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ABOUT US
Social Research and Development Center (SRDC) is an independent, non-governmental and development organization. SRDC obtained its registration certificate (Number: 37526 dated 20 April 2015) from the Office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms in 2015 under the Partnership Act 1932. As per partnership act this organization is allowed the “business” includes every trade, occupation and profession. SRDC offers social science research, consultancy and professional services with most stringent and highest quality.
Read More...- SRDC aims to contribute to Bangladesh’s social and sustainable development, investigate and research political, social and economic problems and challenges facing the country. SRDC’s mission is to work with international and national organizations as well as local communities to resolve development challenges, build sound development models and contribute to the country’s overall sustainable development. It is seeks to meet all research needs of international development organizations, local NGOs and government institutions.
- We, at SRDC, offers a wide range of services for international, local, development organizations and donors community, government institutions and private sector, including all sorts of quantitative and qualitative research, monitoring and evaluation, Baseline survey, Impact Evaluation, Capacity building training, youth development, women empowerment, events management, employment creation, among several others. The quantitative services include public opinion survey, demographic, household and economic, women empowerment, social harmony, citizen voices, right to information. In- depth interviews, focus groups, change tree analysis, H-assessment, Spider diagram, among several others, are the key qualitative services offered by SRDC. It also offers management, marketing and strategy consulting for small and medium businesses and NGOs.
- Although it has been recently established, SRDC has a professional, dedicated and team enjoying track-record experience in managing qualitative and quantitative research/survey projects, credible baseline, evaluation, program design, strategy formulation, etc. These projects were conducted nationwide and covered a wide range of issues, be that economic, political, social or cultural.
- SRDC has a dedicated, highly experienced and qualified team. In addition, the SRDC cooperates with numerous experts, consultants and university professors inside and outside Bangladesh, when the need be.
- In addition our own in-house research capabilities, SRDC maintain strategic network relationship with some community based organizations, local NGOs, Foundations and international NGOs and this would allow for conducting large scale surveys and research projects. SRDC’s team has also wide experience in managing, implementing and supervising internationally-funded projects. Earlier the team member of SRDC has managed and supervised development and awareness raising projects for World Bank, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Democracy Fund, USAID, World Vision, and the Government Organization.
- GOAL AND OBJECTIVES: To speed up socio-economic development enhancing to end hunger and poverty aiming at establishment of a society, free from multi-scale approaches like humanitarian crises, poverty, injustice, deprivation and corruption, commensurate with national goals and people’s desires by contributing towards enhancement of the institutional capacity of public, private and civil society. Objectives:
- To provide technical assistance in public, private and non-government development projects for successful execution of services for project formulation, assessment, monitoring and evaluation, promoting accountability and transparency, financial management system and result-oriented monitoring, evaluation and assessment;
- To contribute innovative and effective working ideas, advocates on behalf of poor communities and institutional technical capacity building for efficient utilization of grants in aid and micro-credit fund that supported by both development partners and local funds;
- To disseminate human knowledge and information through organizing seminars and workshops, and to provide technical assistance through formal contract and informal meetings and discussions.
To improve human development, employment creation, build a society free from humanitarian crises, poverty, deprivation and corruption through research, evaluation and innovation.
MAJOR AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
RESEARCH:SRDC usually conducts research essential for exploring new paradigms, modalities and the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions for proper implementation of projects and programmes. SRDC has developed a team of professionals with diverse skills and know how who are committed to find out the best practices through multi-disciplinary research.
PROJECT PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING AND EVALUATION:Planning, monitoring and evaluation of projects are essential to gauge the maximal effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability of a programme or how the programmes is meeting its intended aims. Considering the importance, SRDC apply utmost emphasis on monitoring, evaluation, result based monitoring system and impact study of development plans, programmes and projects.
RESOURCE PERSONS AND EXPERTS
Social Research and Development Center (SRDC) is a firm comprised of professional, experienced and skilled staff and resource persons. They are efficient especially in operational research, institutional capacity building, implementation and evaluation of development projects, target group training, training of trainers (TOT) and organizing seminars and conducting workshop as well as overall financial management and performance evaluation.
It is our persistent endeavor to pool efficient manpower and proper material resources to achieve our mission and objectives. We have developed, so far, an outstanding mix of professionals like –Planners and Researchers, Sociologists, Economists, nutritionist, and Enterprise Development Experts, specialized Consultants on Export and Trade-related matters, Media, etc. The staff, consultants and resource persons are well equipped in their own areas of specialization. They have designed and successfully conducted a good numbers of operations and action research, studies, training courses, workshops and performance appraisal of development projects, NGOs and the public and private sector corporations of the government. So, the combined and complementary skills of the staff, consultants and resource persons are the major strength of SRDC. We strongly believe and confirm that we can efficiently perform any assigned job in our areas of experience and specialization.
