COAST Trust has been implementing various development activities to empower adolescents. The main strategies of these activities is to enhance knowledge among adolescents, to facilitate them with opportunities. COAST has developed some adolescents’ groups from where they are learning about essential life skills, they are engaging themselves in Income Generating Activities. They are also getting clout as group, they are now working as change agent. They are protecting themselves from child marriage, they are disseminating knowledge and raising their voices through community radio. This leaflet showcases glimpse of the adolescent development efforts in Bhola and Cox’s Bazar. [Click here full report]
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COAST Annual Report 2014-15: Striving towards Self Reliance
The annual report of COAST has just been released. It covers the reporting period of July 2014 to December 2015. Every year COAST publishes its annual report with a specific theme. Theme or title of this year is Striving towards Self Reliance.
COAST observes that, recent three international decisions, taken by the world leaders, will hugely impact the struggle of development of the small countries like Bangladesh. These three decisions indicate that, Bangladesh has no other options than to be self reliant in terms of food security and climate change adaptation. Moreover, this strives for self-reliance must be started from the community level.
This annual report covers COAST efforts towards the journey of achieving self reliance both at the community level and organizational level. The report describes COAST efforts towards food security, women empowerment, institution buildings, livelihood development, education, farmers-fishers capacity building, adolescent empowerment, advocacy and campaign etc.
Uniqueness of the report, it contain case studies, financial trend analysis of the organization, last five year balance sheet analysis and latest audited balance sheet.
COAST is grateful to its partners for their support e.g. Bangladesh Government, Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), Medium Term Cooperation Program (MTCP2), Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Oxfam, Palli Karma Sohayak Foundation (PKSF), Save the Children, Stromme Foundation (SF), UKAid, UNICEF, USAID and WorldFish.
A Tale from Climate Ground Zero
A Coffee Table Book titled “A Tale from Climate Ground Zero” is going to be launched today in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali MP, the honourable Minister Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh will launch the Book in the conference on Disaster and Climate displacement, jointly organised by the Government of Switzerland, the Government of Norway and the Nansen Initiative, on 1520 hours on 12th Oct being held in Starling Hotel in Geneva.
A photo exhibition of Din M Shibly’s photographs will also take place here during 12-13 October at the same hotel.
The book consists of live photographs of the climate affected people and their livelihood in Bangladesh. Renowned Photographer Din M Shibly have been seeing the climate affected people of Bangladesh through his lens since 2003 and witnessed how the people of this area are getting worse situation day by day due to the sea level rise, salinity intrusion and other climate effects.
COAST Trust planned, guided and published this book with the support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Government of Bangladesh. Hasan Mehedi drafted the main text of the book which is edited by Barkat Ullah Maruf, Wafiur Rahman and Rezaul Karim Chowdhury.
Mr. Sahidul Haque, the Foreign Secretary and Mr Riaz Hamidullah, Director General of MoFA guided the design and overall printing along with Mostafa Kamal Akhanda of COAST. DTP artwork and Design is done by Mr Athir Rahman and it is printed by Line Work.
Please note that, COAST’s program component for Advocacy and Campaign, EquityBD has been campaigning at the international level on “Rights and Responsibilities on Climate Forced Migrants” since 2007, UNFCCC CoP in Bali, in cooperation with other international civil society and NGO networks.
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Survival on Ground Zero Annual Report Jan`13 – Jun`14
Bangladesh among other climate victim countries (CVC) is going to be one of the most affected countries in the world in the coming days. There are two basic reasons behind it. First, the country is a low-lying one and sits only within 15 to 20 feet from the sea level and thus precariously exposed to the effects of sea level rise. Second, this is one of the most disaster prone areas of the world and is frequently hit by the tropical cyclones and flood in the monsoon. The riverine land is very soft and built up on silt and that’s why it is too fragile to face the acute river and coastal erosion.
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Seaweed Book
COAST publishes a research and experience sharing book on the seaweeds as an alternative source of nutrition titled “Potentials of Seaweeds”. A project funded by PKSF (Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation) titled “Finance for Enterprise Development and Employment Creation (FEDEC)” is being implemented by COAST in Teknaf, Ukhia and St. Martin where we are training up a number of seaweed farmer on how to grow seaweeds in a scientific method. Seaweed is not so popular in Bangladesh as a food item but it has a great source of nutrition and herbal medicine. We are also trying to make it popular by promoting it. We published the book to share our success and experience on it.
Lighting the way Annual Report 2011-12
Having an aim of socio-economic and sustainable development of the coastal poor of Bangladesh, COAST Trust (Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust) starts its operation in Bhola on January 1,1998. Through a painstaking journey with a pertinacious endeavor the organization gradually develops and expands its operation to 6 more coastal districts of Bangladesh i.e. Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Noakhali, Laxmipur, Feni and Patuakhali leaving footprint of development and empowerment of women and disadvantaged people. COAST plans to extend over 5 more coastal districts by 2015. All the programs and projects of COAST are divided into two core areas i.e. Economic Justice (EJ) and Social Justice (SJ). EJ
focuses on micro finance (MF) which is comprehensively driven by a Right Based Approach (RBA). EJ integrates Coastal Integrated Technology Extension Programs (CITEP) and Primary Healthcare and Nutrition entirely for the beneficiaries.
Download [Lighting the way – January to December 2012]
A journey for integration – Annual Report 2010 – 2011
The Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust(COAST Trust) started its operation in Bhola district since January 1, 1998, aiming for socio-economic and sustainable development of the coastal poor. As strategic part of organizational growth, COAST expanded its activities at Cox’sbazaar district (in 2001), Patuakhali district (in 2004), Feni, Laxmipur and Noakhali districts (in 2006), and Chittagong district (in 2010). It is a plan to include five more coastal districts by 2015. COAST is executing its programs and projects under two core divisions: i) Economic Justice (EJ), ii) Social Justice (SJ). EJ is focused on Micro Finance (MF) with integration of Right Based Approach (RBA), primary health care and nutrition and coastal integrated technology extension programs, community based disaster management. SJ division is aimed to build alternative power structure from the poor at local level who has the capacity for demand mediation, ability to organize issue-based local mobilization, empowers to challenge any irregularity especially in public service delivery. All the efforts of SJ section of COAST are directly implemented with the effective participation of the member participants and leaders. Major concentration of SJ is to establish People’s Organization (PO), local governance, development education, campaign and advocacy etc. For details please visit www.coastbd.org.
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