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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
Government Watch: the executive, tracked over time.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
NGO Watch
rural development · Dhaka
The organization is focused on the systemic marginalization of local organizations and the need for equitable localization of funding and decision-making in humanitarian and climate sectors.
COAST and civil society leaders demanded the withdrawal of the proposed Microcredit Bank Ordinance–2025.
COAST released its Annual Report 2025 titled Build Resilience for A Better Journey.
COAST organized a press conference in Dhaka highlighting the crisis of climate change and lack of healthcare in coastal communities.
Executive Director Rezaul Karim Chowdhury published an open letter criticizing the lack of localization in the Rohingya response.
COAST co-organized an international webinar on lightning risk management in South Asia.
COAST participated in a human chain event for World Environment Day to demand the protection of water bodies.
COAST and rights groups demanded a climate adaptation plan and increased fund allocation in the national climate budget.
Began operations 1998 in Charfesson upazila, Bhola, following a project of an international NGO. Rezaul Karim Chowdhury has led it as Executive Director since formation. Registered with the Microcredit Regulatory Authority as COAST Trust on 19 Nov 2007; renamed COAST Foundation, acknowledged by NGOAB 6 Jun 2021. HQ at Metro Melody, Shyamoli, Dhaka-1207. Annual Report 2023 exists at coastbd.net but the PDF was not machine-readable, so financial figures (loan portfolio, expenditure, staff, branch counts) left null rather than estimated.