Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies  (BCAS) is an independent, non-profit, non-government policy, research and implementation institute working on Sustainable Development (SD) at local, national, regional and global level.

To achieve the vision of BCAS to promote people-centered sustainable development by exchanging and maximizing knowledge among the different actors and stakeholders, to generate innovative ideas and approaches adaptive to socio-cultural, economic and bio-physical systems and initiation of community actions through participatory research and effective policy advocacy over hundred full-time and part-time staff among whom there are two dozens of senior professionals, more than three dozens of mid level professionals and researchers work at BCAS at different capacities under ten active divisions working on Natural Resources Management (NRM), Environment and Development, Renewable and Conventional Energy, Social and Economic Issues, Trade and Sustainable Development, Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Strategies, Global Change and Human Dimensions, Policy Analysis and Training, Governance and Advocacy, Publication and Outreach. Various projects and activities are carried out through out the year under each division.