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	Bangladesh Barta
		A journey in Bangladesh is typically periods of ludicrous speeds, whizzing past rickshaw pullers and paddy fields, interspersed with death-defying breaking and furious shouting by drivers, over periods of 6 to 12 hours.
		Except, because this is Bangladesh, it was not interpreted as a joke and was instead the catalyst for enormous protests, as people poured onto the streets and marched towards the Prothom Alo offices determined to show their outrage to the cartoonist and the paper.
		Bangladesh at this time desperately needs a powerful and free press if the unelected, military backed government is to be kept in check in any way, and such protests are not helpful.
	www.bangladeshjournal.blogspot.com (5700 words)

	Bangladesh (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bangladesh as one of the 171 Member states is committed to implementing the Habitat Agenda through local, national, sub-regional and regional plans of action and developing policies and programmes for adequate shelter and sustainable human settlements.
		The Government of Bangladesh actively evaluated the established practices, policies and the duties and responsibilities of different Government and semi-government organizations/entities and NGOs and feels that those organizations and entities are characterized by their in-built capabilities and equipped with professionals and technical support with institutional setup to be designated as Local Urban Observatory (LUO).
		NGO, CBO and civil society participation in rural and urban governance affairs is gradually increasing.
	www.un.org /ga/habitat/statements/docs/bangladeshE.html (2129 words)

	International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR)
		A second innovation by the NGOs in Bangladesh was the prioritisation of non-land-based sources of income-generation for this target group, an area which had been substantially neglected by the state.
		NGO initiatives in establishing income-generating activities proved to be an effective alternative to top-down state programmes of rural works, but the extremely low rates of return on such activities have caused many to question their long-term sustainability.
		But NGO relations with their clientele appear to have become increasingly credit oriented, and there are now more restrictive rules (such as savings), all of which mitigate against the feasibility of participatory procedures.
	www.istr.org /conferences/capetown/abstracts/ahmad.html (878 words)

	The Hunger Project-Bangladesh: Enabling Environment 4/94
		The experience in Bangladesh has proven to the world that people living in the conditions of poverty are so resilient, so creative and so determined that when they are offered ANY opportunity to improve their lives, they seize it.
		Bangladesh has pioneered important breakthroughs in human development, and is now spearheading the creation of an enabling environment for the poor to succeed in their own development.
		Bangladesh has pioneered many of the elements which now go into the concept of "enabling environment", but what is missing is a clear, rigorous and widely-shared understanding of this concept that can shape the direction and programs of the institutions of society.
	www.thp.org /bangladesh/1994/index.html (4890 words)

	Bangladesh Directory
		Per capita income in Bangladesh has shot up to $ 599 this fiscal year from the previous year's $523, demonstrating that the country's overall income has significantly gone up despite many odds.
		Bangladesh Film Archive (BFA) is committed to promote and preserve celluloid culture and heritage, and act as a centre for......
		Machizo is a social entrepreneurial multimedia and development organisation in Bangladesh.
	www.bangladeshdir.com (348 words)

	Bangladesh NGOs: main findings
		At the next level, the practice of ´phasing-out´ NGO support to member groups is practised by some NGOs in the hope that the village organisations and their higher-level federations (where formed) will themselves eventually be able to survive without their ´parent´ NGO.
		The concentration of many NGOs and their donor partners, on the need to raise social consciousness and change the structure and values of society, also seems highly unlikely to be sustainable without substantial and long-term external support.
		The NGOs therefore often encounter a discontinuous and sometimes contradictory relationship with Embassy specialists, which they compare unfavourably with the long term, mutually supportive and cumulative relationship established with their CFA partners.
	www.euforic.org /iob/publ/reports/270_mf.htm (2219 words)

	Philanthropy Intermediaries and Voluntarism Promotion : Bangladesh : Philanthropy and the Third Sector
		The Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB) a new apex body of NGOs was formed in a conference of the district representatives' of the National NGO Coordination Committee (NNCC) on April 19 2003 at BRAC Centre.
		NGOs that are running micro-credit operation generates about 30 percent of their operational funds from the service charges they take from their borrowers.
		Bangladesh Fund Raising group (www.bfrg.bangladesh.cf) is a network of NGOs, which was established to promote fundraising in the NGO sector in particular.
	www.asianphilanthropy.org /countries/bangladesh/intermediaries.html (1380 words)

