DIPTO Foundation Profiles

The term ‘Empowerment’ has a deep-rooted meaning, which will be used by DIPTO (which stands for Discipline, Integrity, Productivity, Transparency & Openness in Bangla the word means Alokito, Ujjal, Prokashito or Tâjomoy) in accordance with its multidisciplinary interventions. The prime focus of DIPTO is to enlighten the marginalized groups and victims of violence through awareness building, skill development, psycho-social support and employment generation activities, in order to make them self-reliant.

DIPTO is committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and establishing human rights. The major focus of DIPTO is to strengthen the voice, participation, influence and impact on women rights by advocating organizations and movements nationally, regionally and internationally to effectively promote the rights of women.

This Foundation will focus on institutional capacity building for improved access to services, social awareness and mobilization programs for ensuring successful social, political and economic empowerment. Through this advancement of women, employment generation, livelihood support and overall empowerment of marginalized women and victims of violence will be developed. To achieve this goal incorporating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approaches will be taken as one of the strategies. This unique intervention in the social sector will aim at obtaining support through fund from government, private (Development Partners) and banking sector. This model will function to provide support for marginalized groups and victims of violence in the community.