ERD meeting with NGO Federation on Resource Mobilization and Management: 12 January 2014
A team of experts from the Economic Relations Department (RED) of the Ministry of Finance in a meeting at the NGO Federation on 12 January 2014 discussed mobilization, management and monitoring of domestic and external resources. The Ministry is initiating a study to assess the level of development finance inflows to map the current resources, make projection for future medium-term funding and explore innovative form of development finance.
The team included senior ERD official and experts from UNDP. The Chair of NGO Federation Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim, Director Finance of BURO Bangladesh and other representatives of BURO and RDRS took part in the discussion.
Cabinet approves National Policy on Elderly People: 17 November 2013
The draft of the National Policy on Elderly People 2013 has been approved by the Cabinet in its weekly meeting held on 17 November. The policy recognizes those aged 60 and above as ‘senior citizens’ of the country and ensures their rights and welfare. It highlights dignified, healthy and safe social life for the elderly people providing them with ID and health cards, reserved seats in buses, trains, steamers, other public transports and gradually providing tickets at reduced rates, and establishing old homes.
The Forum for the Rights of the Elderly (FRE-B) of which RIC, an FNB member organization is the Secretary-General, advocated the cause of the elderly for a long time since 2003 and was involved in preparing the draft. A seminar on the rights of the elderly was organized by FRE-B and NGO Federation on 13 October last which was participated, among others, by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the Chief Guest the Secretary Ministry of Social Welfare and National Professor Dr. M. R. Khan as the Special Guests. Presided over by the Chair of NGO Federation Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim, the seminar reiterated the rights of the elderly and urged for finalising the national policy for the elderly. The Secretary had given the assurance that it would be finalised soon.