Over the past 20 years, since it's establishment in 1985 as a people centered development organization, CODEC has been growing and evolving into efficient and effective non-governmental development organization in the coastal area of Bangladesh. CODEC has been tracking to a holistic approach towards poverty alleviation in the coastal area through intensive participation of underprivileged people men, women, children and adolescents.
  People, rather than resources, are at the center of CODEC development goal and objectives. Institutions and institutional processes being central to the vision and mission of CODEC, it is sensitized in people centered development puts people as the major propeller and major recipient of development. CODEC perspective challenges the mainstream concept of development as one of maximizing socio-political entity and economic growth, with the fervent hope that its benefits would trickle down to the people and the focal points would be the underprivileged men, women, children and adolescents of coastal communities.