Organization
Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)
Mission
BCAS believes that exchange of knowledge and people's wisdom are the most cost effective agents to bring about changes for sustainable development.
Organizational Expertise
Adoption / Behavior Change, Capacity Building, Climate/Environment, Gender / Womens Empowerment, Humanitarian/Emergency Response, Livelihoods, Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy Development, Research
Other Organizational Expertise
Climate Change mitigation
Technologies & Fuels
Biogas, Biomass (Ag. Residue, Processed Biomass, etc.), Charcoal, Coal, Solar
Clean Cooking Activities
Maximizing knowledge among different actors and stakeholders, generation of innovative ideas and approaches adaptive to socio-cultural, economic, and bio-physical systems and, initiation of community actions through participatory research and effective policy advocacy can promote people-centred sustainable development for local, national, regional and international communities.
Following are the key missions of the institute: to develop ideas and models aiming at resource management, environment and development as an approach towards sustainable development; to ensure people's and community participation in planning, implementation and management of resources to enhance resilience of natural and human system; to direct and formulate policy and programmes through gathering and updating information and knowledge by empirical researches and actions; to undertake collaborative research with scientists in both national and international organizations to share knowledge, innovation and experience; to motivate and facilitate private sectors in cleaner production, pollution management, sustainable trade for improving inner and outer environmental conditions; to strengthen and build capacity of civil society, private and public sectors in the areas of natural resource management, environment, trade, human resource development and sustainable development through enhancing knowledge and access to resources; to provide advice to various agencies and departments of the Government of Bangladesh, development partners and international institutions on NRM, SD, energy, Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), environment and poverty; to enhance public awareness and influence policy decisions through information dissemination, policy dialogue, advocacy, networking, training, workshop, seminar and symposium etc.; to bring out publications including books, newsletters and monographs and to disseminate the results and findings of various researches and initiatives; and to undertake inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research activities using a set of methodologies.
Partnership
We have an expert who has extensive knowledge to build up a business plan for commercialization of cookstoves.
Regions Operating In
South Asia
Country Based In
Bangladesh
Address
House No. 10
Road No. 16A
DHAKA, DH 1212
Website
Primary Point of Contact
Name: Mr. Abdur Rahim
Title: Project Development Manager
Email: abdur.rahim@bcas.net
Phone: 880-2-8818124
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