CAF NGO PROFILE

01. Organization Details:

a) Name of the Organization

: Community Advancement Forum (CAF).

b) Address

: Ujani Para, Bandarban 4600. P.O. Box 05.

: District: Bandarban Hil District Bangladesh.
Fax & Phone: 088-0361-63229. E-mail- caf_93@yahoo.com

c) Contact Person

: Rev. L.Dolian,
Secretary & Executive Director
Phone: +88-0361-63229 (Off), +88-0361-62476 (Res).
Mobile 01556744534.

d) Legal Status of the Organization:

i) Registration Authority
: Department of Social Service.
ii) Registration No
: Bandar No: 85/95.
iii) Date
: 25.02.1995.
iv) Registration Authority
: NGO Affairs Bureau.
: Regt No: 2022.
: Dated 29:03. 2005.
02. Background:

The Community Advancement Forum (CAF) is a local non-political Organization. It has

been established on 10th February, 1993 by the General Meeting at Bandarban Town,
attended many village Karbaries and elite persons from different villages from Rowngchari,
Ruma and Bandarban Upazila under Bandarban Hill District. This Local NGO was formed
according to the willingness of the community people in a view to deal with the present
socio-economic problems in different villages by means of good understanding and sharing
the problems each other and to find out the best way of solving the problems through free
discussion and people participation in the decision making and get-together under an
umbrella of CAF Organization.

03. Year of Establishment: - CAF established in 1993.

04. Project Activities: The CAF activities started from 2001.
05. Vision, Mission and Goal:
5.1. Vision:

CAF visualized a society-poverty free, socially, economically self-reliant and conscious about
basic rights and human dignity.

5.2: Mission Statement:

CAF is working and assist the needy and neglected people at grass root level and find access to
sustain in the society with due dignity. Therefore CAF will take all necessary initiatives
/measurer towards empowerment and self-determinations of community people enabling them to
solve their own socio-economic problems by themselves towards poverty elevation.
5.3: Goal: To help and develop the distressed, needy, neglected and vulnerable people in Bandarban Hill
District socially and economically by providing them necessary assistance for sustaining their
lives and conditions specially the women and children as well.

6. Local Contract Point:

CAF Central Office,
PCB-Mission Building ,Tuantul Runtual
Kalaghata,Adjacent New Sango Bridge
P.O. & P.S.: Bandarban, Bandarban Hill District

7. Branch Office: CAF Sub Office, Ruma 4620; Ruma Upazila, Bandarban Hill District.
08. Aims and objectives of the Organization:
CAF is working towards achieving the following objectives for the benefit of its target group the poor,
socially and economically deprived people.

To concientize and create awareness among the people of poorest of the poor on prevailing socioeconomic situation and encourage them for active participation in socio-economic development
program.
To undertake suitable projects and programs with special emphasis on Primary Health Care/Family
Planning & Family Welfare/ Comprehensive Rural Development/Preservation of environment.
To undertake skill development training programs for women society on handicraft, handloom,
horticulture, pisciculture, and livestock and assist them by giving them short term loan for creating
sources of income by themselves.
To assist deserving poor people by means of giving them short term loan for creating income generating.
To train up required number of volunteers on Family Health Care, Traditional Birth attendants and
Functional Education etc.
To establish manageable Training Center for Community Development Training for various level of
people.
To print or publish periodical magazines, books, pamphlets, leaflets or booklets that the CAF may
considered desirable or helpful in the promotion of its objects.
To co-operate and assist in suitable joint venture with the governmental Organizations and agencies
seeking the goal of redressing poverty and improving health status of common people or relief and
rehabilitation at the time of any disaster.
To plan and execute Development, Relief and Rehabilitation programs within the terms of objects of the
CAF.
To establish, run and support Health Care Center, Clinic, Technical Training Center, Schools, grant,
stipend and scholarship for higher studies at home and abroad and do all such other things as may be
benefit for the community.
To all such other things as are necessary or conducive to attainment of the objects of the CAF.
Women empowerment organizing, mobilizing, developing capacity and skills and creating provision of
inclusion in decision making process in family and community enabling them to become economically
and socially independent.
Ensure cost effective community-based affordable and easy access health service especially for women
and children (Primary health, antennal and postnatal).
Protection and preservation of culture, language and tradition of tribal indigenous people.
To seek and receive subscriptions, donations and other supports from persons, institutions or
Organizations both from home and abroad and use the same for the purposes of the Organization;
however for receiving and utilizing any foreign donation or contributions, or support the organization

shall abide by all provisions laid down in the Foreign Donation (Voluntary activities) Regulation
Ordinance 1978 and Rule made there under.

