Bangladesh, a small country with a little territory but it has a large population of around 160 million of whom 67 percent are landless. About 80 percent of them are mostly dependent on agriculture for their livelihood and employment. With an average per capital income of US$1220 Bangladesh ranks among the poorest countries in the world. The largest segments of rural women are engaged in agricultural production and related activities. Its economy is an agro-based on which suffers from devastating natural calamities almost every year in the country exact a great magnitude of lives and crops, especially flood of 1970, 1988, 1998, 2007 and cyclone of 1991 took a heavy toll of lives and property, with a view to improving the quality of people the Govt. of Bangladesh has embarked upon massive development programs throughout the country, NGOs have also been contributing a lot specially in achieving empowerment of the poor men and women, poverty elimination, democratization process ensuring good governance towards sustainable development. With a same view, ABSEs efforts are being continued to alleviate the suffering and poverty of the poor and distressed.

Association for Better Social Expectation (ABSE) is one of the non-governments, non-profitable organization in Bangladesh. It came into existence in the period of the devastating flood of 2007 as relief and welfare organization. Later on, it starts to work with the view of Rights Based Approach (RBA). Now, ABSE is a non-government development organization who dreams of a society where most of the people become an organized force and struggle for their rights and meaningful social change. ABSE believes in working together in a spirit of mutual trust and equality for proper human development. The organization also believes on non-directive, bottom-up, target group oriented and participatory development approach and acts as a catalyst its concerned people.