Foster a social transformation process through social movements on the rights to health and education, gender justice, building social harmony and peace, and environmental development, by engaging citizens. Inclusion of youths in the process of social transformation and empowering them with social responsibility, leadership, skills, and employment.

As part of social development, WAVE places prime focus on ensuring that everyone has access to necessities – health care, nutrition, education, and eventually equitable development. Women and youth leadership development, life skills, professional development, and empowerment are considered the drivers of social development. In line with the strategies, the program provides us with strategic directions for innovating, designing, implementing, and monitoring the initiatives for social development. Under this program, we facilitate projects and activities on education, health, peace building, social cohesion, and inclusion of excluded populations, disability and development, elderly people, women leadership development and many more. The initiatives include education programs for out-of-school children, improving the quality of life for the elderly, and many more. Improved nutrition and health services, as well as youth participation in sports and cultural activities, are also among the projects implemented for the program. We prioritize developing youth skill sets and empowering them with leadership capabilities, life skills, and with occupational skills. Due to unemployment, a lack of motivation and frustration is observed among this large number of the youth group. Furthermore, the existing education system is unable to meet the demands of the job market. It is vital to create a practical and futuristic plan for overall youth development that will allow them to tap into the potential of society. The main objective of our youth-centric activities is to provide them with the required education, knowledge, and practical skills to empower them in their socio-economic context and to advance their personal development. The projects undertaken for youth development facilitate young people to emerge as entrepreneurs, develop leadership skills, participate in climate-focused programs, and create their platforms.

All mentioned initiatives maintain functional relations with the overarching social development and youth empowerment to reach WAVE’s mission. Overall, the program follows a holistic approach targeting crucial aspects of human life including health, education, youth development, community development, etc. This is a people-driven integrated development program aiming at accelerating sustainable development.

ENRICH is a program conducted at the grassroots level focusing for overall household development of the poor. The program targets poor families, working with them to enhance and maximize the utilization of their resources and skills. ENRICH aims to alleviate poverty not only through income generation but through a holistic approach targeting other crucial aspects of human life including health, education, youth development, community development, etc. This is a people-driven integrated development pursuit aiming at accelerating sustainable development. It also helps and creates mechanism for them to work with relevant institutions and larger communities for effectively preparing for responses to natural disasters and put in place a new and effective method of GO-NGO collaboration for development from below. WAVE implements the project in Jibonnagar & Damurhuda Upazilla in Chuadanga district and Singair Upazilla in Manikgonj district with its own fund and support from PKSF.

Elderly People Program

Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has formulated a policy titled ‘National Elderly People/Senior Citizen Policy 2013’ to ensure a dignified, poverty-free, sound and secure social life for the elderly citizens of our country. To that end, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation-PKSF has designed a project named ‘Elderly People’s Program’ to implement through its partner NGOs. The initiatives under this project are; establishing social centre for the senior citizens; introducing and providing old allowance; bestowing honour to the senior citizen as the best service providers of the nation; introducing special credit and training for ultra-poor senior citizen; initiating geriatric nursing facilities and organizing training for developing Para-Physiotherapist and provide special social service package for the senior citizens. WAVE Foundation implements this project in 07 Unions of ENRICH working area & Darsana Pourashava under Jibonnagar & Damurhuda Upazilla in Chuadanga district and Singair Upazilla in Manikgonj district with its own fund and support of PKSF.

Adolescent Program

The Adolescent Program aims to enhance awareness and exercise values by the targeted adolescent; leadership and life skill development; improvement of nutrition and health services and advancement of sports and cultural activities. To foster the development of targeted adolescent girls & boys the project intervenes the Club and Forum formation; organize workshop on menstrual health management including sanitary napkin distribution;  organize nutrition camps and ideal cooking exercise; facilitate training on leadership and career development; organize debate & sports competition;  undertake social action to combat the violence against women, child marriage, forced marriages, dowry etc.; organize campaign against drug, corruption and terrorism etc. WAVE implements the project in 10 Upazillas in Chuadanga and Kushtia district with its own fund and support from PKSF.

The LoakMorcha project aims to build capacity of the organized citizen groups so that they can raise voice to the local service (health, education, agriculture, social safety net and protect & prevent violence against women) delivery institutions & local administration; facilitating lobbing, dialogue, sharing meetings, public hearing, social audit etc. by the organized citizen groups to increase the access of mass community in mentioned GoB services and to increase the responsiveness of the local government, local level GoB service delivery institutions & local administration towards pro-people services. For achieving the program goal & objectives, the project intervenes the formation & awareness of ward level 54 Community Groups; capacity building training for Union Parishad Representatives; functioning of relevant Union Standing Committees); formation and capacity building of 21 People’s Alliances (LoakMorcha) and mobilize them to undertaking advocacy initiatives towards responsive public services; conducting social audit and sharing findings with the respective GoB service providers & local administration; National level policy advocacy on field findings etc. WAVE implements the project in 18 Unions of Jibonnagar (08 UPs) & Singair (10 UPs) Upazillas in Chuadanga and Manikgonj district with its own fund and support from PKSF.

Youth Assembly (YA) is a platform of WAVE aims to empower young people and create a stronger community. The Assembly promotes youth rights and development as well as facilitates their active participation in social development. It brings the youths in a common space to broaden their views and values towards the positive social actions and changes. This space includes both physical and virtual platform for leveraging youths with the advents of learning from each other and fueling their actions. YA is conducting multi-faceted activities to accelerate youth participation in socio-economic development. The YA organized National Youth Rights Assembly to focus on the formulation of ‘Effective National Youth Policy for Youth Rights and Development’ as well as aiming at uniting youth under single umbrella to establish youth rights, particularly, right to education, skill and employment. Youth Assembly undertakes initiatives in different phases to combat the coronavirus and its resulting crisis through successfully running its ‘Youth Against COVID19 Campaign’. Being a potential portion of the community, YA believes if combined efforts can be assured from every part of the society, it won’t be impossible to recover from any crisis that makes us fall apart.

The out of school children program aims ‘to create second chance education opportunities for out of school children ages between 8-14 years (dropped out or no enrolled in school yet) and bring them into mainstreaming education through non-formal education program’ and ‘to transform the students into productive citizen through providing technical or quality training those who successfully completion of the primary education’. For achieving those objectives, the program intervenes to conduct the baseline survey, learner selection, necessary materials supply, establishment and running of the learning center, formation and functioning of Center Management Committees-CMC, facilitate training & refresher training for the teachers, conduct grade final and PEC exams, organize sports & cultural events, day observance, conduct regular monitoring etc. WAVE implements the project in 02 Upazillas in Chuadanga district with financial support of Bureau of Non-Formal Education under the Ministry of Primary & Mass Education, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.