The organization was established in 1989 through joint initiative of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and local elites with the closer of the former in the area of Teknaf. SHED started its operation since 1989 initially only in the ICDDR,B server area with the status of it’s ancestral organization and gradually under take various development programs of various sectors following the objectives set in the constitution of the organization. The time span of the working period of the organization has been described bellow as a segregation of 5 years interval where different projects are described.
Year | Details |
1989 -1994 | · Registration with the department of Social welfare
· Registration with NGO Affairs Bureau · Registration with Directorate of Family Planning: · Baseline Census and Vital Registration update with ICDDR,B · Community Based Health & Population Development Project funded by DFID through Bangladesh Population & Health Consortium (BPHC) · Reflect Adult Education Project with Aid Bangladesh · Implemented Relief and Rehabilitation(cash disbursement) during cyclone of 1994 supported by OXFAM · Stared Post Cyclone Rehabilitation Credit Project support with Aid Bangladesh at Teknaf and Moheshkhali Upazila. |
1995 – 2000 | · Established Micro Credit Project office at Nila
· Extended Micro Credit Project branch office at Moheshkhali · MOU singed with NGO Forum for water and sanitation project in Teknaf Upazila. · Project stared of People’s Participatory Process for Human and Health Development at Teknaf supported by DASCOH-Swiss Red Cross · MOU singed and approval by MoH & SW for BNIP-NNP · Stared Foreign Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques supported by Action Aid · MOU singed with PROSHIKA on Non formal & cultural education and micro Credit program with extended another Micro Credit Project branch office at Ramu of Cox`sBazar. · Received & approval fund with Helen Keller International for two projects likes National Nutrition Surveillance Project and NGO Gardening and Nutrition. Education and Surveillance Project. · Received & approval fund for Strengthen GO-NGO Collaboration Project by BPHC. · Received fund a partnership program of Food Aided Rehabilitation program for routine maintenance of Coastal Embankment with BWDB financed by FFW. · MOU singed and fund received by Ministry of Education for Post literacy and Continuing Education Human Development Project-1. · Received fund a partnership program of Cyclone preparedness project by CONCERN Bangladesh |
2001 – 2005 | · MOU singed a sub-sect oral project of Established Micro Credit Project office at Nila
· Extended Micro Credit Project branch office at Moheshkhali · MOU singed with NGO Forum for water and sanitation project in Teknaf Upazila. · Project stared of People’s Participatory Process for Human and Health Development at Teknaf supported by DASCOH-Swiss Red Cross. · Fund received and approval fund a partnership project of Coastal greenbelt Project with Department of Coastal Forest. · Established 3 drop out center under STD, HIV/AIDS Prevention program, supported by CARE. · Awareness rising on the risk unprotected & unsafe sex in combating HIV/AIDS project implemented at Teknaf Powrashava supported by UNICEF. · MOU singed with Ministry of Agriculture for Household Food Security through Nutrition Gardening (HFSNG), · MOU singed with Ministry of Fisheries & Livestock for Poultry for Nutrition Project (PFN). · Participation of Adolescents in Nutrition Improvement (PANI) with Save the Children (Australia) |
2006 – to date | · SHOUHARDO & SHOUHARDOII Program with USAID through CARE Bangladesh
· Disaster Risk Reduction Project with CONCERN Worldwide. · Preparedness for Effective Emergency Response (PEER) Project with CONCERN Worldwide. · Inani Protected Forest Area Co-management Project with Arannayk Foundation · Post Literacy Continuing Education and Human Development Project-2 supported by Ministry of Education · Improving Maternal & Child Nutrition Project with World Food Program (WFP) |
It is mentionable that in the course of time the organization has experienced several cyclones in 1991, 1994 and 1997 excluding the minor ones that hampered normal running program activities as well as the infrastructures of the office buildings for which organization normal growth was loosed the usual momentum.