	A Country Paper of Bangladesh on Promoting Dialogue and Collaboration in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Geographically, Bangladesh is located at the North-East of the South Asian sub-continent, bordered by India to its West, Northwest and Eastern frontiers, by Burma to the South-East and by the Bay of Bengal to the South.
		Economically, Bangladesh is characterized by dehumanizing poverty with the vast majority of 60% living below the poverty line due to excessive landlessness (60% of all households are landless), endemic malnutrition (83% of all children below the age of five are malnourished) and massive unemployment (covering 30% of the estimated labor force of 36 million).
		In general, NGOs in Bangladesh focus their work on the very poorest sectors of society such as the landless, women and the rural poor.
	www.fao.org /docrep/006/ad693e/ad693e01.htm (1311 words)

	Top Story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The donor club supports the position of the ADAB and the FNB saying that the current legal and regulatory framework for NGOs in Bangladesh is "sufficient to cover any incidents of maladministration, malfeasance or other wrongdoings by non-governmental organisations, their chief executives or any members of their governing bodies".
		Buttressing the argument in favour of framing such a law, NGO Bureau officials said that the existing law was framed in 1978 when the number of NGOs was just 30 and that on an average they would bring home around Tk 10 crore in foreign aid in a year altogether.
		The government submitted the draft law to the Parliament secretariat on January 27, and it was supposed to be tabled in the 11th session of the eighth Parliament.
	www.independent-bangladesh.com /news/jan/04/04012005ts.htm (789 words)

	NGOs in Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bangladesh has been perhaps the most important hearth on the globe for non-governmental organizations.
		Bangladesh is often seen as the birthplace of the microcredit NGO, namely the Grameen Bank.
		The Comilla District in Bangladesh has also long been the pet project of global developmental theorists and NGOs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NGOs_in_Bangladesh (131 words)

	The State, Laws and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Bangladesh
		As all NGO activities came under the purview of the "President's Secretariat Public Division," NGOs were supposed to be regulated by the NAB instead of the Department of Social Welfare.
		NGOs are required to prepare annual reports on their activities within three months of the end of the financial year and send copies to the NAB, ERD, the relevant Ministry, Divisional Commissioner(s), Deputy Commissioners and the Bangladesh Bank.
		The constitution of the NGO, names and addresses of the members of the executive committee, minutes of the annual general meetings of the NGO and the fee for renewal or registration should accompany renewal applications.
	www.icnl.org /journal/vol3iss3/ar_ahmad2.htm (2734 words)

	Home - Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum
		The passage and adoption by the general assembly of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child gave the impetus to the concerned NGOs in Bangladesh to focus their attention on ensuring the rights of children as embodied in the CRC.
		Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum's key activities include awareness raising, advocacy on child rights, building capacity of member NGOs, research on key issues, representing and lobbying in favor of the interests of children as well as it and its members, providing information and developing a resource base pertaining to child rights issues.
		Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum member NGOs through committed to tackling these problems of children in Bangladesh, cannot alone address the problems, which are already enormous and growing rapidly in size and ramifications.
	www.bsafchild.org /profile.php (1129 words)

	How NGOs Serve the Disadvantaged- Global Policy Forum - NGOs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NGOs have contributed to motivating and educating rural and urban mothers to treat diarrhoea at home and to have their children immunised.
		The NGOs have gradually concentrated on long-term objectives and vision in areas such as:Establishing effective democratic process at the grassrootsPoverty alleviationWomen's rightsEducation and family planning andEnvironment.Today, there is recognition of substantial collaboration between Government and NGOs* in our country.
		NGOs assets are many: flexibility, innovative capacity, ability to bring benefit to beneficiaries in an expedient manner, ability to work in sensitive areas and under-served regions.
	www.globalpolicy.org /ngos/disadv.htm (1002 words)

	Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - A model NGO?
		Whether the explosion in the number of NGOs in Bangladesh represents the wave of the future or a case of foreign aid run riot, is a question that increasingly divides Bangladeshis themselves.
		The 19 storey BRAC Centre (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) is the headquarters of the largest NGO in the world, with over 100,000 people on the payroll, all of them Bangladeshi.
		NGOs in other countries may not grow as big or as quickly as they have in Bangladesh, but they are, no doubt, here to stay.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /features/development/brac021205.html (895 words)

	South Asia Briefing Unit 1 - Bangladesh Civil Society
		Bangladesh has 20,000 local people's groups that receive local and central government financial support, as well as many more that do not.
		Proshika—Proshika is a nationwide NGO that has been actively engaged in formal and non-formal education and skills training to the rural poor.
		Bangladesh is the birthplace of the micro-credit movement, spearheaded by Prof.
	www.thp.org /sac/unit1/bcivil.htm (313 words)

	Bangladesh-Islamists Attack NGOs as Part of Jihad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Bangladesh, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are engaged in poverty alleviation, removing illiteracy and empowering women through micro-credit schemes.
		It forced leaders of the Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB) to convene a meeting where they urged the government to take stern action against all kinds of terrorist activities to keep the ongoing development activities running.
		The bomb attacks on local as well as international NGOs active in Bangladesh is a clear cut attempt of the extremists to destroy anything that stood for progress, modernity, and empowerment of women.
	www.saag.org /papers13/paper1295.html (1720 words)

	Working with NGOs - Bangladesh - ADB.org
		NGOs in Bangladesh such as the Grameen Bank and BRAC have gained international recognition for their innovative approaches to microfinance for employment and income generation, especially for women.
		The primary objective of the project is to strengthen the institutional capacity of female-headed microfinance NGOs so that they can expand their outreach, track their program performance, maintain accounts and related records, tap necessary resources, and provide dynamic leadership in order to provide quality financial services to women clients.
		In addition to extending similar training to female-headed microfinance NGOs not included in the current project, additional technical assistance could be provided in order build the institutional capacity of female-headed NGOs in other sectors, such as those working in the areas of adult education and female literacy, and women’s health and family planning.
	www.adb.org /gender/working/ban002.asp (1681 words)

	The Asia Foundation
		Hasan noted that Bangladesh has some of the world's largest fisheries, and many people depend on fish for their livelihood, in addition fish is an important source of protein for much of the population.
		Of the 230 rivers in Bangladesh, many are shared with India, which further complicates efforts to fight pollution, yet clearly the population's dependence on this crucial resource makes the environmental efforts all the more necessary.
		Hasan expressed how many of the environmental NGOs in Bangladesh are working together to combat these problems by taking their cases directly to the Supreme Court, in order to shorten the resolution time, ensure implementation, and avoid a multiplicity of cases.
	www.asiafoundation.org /Locations/bangladesh_hasan.html (541 words)

	Unitus. Innovative Solutions to Global Poverty
		There are more than 2000 NGOs in Bangladesh and most of them are involved in micro credit financing.
		NGOs have until Feb. 26, 2007 to apply for a microfinance licence.
		The authorities felt the need to monitor non-government financing after Bangladesh was swept by bomb attacks last year by outlawed Islamist groups, said an official, who asked not to be identified.
	blog.unitus.com /?p=251 (369 words)

	Civil Society Watch
		PRIP Trust, an NGO working to build the human and organisational capacity of development actors in civil society, government and business, has been waiting for the government to unblock their funding since 2001.
		The Bangladesh NGO Affairs Bureau completed a series of investigations of the organisation over a two year period, beginning in December 2001.
		Dutta, a high profile activist in Bangladesh, believes that the government is punishing her for speaking out against the systematic rape and harassment of minority women in marginalised communities in southern Bangladesh prior to the October 2001 general elections.
	www.civicus.org /csw/GovernmentsilentlysuffocatingNGOs.htm (574 words)

