NUF Governing Board
- Governed by a seven-member Board of Directors with a clear separation of governance and management roles.
- Compliant with the laws and regulations of Bangladesh and donor requirements.
- Maintains a dedicated senior management team for programs, finance, M&E, and operations.
- Policies in place for procurement, anti-corruption, gender equality, safeguarding, and environmental responsibility.
The NUF Executive Body is responsible to govern the development activities of the organization. All the policies of Executive Body are implemented by modest staff headed by Executive Director who is responsible for overall program implementation and management.
The design and delivery system of NUF are flexible, autonomous and open. Moreover, NUF is featured by well-planned and well-implemented schedule of activities, carefully recruited staff, stares on supervision and monitoring NUF maintains frequent project spot visits by the supervisory staff, sound performance appraisal, relative area and minimal standardization in staff hiring and firing arrangements and regular participation in the planning and decision making process by different levels of staff and target groups for successful implementation of programs.
An Executive Committee (EC) that is elected by a general body of sixteen members governs NUF.
Governance Structure
- a) General Body
- b) Executive Body
- c) Advisory Board
Legal Status
NUF was registered with the
Directorate of Women Affairs (DWA)
Reg.No-Chand-68/2005, Dated: December 20, 2005
Affiliation of Directorate of Family Planning (DGFP)
Reg.No-03; date: August 07, 2018
Joyeeta Foundation under Ministry of Women and Child Affairs
Reg.No-10100072, Dated: 21 September 2023
Registered with the Bangladesh Election Commission as a NGO Election Observer
Reg.No-13, Dated: 13/12/2023
Implementation Strategy
1. Staff Induction Package:
Include the organizational culture principles in the staff induction package to ensure all new employees are aware of and understand these values from the outset.
2. Periodic Refreshers:
Conduct regular refresher sessions to reinforce the principles and ensure ongoing commitment to the organizational culture.
3. Yearly ‘Champion’ of Organizational Culture Excellence:
Announce a yearly ‘Champion’ of organizational culture excellence to recognize and reward employees who exemplify these values.
4. Organization-Wide Orientation:
Conduct orientation sessions across the organization to consistently communicate and instill the organizational culture at all levels.
Target Communities
The target communities of the organization are the poor women, youth and children representing landless and resource-poor families. A significant number of these women are single income-earners for the family. Keeping relevance to its vision and mission NUF works for people in general to build a better tomorrow, giving its main thrust on the poorest of the poor, the disadvantaged and marginalized people who include:
- Distressed Women, youth and Adolescent & Children’s
- Landless and pro-poor Widows
- Other Artisans
Present Donor
Bangladesh NGO Foundation
Department of Women Affairs under Ministry of Women and Child Affairs
Directorate of Youth Development under Ministry of Youth and Sports
Muslim Charity/ISDE, Bangladesh
Action Aid Bangladesh
Bangladesh Bank(CSR Support)
Network Members
We are the Active Member of the
- Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), Switzerland.
- Nari Udduk Kendra, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- ShareNet Bangladesh, Dhaka.
- Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB), Dhaka.
- Sanitation and Water for All(SWA)-UK.
- Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) Germany.
- Centre for Women and Children Studies (CWCS), Dhaka. BD.
- Right to Food Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- National Alliance for Drowning Prevention (NADP), Bangladesh.
- Election Monitoring Forum, Bangladesh.
- Just Energy Transition Network- Bangladesh (JetNet-BD), Action Aid Bangladesh.
- Member of Civil Society Organization (CSO).
- Climate Justice Network in Bangladesh (CJNB), Samprity Aid Foundation, Bangladesh.
- Youth 4 Change Network (France), Nepal Chapter.