1. NGO’s In Bangladesh
Md.Rezwoanur Haque
ID:192-198-801
BGMEA University OF Fashion And Technology
Department of Textile Engineering
Sectio;04
2. History OF NGO’s In Bangladesh
In 1972, Mr. Fazle Hasan Abed founded the Bangladesh Rural Advancement
Committee (BRAC) to resettle returning refugees who had fled to India during
the independence war. Since the independence of Bangladesh NGO’s have
been formed one after another in small initiatives. NGO’s in Bangladesh are
BRAC, “ASA”, “GRAMEEN BANK’’, “TMSS”, “PROSIKHA’’, “SHAKTI
FOUNDATION”, “BURO BANGLA’’ etc.
Now Nearly 26,000 NGOs in different areas are working in Bangladesh of
which some specially working for Children and Youth while some are working
for entrepreneurship development.
3. Types OF NGO’s
According to world Bank NGO’s have been Classified into Four
Catagories.
They are:1.Charitable NGO’s ; Service oriented NGO’s.
2. Participatory NGOs and Class Organization : Empowering NGOs.
3. Community Based Organization : Community Development Oriented
Organization.
4. International NGO: NGOs which are working in more that one country.
4. The main activities undertaken by
NGOs are:
Organization of literacy and out of school
education programmes;
Organization of saving and credit groups;
Organization of income generating programme
to poor people through skills training;
Learning materials development and publication;
Capacity building of local organizations;
Organization of seminars for awareness building
among the community people.
5. Development of NGOs in Bangladesh
The major focus on development or
poverty alleviation through micro credit.
Bangladesh received global appreciation
for micro credit.
The Grameen Bank received noble prize.
In this way, little by little every NGO,s is moving forward day by day. BRAC
and ASA in particular are playing a good role our country and abroad.
6. Advantages of the NGOs
Programmes in Poverty
Alleviation
NGOs has strong network at the grass root level
and can easily reach to the poor.
Local poor people feel comfortable to
communicate with NGOs.
NGOs can deliver the micro credit to the real
poor.
NGOs can easily monitor the progress of the
poor.
NGOs has great contribution to women
empowerment.
7. Criticism of the NGOs
Activities
Interest rate charged by the NGOs on micro
credit is
extremely high.
NGOs often extort people to collect loan and
interest.
Amount of loan is so small, it is hard to become
self
sustain.
NGO activities are totally dependent on foreign
loans, thus lack sustainability.
NGOs activities are destroying local
volunteerism and making people more dependent.
Fund is gradually reducing due to diversion of
donors to other poor countries.
