Established in 1991, Nari Uddug Kendra (NUK) is a national non-government women’s organization, mandated to promote gender equality, human rights and fostering personal and political empowerment of women and girls in Bangladesh. It provides capacity building support, networking and human rights advocacy to women and her relevant organizations.

During NUK‘s journey over the last 25 years, it has gained substantial and diversity of experience in implementing and developing model projects in the gender dimension. Due to its uncompromising spirit of gender equality, NUK has been recognized as advocate of gender equality and a potential organization of pro-women and pro-girls organization. Since its inception, NUK has been supported by international foundations, missions, bilateral and multilateral agencies. As a progressive organization and a Centre of Excellence for women empowerment, it has also been receiving support and cooperation from the individuals, government agencies, financial institutions and the corporate bodies.

Vision

NUK‘s long-term vision is to empower women and girls to make them aware about their individual rights, train those to act collectively and promote gender equality through education, networking and advocacy at the state, society and community levels.

This vision is aligned with national development efforts contained in the Government of Bangladesh’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (2005-7) and Millennium Goals, which emphasises participatory governance and the advancement of women.

Development Goal

NUK‘s immediate development goal is to support women’s leadership and representation in local government bodies, education institues, workplace and national level with sufficient critical mass to affect social norms, development policy and programmes in favour of women.

Principles

NUK will adopt the following principles in its work and use these to make strategic choices about the kind of activities it will engage in. These principles are independence, inclusion, innovation, non-confrontation, adding value, empowerment and value for money .