AVAS

AVAS Bhaban, Amirkutir Lane, Alekanda, Barishal-8200.
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Vision

Mision

An environment and technology-friendly, gender-sensitive, fair, self-reliant, inclusive and harmonious society.

AVAS works with people facing structural and crisis-driven vulnerabilities, including persons with disabilities and those in climate-vulnerable contexts, to strengthen livelihoods and meaningful fundamental rights, promote gender equality, ensure equitable access to services and opportunities, enhance accountability and uphold dignity through participatory and collaborative approaches.

Vision Clarification Notes

  1. Environment and Technology-Friendly: Prioritizing environmental protection, climate resilience, and the use of appropriate, ethical, and responsible technologies in development and humanitarian actions.
  2. Gender-Sensitive: Recognizing and respecting the diverse realities, roles, and needs of women, men, and people of diverse gender identities, and ensuring equal opportunities and empowerment for all.
  3. Fair: Ensuring fairness by addressing social, economic and structural inequalities, and promoting equitable access to rights, resources, and opportunities.
  4. Self-Reliant: Strengthening the capacities of individuals, organizations and communities to make informed decisions and build sustainable livelihoods.
  5. Inclusive: Ensuring equal dignity, participation and rights for all people, regardless of religion, ethnicity, caste, gender, age, ability or social status.
  6. Harmonious: Promoting peaceful coexistence, mutual trust, and social cohesion while respecting diversity.​

Mission Clarification Notes

  1. Structural vulnerability: Structural vulnerability refers to a condition where individuals or groups are systematically exposed to risk, exclusion, and deprivation due to social, economic, political, or institutional structures—rather than temporary events or personal choices.
  2. Crisis-driven vulnerabilities: Crisis-driven vulnerabilities refer to the temporary but acute risks faced by individuals or households as a result of disasters, climate-related events, health emergencies, economic shocks, or other sudden crises.
  3. Persons with disabilities: Persons with disabilities refer to individuals who have long-term or permanent physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, in interaction with societal, environmental, informational, and institutional barriers, hinder their full and equal participation.
  4. Those in climate-vulnerable contexts: People living in areas exposed to climate change–related risks such as cyclones, floods, storm surges, droughts, salinity intrusion, river erosion, and other environmental hazards.
  5. Strengthen livelihoods: Improving income, employment opportunities, skills, assets, and access to markets to meet basic needs sustainably.
  6. Meaningful fundamental rights: The effective and dignified realization of rights such as food, shelter, education, healthcare and safety in people lived realities.
  7. Promote gender equality: Ensuring equal rights, opportunities, and dignity for all genders and eliminating discrimination.
  8. Ensure equitable access: Creating fair opportunities by recognising differences and providing inclusive measures according to need.
  9. Services and opportunities: Education, healthcare, social protection, housing, WASH, employment, skills, justice, governance, and participation.
  10. Enhance accountability: Ensuring transparency and answerability of decision-makers and empowering people to claim rights.
  11. Uphold dignity: Recognizing people as rights-holders and ensuring respectful, abuse-free service delivery.
  12. Participatory approach: Ensuring meaningful involvement of communities in planning, implementation, and evaluation.
  13. Collaborative approach: Working collectively with government, civil society, private sector, and communities.
Vision Clarification Notes
Mission Clarification Notes
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