9. Statement of Staff.
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Nature of Staff

01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10

Executive Director
Director
Coordinator
Account Officer
Upazila Organizer
Project Organizer (P.O)
Project Manager
Field Worker
Care-Taker
Volunteer
Total

Number of Staff
M
1
1
1
1
1
1
23
1
18
48

F
1
3
7
11

Total

Remarks

1
1
1
1
1
1
1
26
1
25
59

Honorary
Honorary
Honorary
Full time
Full time
Full time
Full time
Full time
Full time
Full time
Voluntary Service

ORGANIZATIONAL STRENGTH AND ACTIVITIES

NAME OF ORGANIZATION: Community Advancement Forum (CAF).
1
2
3
4
Year of
Establis
hment
In 1993

Number of Staff
Area of
operation
Bandarban
Ruma and
Rowngcha
ri Upazila

Executive
Director
Coordinator
Accountant
Information
Officer
Upazila
Organizer
Project
Manager
Project
Organizer
Field
Worker
Care-Taker
Volunteer

Male
1
1
1
1
23
1
1
18

47

Female
1
3
7

11

Program/Projects and
Non-Project Activities
1) Cash cropping Project
2) Prosika funded Project
3) PPIPR-Project funded
by Danida
4) CEP-funded UNDP
5) HDP Project funded
by Danida.
6) NFPE-funded by
BRAC
7) Livelihood SecurityIFAD
8) PSLG Project funded
by Danida

9) Non Project
Activities.
- Primary School-9-Local
Fund
- Workshop/Seminar on
Socio-Economic
Development.
- Training on Human
Right.
- Training on Gender
Issues
- Training on Land
Rights
- Training on
Management
and Leadership
- Motivation works on
Community
Development,
Health and Sanitation etc.

5
Beneficiates
Male Femal Childr
e
en
80
220
200
321
245
258
244
208
165
8429
215

7852
200

6262
185

275

280

305

305

400

295

359

307

119

212

108

650

460

250

140

85

160

86

35

105

48

1800

1500

10

Donor-Funded Project

Counterpart
(Partnership)

General
Member
Male Female
18
07

Executive
Member
Male Female
6
3

Advisors
Male
-

Female
-

01. Community Dev. Project

funded by Proshika.

Hill Tracts
Network

02. CCP Project funded by

Danida.
03. PPIPR-Funded by Danida.

Toymu

Do

Do

Do

Do

Toymu

Do

Do

Do

Do

04. CEP-funded by CHTDFUNDP.

05. HDP funded by Danida.

CHTDF-UNDP

Do

Do

Do

Do

Individual direct
funded by Danida
Embassy
Direct funded by
BRAC
Direct funded by
IFAD, Italy

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Do

Toymu

Do

Do

Do

Do

06. NFPE-funded by BRAC.

07. Livelihood Security
Projectfunded by IFAD.
08. PSLG Project funded by
Danida

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT FORUM (CAF).

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1.1

Activities

Strength

Planning
a. Budgeting
b. Logical
Frameworks
c. Strategy
d. Monitoring
e. Evaluation
f. Audit

- Resources
- EC
- Grassroots
People
- Rules an
regulations
- Organization
ideology

Project Cycle Management.

