ESDO

Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) was formed in 1988 with the spontaneous response of flood hazards for the empowerments of poor and underprivileged communities. Through the passage of time, it gradually oriented toward a wider proposition for practicing holistic sustainable development to ensure livelihoods that would be sustainable and resilient. With more than three and a half decades of commitment, ESDO has emerged as a model for underprivileged communities in Bangladesh for sustainable development.

ESDO targets unserved and under-served areas, adopting a participatory and community-led approach that ensures local ownership and opening up enabling environments in its chosen areas of operation. This has enabled the organization to achieve outstanding successes in livelihood improvement, food security, and nutrition, education, women's empowerment, health care, children's rights, youth and adolescent engagement, and ethnic minorities' rights.