Actionist Foundation is a not-for-profit organization working to promote mental health awareness and mental well-being in Bangladesh. Broadly the organization works to gather students, the youth and the professionals to openly discuss the issue and create awareness regarding both. Since 2019, it is committed to establishing impact-driven & lasting welfare in society by ensuring equitable opportunities for people from all spheres of life. Currently, the organization is actively working towards raising awareness regarding mental health, as people are slowly shifting their mindset about openly discussing, addressing and accepting the matter. The organization has brought together experts who are trying to caution people of mental well-being issues by expressing their valuable observations, facilitating discussion, providing rudimentary suggestions and generating directives through workshops, webinars and seminars. With the reported current increase of mental health issues especially among the youth population in the country, Actionist Foundation wants to drive a significant impact on the overall population of Bangladesh. By this time Actionist Foundation has identified several reasons that causes mental depression and illness of people which are planned to addressed as a priority basis.

Actionist Foundation aims to gather students and young professionals to gradually create a platform or forum for them to openly discuss mental well-being. We also aim to provide the opportunity for open communication among students, young professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, and the experts from different disciplines. Through this step we want to motivate students and young professionals; to manage the challenges in life and find mental models & guidelines to face them. Actionist foundation has already made notable progress with its previous works. It has successfully managed 21 Webinars, 10 Psychological First Aid Training, and 5 Self-care Training Sessions. Through its Flagship Project ‘Monodhoni’, it has provided Tele counselling Services to than 12,000+ people at free of cost during COVID Pandemic abiding by the motto ‘Every Mind is Important’ where the number is 21000+ till date. Through our upcoming programs, Actionist Foundation would like to bring our society’s leaders & icons to the foreground. By engaging youth to promote their readiness & well-being we believe we can greatly bolster our government’s ‘Vision 2041’.

Vision and Mission

Vision: Providing access to holistic mental health care and well-being for the citizen of Bangladesh.

Mission: Creating pathways to ensure mental health and well-being awareness, mental health care and providing supports to the all class of people in aspect of age, gender, profession, income group, autism etc. with organizational and institutional support to the citizens of Bangladesh.

Values:

Actionist Foundation encourages the following values to be practiced both at individual and organizational level.

  • Believe in Human Being
  • Respect for human dignity
  • Integrity and reliability in all operations
  • Social Justice
  • Equality and Equity
  • Gender Mainstreaming
  • Wholeness and Inclusiveness

Guiding Principles

  • Utilization of local wisdom and resources.
  • Encouragement of innovation and creativity.
  • Prioritizing quality.
  • Enhancing coordination and networking.
  • Accepting challenges

Issue of Interest

  • Mental Health & Well-being
  • Women Empowerment
  • Inclusiveness
  • Addressing Climate Change
  • Skill based Education
  • Productivity Enhancement

Management and planning

Results from the Actionist Foundation’s internal reform initiative to improve its planning, monitoring, and evaluation capabilities as well as its human resources, financial, and administrative management have started to show. There has been progress in standardizing a predictable year planning process, beginning to increase member capacity, and offering direction on results-based planning and monitoring. However, there is still need for improvement in the creation of lessons learned and best practices.

Decision making

Actionist foundation believes that the decision making is a key part of an (administration) Administrative bodies activities, it permeates though all managerial function such as planning, organization, direction and control. Making decisions requires thought and deliberation before action, and it is a necessary component of our job. Our organization makes decisions in accordance with its goals through its policies, programs, and strategies.

 

Structure and Governing board

The Governing Council of the organization is responsible for the conduct of the organization’s General operations, performing duties under power delegated by the council. As provided in the Article of constitution. The Governing Council meets regularly at headquarters in Dhaka, council serve Audit and budget for programmed, development effectiveness, Governance and Administrative matters. The administration and financial control of Actionist Foundation is vested in the governing Council which comprise of the Hon’ble Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Project Director, Program Office and Members. The General Secretary is the chief executive (Executive Director) of the organization.