Programmes
Socio-Cultural Development
Institution building through social mobilization and CODEC facilitation created a sense of solidarity among the disadvantaged people of the coastal area. As the process of social mobilization has been evolving, these disadvantaged communities begin to assert the rights on the coastal and marine resources to which they are entitled. This also enables them to have access to additional marine resources to whice they are surving. This countervailing power is a part of the democratic and human development process, which is ensuring greater equity gradually. This deprived community people have been becoming progressively more aware and further self-reliant. Institution Building through intensive participation of the community people hase also been evidently exposed as a platform of collective voice and action. Core intenventions under socio-people's Organization development and Good Governance, Advocacy and Socio Mobilization, Social Services and Linkage Building and Training.
Economic Development and Empowerment
A continuous support of Savings and Credit is required to develop the target people, who has no access to the formal credit market, and who are otherwise subjected to service exploitation of the informal credit market. The seasonal income of target members does not comply with a regular repayment schedule and thus make them vulnerable to informal credit. The purpose of the
savings scheme is to encourage the habit of regular saving among the members, to mobilize local resources, to provide safe keeping of member’s money, to earn interest to the members, and to provide security base for loans from the CODEC loan fund. The purpose of the loan fund is to provide target members access to loans for productive purposes (including all sorts of present products and also new products e.g. micro-credit, micro enterprise, Dadan (advance payments as tied loans) Free loan, small rural based industries etc.) on reasonable terms. CODEC will also work especially with Hard-Core Poor members as well as among well-off members with separate terms and conditions. Main Interventions for economic development are: Savings, Credit, Enterpreneurship Development Skill Development Through Training and Insurance.
National Advocacy
CODEC has adopted National Advocacy program with the aim of bringing the life and livelhood of the coastal and riverine communities to light through Right Based Approach (RBA). The strategy
of the programe is to influence national decision makers and other powere actors for making pro-people plans and policies. Besides, the advocacy initiatives are facilating awareness building and rising their voice regarding rights and needs of the coastal people. Core activities of the National advocacy are: Rights education and awareness, Social research and information dissemination, Compaign and mobilization of power actors and Media campaign.
