Enhancing integrity in NGO activities along with ensuring better GO-NGO coordination are crucial for ensuring successful implementation of uplift activities to attain the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The views were expressed at a meeting of the Upazila NGO Coordination Committee organised by Kawnia upazila administration at its conference room in the upazila town in Rangpur on Wednesday afternoon. Presided over by Kawnia Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Ulfat Ara Begum, executives of different NGOs conducting development and service delivery activities in the upazila, civil society members and local journalists participated in the event.
Junior Consultant (Surgery) of Kawnia Upazila Health Complex Dr. Khondker Mominul Islam, representatives Abdur Rahman of RDRS Bangladesh, Uday Dewan of Islamic Relief, Rezaul Karim of Leprosy Mission and Irene Akhter of the Asia Foundation addressed.
The UNO discussed objectives of arranging the meeting aiming at properly implementing the government’s integrity strategies to establish transparency and accountability in NGO activities.
She narrated tremendous successes already achieved by different NGOs in all sectors of development for backward, poor and distressed people in Kawnia upazila like elsewhere in the country.
She specially stressed on ensuring proper selection of beneficiaries, coordination and transparency to overcome the tendency of avoiding prevailing rules in conducting activities by some NGOs damaging image of other NGOs working with reputation.
The participating NGO representatives expressed their firm commitment to bring more transparency in their activities and ensure better coordination to avoid overlapping problem and ensure reaching services to backward people for their development.
