PEACE Strategy of AID
(People’s Education and Action for Community Empowerment)
AID’s grassroots development facilitation is based on an alternative development strategy, with two interlocking components, known as PEACE – People’s Education and Action for Community Empowerment.
People’s Education
AID facilitates people’s education through participatory methods of learning to enable grassroots people to analyze their socio-economic and environmental situations and design and implement action programmes for sustainable development. In order to promote vocational and technical education for the rural community, AID has established a training centre. AID also facilitates community learning and sharing of knowledge through Community Learning Centers (CLCs) established in six villages, each serving between 5 and 10 nearby villages. Regular training courses in organic agriculture, environment, health, micro-enterprises and other relevant subjects are organized for the field workers and local participants.
Action for Community Empowerment
The main action programmes facilitated by AID includes –
- Promotion of organic farming practices
- Alternative marketing systems for traditional and organic products
- Women empowerment
- PWDs Rehabilitation
- Eco-development and biodiversity conservation
- Research in organic agriculture
- Rural housing and community shelters
- Care of the elderly poor, especially women
- Vocational and technical education
- Alternative health care and nutrition programmes
Target Beneficiaries
• Landless living in other people’s house and distress community:
o Bonded laborer, domestic servants, Informal labour
o Women headed family live on charity from relations.
o Elderly poor, physically handicapped poor and 30 to 50 decimals plot farmers who have no other income source.
o Casual sex worker, vender, peon, guard, rickshaw puller, boatman, transport helper and fishermen folk of remote rural areas.
o Moderate poor, marginalized and small farmers
• Person With Disabilities – PWDs, Beggar
• Floating sex worker
• Orphan, street and working children.
• Slum dwellers, squatter dwellers,
• Seasonal wage laborer, river enrooted people.
• People living at the mercy of other people in village.
• Schedule caste and ethnic minority people live on daily wage earning
AID has been working with a view to reducing poverty targeting the Women & Children of poor & underprivileged section of the society. Special first choice given to PWDS, farmers, Floating Sex Worker, Drug user, Working Children, hazardous labor, Labor of informal sector, Disabled Children Women, Widow, Divorced and People under risk of HIV/AIDS etc.
Action In Development - AID, Jhenaidah is going to observe WNTD on May 31,2010 at 13 upazilas and 6 districts of Khulna division as a part of its ongoing Tobacco control project (BI funded).