	::PeaceJournalism.com - The Peace Media Research Center's e-magazine::
		The promoters of NGO are drumbeating the fact that their programs are changing the lives of poor villagers in Bangladesh.
		NGO operation has come to be regarded as a kind of business venture.
		NGOs structure their loans in such a way that maximum recovery is pretty much guaranteed.
	peacejournalism.com /ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=4518 (1211 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The US has already suspended Peace Corps activities in Bangladesh and it's volunteers who were involved in primary activities in schools and youth centres, hospitals and NGOs in Bangladesh are now taking preparations to leave the country.
		The tourists of the relevant countries who are interested to visit Bangladesh have also been asked to cancel their scheduled trip until further clearance from the concerned missions.
		Replying to a query on whether they have any specific plan to support Bangladesh in its fight against terrorism, he said Bangladesh will take its own course as a sovereign country while they were ready to cooperate within their capacity to fight against corruption.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2006/03/16/front.htm (6280 words)

	A Dollar a Day :: Muhit Rahman Interview
		There are a lot of NGOs in Bangladesh, a huge number, doing all kinds of work, some of it useful, some of it borderline useless.
		The government [in Bangladesh] is still not a very mature democracy, and it’s not the most reliable organization in Bangladesh.
		Their programs bring over heavy equipment--you go from place to place in Bangladesh and you will see all these hulks, the skeletons of large excavating equipment, rusting there because some aid program paid for them, somebody granted billions of dollars, which was then used to buy full-priced foreign equipment.
	library.thinkquest.org /05aug/00282/more_rahman.htm (2072 words)

	The Hindu : Bangladesh moves to regulate NGOs
		The Bangladesh Prime Minister, Begum Khaleda Zia's Government is determined to regulate the country's Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), by amending the relevant law of 1978 under which these bodies, mostly funded from abroad, operate.
		But, for the first time, NGOs, irrespective of their relations with the Government, have taken a swipe at the ruling BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami coalition for its move to amend the law.
		Both the Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB) formed recently by perceived pro-Government NGOs, and the Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB), known to be pro-Opposition, termed the proposed bill "a blueprint" to regulate them.
	www.hindu.com /2004/02/14/stories/2004021400311500.htm (399 words)

	Bangladesh: Sunderban Biodiversity Conservation Project questioned
		The SBCP Watch Group is an environmental group of four local NGOs --Actionaid Bangladesh, Rupantar, JJS and Lokaj-- established in 2000 with the purpose of monitoring the activities carried out by the so-called Sunderban Biodiversity Conservation Project (SBCP).
		In a survey conducted by NGOs, it has been found that shrimp fry collection is the only occupation that is carried on in the Sunderban throughout the year.
		As a result of decrease in the availability of rice straw for thatching, resulting from the decrease in agriculture, wild hay from the Sunderbans is being over-exploited.
	www.wrm.org.uy /bulletin/66/Bangladesh.html (683 words)

	French NGOS - French Embassy in Bangladesh (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NGOs from France, the Netherlands and Sweden regularly send highly specialised teams of doctors and surgeons who come for free to perform “miraculous” operations for those populations without access to basic health services.
		The NGO built the school, selects and trains teachers chosen from the community and puts together a learning program specially adapted to children in the Chars.
		In the coastal area of Cox’s Bazaar (South East of Bangladesh), thousands of children are suffering from important deformations of the lower limbs due to a severe form of rickets, whose cause is still not well known.
	www.ambafrance-bd.org /article.php3?id_article=296 (2084 words)

	NGOs and Democracy - Iftekhar Sayeed
		In Bangladesh, therefore, it was not the students, but the donors who gave the General the push.
		It would thus be naive to think that the advent of NGOs necessarily reflects a transition from the ponderous world of state bureaucracy to that of more flexible ‘civic’ associations operating beyond the clutch of the state.
		Indeed, there is very little doubt that NGOs spend an excessive proportion of their budget on furnishing their members with sophisticated and expensive equipment (from computers to four-wheel drives), leaving all too little for the development projects which justify the work of the NGOs in the first place”.
	southerncrossreview.org /47/sayeed.htm (2034 words)

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