Coastal Development Partnership (CDP)

Coastal Development Partnership (CDP) is an emerging third generation NGO (committed to right-based programming) that has been working to establish rights of the poor women and men of the southwest Bangladesh since its inception in 1997. The organization led many advocacy campaigns for conservation of the coastal wetlands and the Sundarbans biodiversity and to establish rights of the landless to khaslands. Safe Sundarbans campaign, monitoring violation of rights of the women labours in shrimp farms, and capacity building of the grassroots organizations towards rights based programming are ongoing projects of the organization among others. In addition to that, the organization is working to establish people’s rights to information and to ensure participation of the local people to designing and implementation of projects by the local government organizations (Union Parishads).