Weakness
Opportunity
Constraints
- Language
- Skills &
experiences
- Logistic

- People
- Working area
Communication
- Regional
Council

- Season
- Unrest Political
situation
- Local
administration
- Limitation of
fund
Recommendatio - Impose of
n
Project
& Support
area
- Local Leaders
Support.
-Mass people
support

Recommendatio
n
- Needed
Training
on P.P Writing
- Good
relationship
with local
Administration.
- Keep
relationship
with local &
other
NGOs

1.2

Project
Implementatio
n
a. Fund
processing
b. Baseline
survey
c. Staff
Recruitment
d. Orientation
e. Selection of
beneficiaries
f. Training
g. Materials
procurement
h. Supervision
&
Monitoring
i. Reporting
j. Evaluation
k. Audit

- Project
implementation
Committee
(PIC)
- Executive
Committee
- Purchasing
Committee
- Interview
Board
- Internal
Evaluation
Team.
- External Audit

Coordination
- Technical

- PIC & EC
- Govt.
Departmental
concern
authorities
- Cooperation
between all
member
bodies and
workers of the
Organization
- Relationship
with other
Local NGOs

- Delay of
permission from
the Govt.
authority
- Delay of fund
issue from
Donor
- Unseasoned
implementation
of the Project
- Political unrest
- Unavailability
of
Resources.

- Optimum
Training.
- Cross visit
excursion trip
within the
country or
outside the
country

ACTIVITIES OF CAF (Past and Present).

SL
No
01

Name of Project Program

Community
Development
Project Funded
by Prosika

1. Credit Program
2. NFPE School
Program.
3. Nursery
Program
4. Group Training
5. Salary for 3
workers:
- Accountant 1
- Organizer 2

Location of
Project
Bandarban and
Ruma Thana area
under Bandarban
Hill District.

Duration
One year
(2001-2002)

Achieve
-ment
85%

Remarks
The Project was funded
by
Prosika
and
implemented through lead
NGO Green Hill. The
credit activities is going
on well as per the demand
of the Local People. So,
the Program may be
extended accordingly in
considering the demand
of the beneficiaries 400
(Four hundred) people
benefited through this
Program in the last 2
years. Existing family
members are 342 at
present.
on
going
Unfortunately the Project
could not continue on as
the Prosika could not
continue funding No
more existed

02

Cash cropping
Project for
swidden/ Jumia
people Project.
Funded by
Danida

1. Seeds supply
2. Beneficiaries &
Staffs Training
3. Technical
support
4. Traveling
expenses
5. Support 3 field
worker and one
Accountant

Bandarban Sadar
and Sowlok
Unions under
Bandarban Thana
area. Dist.
Bandarban Hill
District.

03

Promotion &
Protection of
Indigenous
People Through
Awareness and
Capacity
Building
(PPIPR) funded
by DANIDA

1. Baseline survey & family

selection
2. Orientation for Staff Members,
local leaders and Stakeholders
3. Training for Staffs and sheboks
(Volunteer worker)
4. Training for Traditional leadersHeadman, Karbaries elected
members and Chairman
5. Functional School Program
6. Training on Theatre group
members
7. Logical support
8. Cash support for PARA Samity
groups
9. Technical Support.
10. Support 4 field workers and
one Accountant.
11. Training for group Leaders on
Management and Accounts etc.

One year
(February
2003January
2004)

No. 1 Paindu and

No. 4 Calengya
Unions, Ruma
Thana, Dist.
Bandarban Hill
District.

85%

3 year
(Sept,
2004Sept,
2007)

The Project has been

implemented
about
85% as per P.P.
designed and budgeted
funded by DANIDA.
The
Project
is
implemented through
lead
NGO-TOYMU.
This Project was well
accepted and demanded
by local people.
90%

The Project
has
been
implemente
d 90% as
per
P.P.
designed
and
budgeted
funded by
DANIDA.
The Project
was
implemente
d
through
lead NGOTOYMU as
partnership.
The Project
was
completed
and
submitted
again new
P.P to the
Donor to be
continued
on
with
some
slightly
changed of
the
components.

04

05

Community
Empowerm
ent Program
(CEP)
funded by
CHTDFUNDP.

Horticulture
Developme
nt Project(HDP)
funded by
Danida.

1. Recruitment of Staff
2. Orientation for
Executive & Senior Staff
and Stake holders etc.
3. Baseline survey and
selection of beneficiaries
4. Extensive Training
program for Staff and
Executive & Senior Officer
on Management, Accounts,
Book keeping and
Reporting etc.
5. Formation of Para
Development Committee
(PDC).
6. Training for group
leaders.
7. Cross visit
8. Logical Support
9. Technical Support
10. Support for field Staff
& part time Accountant
11. Evaluation & Audit
1. Orientation for Staff
Members
2. TOT Training for Staffs
on Management
3. Baseline Survey
4. Selection of
beneficiaries
5. Seeds supply
6. Beneficiaries Training
on horticulture
7. Beneficiaries Training
on Human Rights.
8. Logical Support
9. Technical Support
10. Support for field
Workers one Accountant
11. Evaluation & Audit

4 (Four) Unions
- Paindu u/p
- Ruma u/p
- Remakri
Pranysa u/p.
Galengya u/p
under Ruma
Thana Dist.
Bandarban Hill
District.

