Goal
To
promote economic, social, political and environmental development through rights-based,
participatory and democratic process to eliminate social evils, illiteracy,
ignorance, ill-health, immorality, discriminatory practices, environmental
degeneration, undemocratic norms and usages.
Objectives
The
following are the key objectives of NIDS:
a) To create self-employed entrepreneurs
through entrepreneurship development.
b) To conduct various activities for the
development of small scale enterprises in the community.
c) To support and facilitate new
entrepreneurs in business start-up, access to small scale loans for promotion
of business.
d) To conduct awareness and functional
programs for the people/communities/groups deprived of human rights.
e) To eliminate violence and promote
peace through awareness raising, with drawl and rehabilitation as well as
prevention of violence of any form.
f) To implement awareness raising and
rehabilitation as well as prevention of disabilities and marginalized people.
g) Work to build a just and healthy
culture by reducing gender, ethnic and other discriminatory practices and
norms, inequity and other social evils.
h) To promote good governance, rule of
law, transparency and responsibility.
i) To operate adult, women and child
literacy through formal and non-formal structures.
j) Function to prevent child labor and
human trafficking as well as to empower the marginalized.
k) To develop projects for raising
awareness and service delivery on general health, sanitation, food and water,
reproductive health, family planning, STD/HIV AIDS and so on.
l) Effort to income-generation and skill
development for employment/self-employment of the marginalized communities or
groups through integrated development schemes or saving/credit schemes or
affiliation with other financial institutions grating loans for deprived
communities.
m) To implement projects on safe
drinking water and sanitation.
n) Endeavor towards modernizing
agriculture through irrigation development and management, improved seeds,
cropping system, organic farming animal husbandry and so on.
o) To develop and operate programs for
controlling disasters caused by floods, fire, land slides soil-erosion and
environment degradation as well as promotion of bio-diversity.
p) To work in cooperation, coordination
and partnership with like-minded and similar organizations agencies.