Concern for Environmental Development And Research (CEDAR) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, nongovernmental development organization formed in 1989 in Bangladesh. It has three core objectives- freedom from poverty, freedom from ignorance and freedom from oppression. The organization visualizes a Bangladesh free from hunger, poverty, mal-governance, environmental degradation and all forms of exploitation based on age, sex, religion and ethnicity and a society which is economically productive, equitable and genuinely democratic within 2020.