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The acronym INCIDIN Bangladesh stands for Integrated Community & Industrial Development Initiative in Bangladesh. INCIDIN Bangladesh launched its program in 1995, as a research organization, conducting Participatory Action Research (PAR) with an Adivashi community (Garo ethnic community) in central Bangladesh. At the same year we have undertaken PAR with children known as “Bihari” (the community migrated from Bihar, India, before 1947, and opted for to be citizen of Pakistan, which never accepted them) who are working in weaving trade. This was to understand the impact of the “Harkin’s Bill” (against child labor) on the working children in Bangladesh. Around the same time, another PAR was undertaken with the sexually exploited street children of Dhaka City. It is important to mention that in both cases of PAR with children was an unconventional initiative, as the participants were not the “target” of mainstream NGOs in Bangladesh.

INCIDIN Bangladesh is a research, advocacy and capacity building organization. INCIDIN Bangladesh is a value based non-hierarchically structured highly dynamic learning organization, both in program implementation and in internal process of organizational growth. Strategic thinking, ideological preferences and emphasis of quality outcome are the ‘logic’ of its organizational growth.