Strategy:
The nature of poverty is multi-dimensional and in Bangladesh it has four main causes: lack of economic opportunities, low human capabilities, disempowerment and high insecurity. The extreme poor in particular lack the power to change their situation themselves for the following broad reasons: social position (social status; ethnic, religious, economic and gender discrimination); human conditions (low/irregular income, lack of education and skills, lack of livelihoods opportunity, no access to working capital, high vulnerability to risks); institutional environment (weak governance and justice, inadequate social security system, exclusive attitude and lack of responsiveness from elites and other stakeholders). In Bangladesh, about half of population live below the national poverty line with the majority living on less than $1 a day. Women are still being oppressed and children abused in Bangladesh. Women remain inferior to Men and under-represented. Poverty and Hunger in Bangladesh is so extreme that about half of the children in Bangladesh are underweight and malnurished. According to FAO, currently about 45% population in Bangladesh are below the poverty level while around 20% are extreme poor. SKS will give attention to implement development intervention for uplifting the extreme poor households from poverty line.
 
Untouched Harizon community consists of cobbler, sweeper, dome etc still remain socially excluded by other communities. They are the most disadvantaged and isolated community who cannot take part in any social activities. Adivasi people are also excluded from the main stream of development. SKS will give due importance to the voice of the Harizon and Adivasi communities by involving them in the main stream of development. Some development programmes will be undertaken considering their needs. SKS will support in retaining all good cultural practices, cultural heritage and uphold nationalism spirit.

Objectives:
Promoting civic rights of disadvantage and marginalized groups.

Major activities:

• Unite the extreme poor households in a platform.
• Regular counselling/mentoring for self confident building
• Awareness and knowledge enhancement.
• Support for asset and capital building.
• Advocacy for linking them with duty bearers and service providers.
• Facilitation for market linkage
• Lobby for allocation of lands to the horizon and Adivasi communities
• Develop cultural team to retain good cultural practices
• Undertake education programme for the children of Harizon community
• Inclusion of Harizon and Adivasi communities in all development programmes
• Promoting culture of horizon and adivashis within the mainstream society.

Strategy:
Since inception SKS is promoting CBOs to establish rights of the poor people, attain bargaining capacity and establish easy access to the available services. In the coming years SKS will give more emphasis to incorporate hard core poor, divorced, widow destitute women and people with disability. Easy and less complicated approach will be used to include those bypassed people of the society.
Capacity building of the CBO is another big concern for SKS. Leadership, women leadership and alternative leadership development will be given due importance to make the CBO as independent local organization.    
Objectives:
Develop and support peoples’ organizations as their own platform to advocate for their rights.
 
Major activities:

• Facilitate to incorporate all types of disadvantaged and bypassed community people in the CBO
• Organize capacity building training for CBO leaders in organization management
• Training to the CBO on resource mobilization
• Facilitate to link CBO with other service providers
• Develop network of CBOs.

Strategy:
Bangladesh is a highly patriarchal society and gender discrimination is present at all community levels. Women are dependent on men throughout their lives, from father through husbands to sons. While there are constitutional affirmations of gender equality, state legislation and institutions frequently overlook the rights of women. For example, women and young girls are more disadvantaged than men in their access to education, health care and financial assets. Traditionally, women were often discouraged from participating in public life. Women’s access to social, economic, political and legal institutions is mediated by men. Women are mainly recognised only for their reproductive role. However, due to increased poverty and an increased demand for labour, female employment has risen since the mid 1980’s. Men’s authority over women is reinforced by pervasive gender-based violence. SKS should work on changing patriarchal attitude and reducing gender discrimination through community driven initiatives.

Objectives:
Sensitize and activate the community peoples on gender issue.

Major activities:

• Mass awareness creation on gender and development issue.
• Gender gap analysis and sensitization.
• Couples orientation and motivation on gender.
• Organize campaign
• Strengthening watchdog groups.
• Involving with policy-advocacy.

Strategy:
Education is the base of all development initiatives. It is also a pre-condition and indispensable factor for any development initiatives. Many poor people cannot send their children to school in this poverty striking area due to lack of awareness, unaffordable high cost and lack of adequate facilities. Good number of children cannot continue education after completion of primary level.

SKS gives education as one of the high priority sectors. Thus strategy for education programme will mostly focus on people's awareness, provide technical and input support to the existing education institutions, capacity building of local government to follow up and guide education institutions. Necessary training will be provided to the interested teachers, School Managing Committee members and Parents-Teachers Association members on life oriented quality education and management of education institutions. Parents will be made aware to send their children to school and continue education. SKS will continue its existing activities on Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), skill development of adolescent and adults on different issues including disaster risk reduction. Resource centre will be established to provide necessary technical and input support on education programme.

Objective:
Improving pre-primary and public-primary education and their governance system.
 
Major activities:

• Motivate and aware people to send their children to school
• Establish adult and adolescent education centre
• Organize and establish pre-education facilities
• Provide appropriate technical education to the youth/ adolescent
• Organize and conduct training for the local government bodies, SMC, PTA and teachers on quality education in the primary and secondary level.
• Capacitating local government for better functioning of public education system.
• Increasing life oriented education and link education with economic activities.
• Establish smooth working relationship with the govt. education department and update them with the status of education in SKS working area.
• Introduce award system for best school, best teacher and best student
• Establish information centre on education
• Provide support for organizing sports in the schools and support in organizing sports competition.
• Support school/ education department in developing curriculum ensuring quality education in the local context.
• Facilitate to make the learning lively with cultural programme and sports.
• Facilitate to make pre-primary education effective
• Provide education materials to the schools in the poorer communities
• Establish KG school in the selected where there is demand
• Support schools in establishing libraries
• Disaster response to school through renovation, repair, ground raising, supply of furniture and education materials.