Good Neighbors Bangladesh

Good Neighbors Bangladesh empowers communities by fostering environmental sustainability, education and protection, public health, and livelihood opportunities. Our strategic objectives include establishing community-centric, resilient approaches for disaster risk reduction and climate change, promoting quality education and child rights through inclusive community engagement, advancing community health through accessible public health services and community empowerment, and enhancing community livelihood opportunities through women’s entrepreneurship.

We work for children, women, and youth, ensuring their involvement in the planning and implementation stages. Our strategic focus areas are:

• Environmental Sustainability: We foster community-centric resilience for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change by enhancing adaptive capacities through transformative capacity building and innovation. We organize volunteers to reduce carbon footprints, manage waste, and engage in emergency response activities. We follow our community-centric resilience approach for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation capabilities models, ensuring all community members are engaged and resilient.
• Education & Protection: We promote quality education and child rights through inclusive community engagement with comprehensive initiatives. We enable schools to create child-friendly environments and improve access for underprivileged children. We have a participatory monitoring model to increase school performance and ensure quality education. We conduct training for school teachers and engage students in rights-based and contest-based education to create self-motivated learners.
• Public Health: We advance community health through accessible public health services and community empowerment. We operate health and hygiene clubs in secondary-level partner schools. Our Community Health Worker (CHW) model brings significant change to our community’s maternal reproductive health. They help to deliver health services to the community’s doorsteps. Focusing on dispelling misconceptions surrounding menstruation and improving reproductive health, the Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) project aims to positively impact the lives of adolescent girls. For sustainable nutrition arrangements for underprivileged children, we align the community with homestead gardening, livestock support, nutrition and water and sanitation education, and technical training through the community-based nutrition project for children to improve their nutritional status.
• Livelihood Development: We enhance community livelihood opportunities through women’s entrepreneurship. Our action plan focuses on skill enhancement and empowering women through alternative livelihood development. We provide agricultural training and livestock facilities in Char land (floodplain sediment island). We work with women through a cooperative-based income generation model to increase family income and help them become successful entrepreneurs.

Good Neighbors Bangladesh constantly expands its efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The organization has contributed to 12 of the 17 goals (SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17), focusing on SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being), SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 13 (Climate Action), and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).