
Social Vision
Establishment of an environment friendly and exploitation free society where economic prosperity, peace
and social justice prevail.
Organisational Vision
Gono Unnayan Prochesta, which aspires to become an independent organization, is dedicated to achieving
fairness, justice, peace and prosperity by implementing and dedicated to establishing justice, equality, peace
and prosperity through environmentally sustainable and environment friendly development programmes
including health, education, women’s empowerment and economic activities that blend indigenous culture
and traditions with modern technology.
Goal
To improve socio-cultural, economic and environmental security through empowering marginalized groups
in the direction of social justice and peaceful coexistence.