Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB)

“Journey towards Just and Caring Society”.

Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), a leading national level development organization emerged in 1973 to complete the relief and rehabilitation work of Bangladesh Ecumenical Relief and Rehabilitation Services (BERRS). Until 1975, CCDB was mainly involved in relief and rehabilitation programs. During the late 1980s, CCDB shifted its strategic focus to Poverty Reduction, and Formal & Non-Formal Education. In 1990, CCDB introduced the People Managed Savings and Credit Program, Community Based Health Care Development and Community Based Disaster Management Programs. As a learning organization, CCDB has gone through several strategic and organizational changes during its journey to cater the dire needs of the poor and marginalized people, and at the same time, undertaken numerous initiatives for their empowerment. Over the last few decades, CCDB developed hundreds and thousands of magnificent women leaders at the community level. Their active participation has been the fundamental principle, where value-based concepts, processes and practices are emphasized. CCDB has been practicing a development model called the “People-Centered Development Approach” by putting the people at the centre of development to make their lives and livelihood sustainable. The learning from each phase has helped the organization to develop the next phase of the programmatic approach and the whole experience had been learning by doing the major successes of the organization include the establishment of people’s organization with the destitute people, poverty reduction among the extremely poor households, creating self-employment opportunities for rural women, enhanced access to financial resources, promoting women leadership, building climate resilient communities in the climate hotspots and establishing Climate Centre at Sreepur, Gazipur.