Staff Reporter :
The government of Japan has extended a grant of approximately Tk 70 lakh ($85,247) to a Bangladeshi NGO to implement a human security project at grassroots level.
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Naoki Ito signed the grant contracts for the grassroots human security project with Executive Director of National Development Programme (NDP) Md Alauddin Khan at the Embassy of Japan on Tuesday.
NDP was awarded the grant for “The Project for Construction of the Loom Training Center in Sirajganj district”.
Sirajganj is famous for loom fabrics in Bangladesh. However, this sector does not yield competitive market price due to lack of skills, according to the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka.
NDP has been working in Sirajganj for the purpose of reducing poverty for a long time.
Under the fund, NDP will construct the loom skill- training centre, and install equipment for practical training.
Japan has supported 194 NGO projects through its grant assistance for grassroots human security projects since 1989 with a view to enhancing economic and social human security in the grassroots levels, said the embassy.
The total sum of these grants extended to NGOs in Bangladesh todate amounts approximately to $15 million.
The government of Japan has extended a grant of approximately Tk 70 lakh ($85,247) to a Bangladeshi NGO to implement a human security project at grassroots level.
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Naoki Ito signed the grant contracts for the grassroots human security project with Executive Director of National Development Programme (NDP) Md Alauddin Khan at the Embassy of Japan on Tuesday.
NDP was awarded the grant for “The Project for Construction of the Loom Training Center in Sirajganj district”.
Sirajganj is famous for loom fabrics in Bangladesh. However, this sector does not yield competitive market price due to lack of skills, according to the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka.
NDP has been working in Sirajganj for the purpose of reducing poverty for a long time.
Under the fund, NDP will construct the loom skill- training centre, and install equipment for practical training.
Japan has supported 194 NGO projects through its grant assistance for grassroots human security projects since 1989 with a view to enhancing economic and social human security in the grassroots levels, said the embassy.
The total sum of these grants extended to NGOs in Bangladesh todate amounts approximately to $15 million.
