Our work

Transforming lives through nine integrated thematic areas for resilience, dignity, and self-reliance.

With over three decades of experience, ADI delivers a proven, women-centered development model that transforms the lives of poor and underprivileged households across Bangladesh. Founded and led by a woman Executive Director, ADI places women’s voices, leadership, and agency at the heart of its work.

Through inclusive microcredit linked with climate-resilient agriculture, fisheries, and livestock, women build sustainable livelihoods, food security, and income stability. Strategic investments in WASH, healthcare, education for children, and youth development protect human capital and break intergenerational poverty, while community infrastructure and humanitarian response enable households to withstand shocks without losing progress.

Together, these ten interconnected thematic areas create lasting impact—strengthening women’s resilience, leadership, and self-reliance. Partnering with ADI means investing in an experienced, women-led organization with a holistic pathway from vulnerability to resilience across Bangladesh.

Extending inclusive microfinance to women-headed, extreme poor households for building resilience, dignity, and agency.


Equipping extreme poor households with fast-growing, climate-resilient agricultural techniques to enhance nutrition, income, and resilience.

Strengthening resilience, nutrition, and income through improved fisheries skills, practices, and harvests.


Strengthening resilience, nutrition, and income through improved livestock skills, services, and practices.

Expanding access to safe drinking water, hygienic latrines, and healthy behaviors through community engagement, infrastructure development, and behavioral change initiatives.

Providing inclusive educational support, parental engagement, and co-curricular activities to improve retention, learning outcomes, and well-rounded development of children in underserved communities.

Equipping youth with leadership, entrepreneurship, and civic skills to contribute meaningfully to their communities.

Improving maternal, child, and overall health through doorstep services, clinics, and health education.

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Join us to better lives and create beautiful future

Email us at adi.bd.org@gmail.com