Our Focus Areas
DRDF conducts multidisciplinary research, policy advocacy, and awareness campaigns across four key focus areas to drive sustainable development and inform policy decisions.
Four Pillars of Development
Our work is organized around four interconnected focus areas that address the most pressing challenges facing communities in Bangladesh.
Community Development and Capacity Building
DRDF prioritizes the enhancement of local competencies, leadership structures, and collective understanding, enabling communities to ascertain their needs, capitalize on available prospects, and maintain advancements.
Key Programs:
Livelihood Diversification
Supporting households by expanding livelihood opportunities through linking people to skills, sustainable agricultural practices like aquaculture, off-farm activities and green enterprise support.
Youth Training
Leadership, entrepreneurship and livelihood training for youth, women and marginalized groups. Hands-on, career-focused training including soft skills and entrepreneurship.
Inclusive Programs
Programs designed to ensure empowerment and workplace participation, focusing on strengthening trade unions and promoting labor rights in labor-intensive industries.
Climate Adaptation & DRR Training
Strengthening community resilience through training in climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and Just Transition for vulnerable coastal and rural communities.
University Networking
Building collaboration with universities and district chapters to cultivate socially conscious young leaders for biodiversity conservation, climate diplomacy, and citizen science initiatives.
Education, Research, and Innovation
DRDF advances inclusive education from early childhood to TVET, prioritizing people with disabilities, indigenous groups, and marginalized youth through barrier-free, supportive learning.
Environment, Climate Change, and Biodiversity Conservation
DRDF is dedicated to safeguarding ecosystems and reinforcing climate resilience through community-driven conservation efforts, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction training.
Inclusion and Social Well-being
DRDF advances women's empowerment and gender justice, community health, equity, diversity and inclusion, and provides psychosocial support for vulnerable groups.
Research Hub & Innovation Center
DRDF establishes a research hub and academic journal to share best practices and evidence-based knowledge. It serves as a platform to connect researchers, students, and practitioners sharing resources, mentoring, and knowledge products.
To provide reliable certification services that promote safer ecosystems, improved production techniques, and evidence-based decision-making, DRDF operates a modern laboratory and research center for water quality testing, environmental monitoring, and agriculture/aquaculture analysis.
Modern Laboratory
Water & environmental testing
Global Partners
National & international collaboration
Academic Journal
Evidence-based publications
Innovation Hub
Startups & solutions
Publications Library
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