A. Strengthen Agricultural Labour Labour Rights Initiatives
A large number of agricultural labourers become unemployed and many of them migrated to the neighbouring city and country to earn their livelihood as the consequences of commercial shrimp farming, however, a good number agricultural labourer still are struggling to manage their livelihood in the working are of LEDARS. Existence of surpluses labourers in the area reduced their bargaining capacity to claim fair wages from their employers and thus the agriculture landowners or shrimp farmers employ those labourers paying lower wages. In this context, LEDARS formed “Krishi Sromik Federation” to protect their labour rights. Currently the organization has been implementing a project to protect agricultural labours rights with the funding support from Manusher Jonno Foundation since October 2006.

B. Rights Alliance in the southwest coastal region
LEDARS has been leading an alliance to ensure rights of the poor and marginal people through building capacity of the NGOs in southwest coastal region of Bangladesh on rights based programming.