Business Desk :
The Economic Relations Division (ERD) under the Ministry of Finance will hold a two-day flagship event- ‘Bangladesh Development Forum'(BDF)- on January 29-30 to highlight the formulation of the ensuing eighth Five Year Plan and the ways forward of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before the development partners.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the event as the chief guest at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) of the capital while Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will chair its inaugural session.
“BDF 2020 has been dedicated to the Birth Centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The slogan of the upcoming BDF is “Effective Partnership for Sustainable Development”,” said ERD Secretary Monowar Ahmed while addressing a pre-event press conference at the NEC-2 in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Monday.
He said the BDF would be very important for the government and also for the development partners as Bangladesh is now graduating from the LDC status and it is expected to enter the higher middle income country status within the next few years. The previous BDF events were held in 2010, 2015, and in 2018.
“This BDF will have a different character as Bangladesh is eying to frame the next plan of the country (8th FYP) after coming out of the LDC status. Besides, this BDF will have wider high-level participation from the development partners as Vice Presidents from World Bank, ADB and JICA will attend the meet,” he said.
“To properly monitor the implementation of the decisions of the BDF, the government would frame a specific committee or task force which would monitor the implementation of the BDF outcomes or decisions through time-bound action plan,” Monowar said while answering to a question.
Replying to another question, he said the ongoing graduation period of Bangladesh from the LDC status would not affect the country to such extent for realizing official development assistance (ODA) since the government has been able to successfully face the LDC graduation challenges.
“There might be some impact on the ODA due to LDC graduation, but we’re not concerned at all as all of our development partners are now very much eager to support us,” he added.
The Economic Relations Division (ERD) under the Ministry of Finance will hold a two-day flagship event- ‘Bangladesh Development Forum'(BDF)- on January 29-30 to highlight the formulation of the ensuing eighth Five Year Plan and the ways forward of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before the development partners.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the event as the chief guest at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) of the capital while Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will chair its inaugural session.
“BDF 2020 has been dedicated to the Birth Centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The slogan of the upcoming BDF is “Effective Partnership for Sustainable Development”,” said ERD Secretary Monowar Ahmed while addressing a pre-event press conference at the NEC-2 in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Monday.
He said the BDF would be very important for the government and also for the development partners as Bangladesh is now graduating from the LDC status and it is expected to enter the higher middle income country status within the next few years. The previous BDF events were held in 2010, 2015, and in 2018.
“This BDF will have a different character as Bangladesh is eying to frame the next plan of the country (8th FYP) after coming out of the LDC status. Besides, this BDF will have wider high-level participation from the development partners as Vice Presidents from World Bank, ADB and JICA will attend the meet,” he said.
“To properly monitor the implementation of the decisions of the BDF, the government would frame a specific committee or task force which would monitor the implementation of the BDF outcomes or decisions through time-bound action plan,” Monowar said while answering to a question.
Replying to another question, he said the ongoing graduation period of Bangladesh from the LDC status would not affect the country to such extent for realizing official development assistance (ODA) since the government has been able to successfully face the LDC graduation challenges.
“There might be some impact on the ODA due to LDC graduation, but we’re not concerned at all as all of our development partners are now very much eager to support us,” he added.
