Nabolok Parishad is a Bengali term meaning "An Assembly for a New World." Nabolok is a voluntary non-government organi-zation of Bangladesh. In the year of 1986 a group of dedicated citizens living in Khulna established NABOLOK to uphold the philosophy of ensuring people's rights. Due to lack of external funding, the members conducted social welfare activities within their limited means. After obtaining registration in 1990, Nabolok commenced development activities in earnest, with the assistance of national and international donors.

Since then Nabolok takes development as a positive change of economic, social, political, cultural and moral aspects of human life. It empowers the powerless through concretization and alternative institution building for liberation of the majority of people from prejudices and exploitative mechanism of the society that breeds poverty and injustices
 

Mission

Promote, Protect and Support self- reliant, participatory development efforts of the people.
 

Vision

A poverty free prosperous society.
 

Objectives:

	Empower people towards poverty alleviation.
	Ensure better Gender relation in development
	Increase peoples' participation in development
	Environmental Protection and promotion.
	Increase Peoples' Capacity to secure their Democratic and Human rights
	Disaster management and capacity build up of the peoples
	Empowering the poor in securing their basic rights.
	Formation of independent functioning groups.
	Establishment of a core fund for promotion of income generation projects.
	Reducing malnutrition, disease and mortality rate of women and children.
	Increasing family and social integrity with special emphasis on gender equity.
	Develop a sustainable environment and identify the strategy to prevent environmental pollution.
	Ensure the access of the poor to common property natural resources.

The development strategy of Nabolok comprises two major components: poverty reduction and empowerment of the marginalized male and female. In pursuance of those objectives, the organization has given priorities to the process of people's participation in development. Nabolok believes that the marginalized groups mainly suffer from lack of enlightenment on and access to resources.
Development therefore is by no means an economic problem only. Social and other issues need to be counted with the economic growth, and it can only be achieved by ensuring a process of people's empowerment. One of the main components of Nabolok's above strategy is to work as a facilitator to initiate the process by:

Making the group people aware to assert their own rights. It requires transformation of society. Such transformation is to be achieved by the people themselves. From this point of view, development is an integral part of building people's institutions.

Assisting them to be united in a homogeneous interest group.

Preparing them so that they can plan, control and manage their own affairs without outside assistance.

Forming a central structure of people's institutions at Upazilla level through a democratic process, which will supervise and develop the group to serve the ends, side by side strengthen the local electoral body.


 

Nabolok’s working Areas/population coverage

Nabolok is currently serving about half a million population in 8 Upazillas, One City Corporation & a Pourashava (Municipality) of 3 districts covering 174 villages through out the country. Nabolok has been maintaining network relationship with like-minded NGOs, associations and institution throughout the country and abroad, whose philosophy and organizational goals are close to those of Nabolok.  

District City Corporation/ Pourashava Ward Upazilla Union Village Khulna 1 5 3 08  33 Bagerhat - - 5 25 141 Gazipur 1 3 - - - Total-03 1+1=2 8 8 33 174