3 year
(May2005
April2008)

85%

This
Project
is
partnership
with
CHTDF-UNDP
covered 4 Unions
under Ruma Thana
and covered 130
villages within the
Project
period.
Number of families
benefited from this
Program as follow:
Total No. family
20071 H.H
No.
of
Family
Member:
Female- 7852
Male 8429
Total
Population

16,333

1. Sowlok Union
under Bandarban
Thana area.
2. Paindu Union
under Ruma
Thana area.
3. Rowngchari
Union under
Rowngchari
Thana area. Dist.
Bandarban Hill
District.

1 (one)
90%
year
From
Aug-2006
Julyl-2007

This Project was

funded by Danida as
pilot Project for one
year
term.
The
Project
was
implemented by CAF
successfully and well
accepted by local
people. This kind of
Horticulture Project is
highly demanded and
strongly
recommended
to
extend for the interest
of the local people
but could not extend
by the donor as being
their strategy and
working policies had
been changed.

06

Livelihood
Security for
Jumia
people
Through
diversificati
on of Jhum
Cutivation:

1. Staffs Orientation
2. Baseline survey
3. TOT Training for Staffs.
4. Union Level workshop
in 2 unions.
5. Upazila workshop 2
times.
6. 200 former groups
Training in 4 batchs.
7. Management and
leadership Training.
8. Seeds supplies.
9. Subsidies for formers
200 H.H.
10. Technical support
11. Support for 4 field
workers.

Paindu U/P and

Ruma U/P under
Ruma Thana area.
Bandarban Hill
District

1 (one) year
From
September
-2007
August2008

95%

This Project was

funded by IFAD
ITALY for 1 (one)
year
term
and
implemented by CAF.
The Project fully
completed as per P.P
designed and allotted
budget.

3 year
(From
Jan- 2006Dec -2008

95%

This NFPE program

was funded by BRAC
for 3 year term. The
1st Phase was fully
completed in 2008.
The new 2nd phase is
being started again
from April 2009 up to
March 2011. This
program
can
be
extended in every 3
years if the school
Management
committee can run as
direction
of
the
Donor and could
meet the demand of
the local people. 2nd
phase continue on

3 year
(From
April 2008
March-2011

Ongoin
g

This Project is funded

by
Danida
and
implemented by CAF
through lead NGOTOYMU.
This
project will be going
on up-to December
2010 (for 3 years)

On going (Present) Activities

07

08

Non-Formal
Program of
Education(NFPE)

Promotion
&
Strengtheni
ng of Good
Governance
in
Bandarban
Hill
District(PSLG)

1. Orientation
2. Baseline survey
3. Training for Staffs
4. School materials
supplies
5. Refresher for Staffs
monthly.
6. Support for 4 (four)
Teachers and one Project
Organizer (P.O)

Paindu Union and

Galengyn Union,
under Ruma
Thana.

1. Baseline survey
2. Staffs Recruitment
3. Training for Staffs
Members.
4. Training for Theatre
groups
5. Day Observation.
6. Training for SHEBOK
(Volunteers).
7. Functional School

Paindu Union and

Galengyn U nion,
under Ruma
Thana area

Dist. Bandarban
Hill District.

Bandarban Hill
District.

On-going Project

8. Formation of Para
Samity groups.
9. Formation of Union
Human Right Committee.
10. Formation of Upazila
Level Human Rights
Committee.
11. Formation of District
Level Human Rights
Committee
12. Logical Support
13. Technical Support 14.
Training for traditional
leaders-Headmen,
Karbaries, elected
members and
Chairmen.
15. Support for 5 field
Workers and one part-time
Accountant

(Rev. L.Dolian Bawm)

Executive Director-CAF.