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[chottala.com] Bangladesh: CDMP Project forcing NGOs to Corruption?

CDMP Project forcing NGOs to Corruption?

 

Greeting from ADAB Chittagong Chapter!

As we are well-known the Bangladesh Government under the MoFDM has been implementing Comprehensive Disaster Management Project (CDMP) in different coastal districts of Bangladesh. Before they are accused and have criticisms to NGO recruitment by the CDMP for CRA project. Now CDMP has open another window to justify the NGOs in corruption and accordingly CDMP invites EOI from Union Disaster Management Committee (UDMCs) on last 29.8.2008 at daily Prothom Alo. In the advertisement CDMP says each UDMC submit 02 projects and recruit NGO as technical partner of the project. After onward NGOs are going to mange UDMCs by any how and maintain unfair business to getting chance. Some corporate NGOs are trying to manage all the UDMCs and there is competition for unfair business.. What will be happen if the policy is implement, NGOs will creak-down to link the Union Parishads and their bad practices, 10% services charges will provide by UP to NGOs. We know from the independent of our country UPs are corrupted with out money nobody works here, but now NGOs are getting contract under UP. Is it really suitable for NGOs? Or NGOs forcing to link with UPs corruption? Many corporate & Dhaka based NGOs who have close contact with CDMP PIU's consultants are making lobby for getting chance to work as technical partner of UDMCs. At the same way many NGOs were selected as partner of CDMP CRA activities before. After end of the project period most of them turn-back and all the services goes under water and now they are trying to get fresh contract. Many criticism about the NGO recruitment under CDMP project and their irregularities and have conducted few investigations from the Government, but the result is same. Because who are main culprits till now in position. It is noted last year 11 NGOs selected for CRA activities in Cox's Bazar only 01 NGO from Chittagong and rest 10 was recruited by the consultant team from Dhaka.

     

Now we have clear concern about NGO technical partner should be recruited by the CDMP PIU not under the UDMCs and they will reports to CDMP. If we do so, then it will be get more benefit for the project, otherwise NGOs will link with the present UP's corruption process and Government and donors will blame the whole NGOs are corrupted? If the recruitment process is corruption oriented, how we can got the pure result. Besides it also very much familiar with large NGOs who has multistoried building & maintained unfair business. Few selected NGOs who have close contact with PMU will get priority and make syndicate.. CDMP is a humanitarian services for the vulnerable disaster victims in coastal areas. I was proved any disaster mitigation participation of local people is most important, if we select corporate NGOs from Dhaka involve of local people become bar, few corporate NGOs will handle and control the entire fund and that will be encourage the unfair business. As per point of local NGOs, ADAB would like to express our anxiety to reconstitute this clause and NGOs technical partner should be selected under CDMP and local NGOs based in the working location will be given preference.

       

S M Nazer Hossain

Chairperson

ADAB Chittagong Chapter

Email: adab.chittagong@yahoo.com

Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh(ADAB)
Chittagong Chapter
House # 11 Road # 01, Block-B Chandgaon R/A, Chittagong-4212
Tel: 880-31-670302, 01713-110054 (chair)
E-mail:
adab.chittagong@yahoo.com

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[chottala.com] Barrister Rafiq's ultimate motive - could he be a symphathiser for war-criminals

Barrister Rafiq's ultimate motive - could he be a symphathiser for war-criminals?
Let history be known regarding his role for the upliftman of the country during his career
 
 
He can fight the corrupts politicians out of jail, against the will of the government and to a great extent, against the will of the majority of the people.
 
However, he can not force the government to start the proceeding of the war crimes tribunal? However, he does not hesitate to score political points by claiming that is in favour of the tribunal. Not only that - he proposes to give free service for that?
 
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But he will provide the free professional service to try the war criminals only if he is forced to do that - i.e. government has to force him to provide that service by creating the commisison. He can't force the government through legal means to create the commision.
 
When it comes to corrupts, he has all the power to force the government! What are we missing here, Mr. Learned Barrister?
 
If you think deep, hypothetically, his promise of giving free service might have much deeper meaning. He is actually offering the free service so that he can sabotage those cases to free those criminals, too. Could that be a possibility?
 
When he knows that a dialogue between Hasina and Khaleda is not possible, those two do not have their best interest of the country in their mind, then why is he now proposing the dialogue? Could it be possible that he helped them bring out of the jail only to demean them? Could he tell that if the two ladies agree to serve the country together - only then - he would provide his free professional service to Khaleda or Hasina?
 
Off course, the dialogue between Hasina and Khaleda is a much needed one. But it was needed two years back, five years back, ten years back.
 
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We know that nothing is going to happen as far as Hasina and Khaleda is concerned. Still, he is forcing that those onto these two lady leaders. Why? Off course, to make them lower than they are!!
 
Also, he would not help government legally - the same government has ensured the freedom of the court. Rather he opposed the government. By doing that he actually have weakened our ongoing reform.
 
Now he is creating big headlines by proposing dialogue between the two lady leaders - albeit knowing that they are incapable of having a conversation between them. However, there are signals that these two ladies might actually help promote the much needed reform inside those two parties. What they need least is to be demeaned. They should be given some space. However, Barrister Haque is not willing to do that - he is forcing a dialogue between the two. By doing that he actually is weaking the prospect of further reform.
 
 
Why would this seemingly good lawyer would want to disturb reform in any way he can? Isn't it ironic? Why would he act against the interest of Bangladesh?
 
Yes, it seems so. However, if one thinks these together with his declared stand about war-criminal and lack of inaction on his part, that could explain something. War-criminals do not have best interest of Bangladesh in their mind. Barrister Rafique has neither!!
 
 
He said, to quote Barrister Haque "They (war criminals) may be tried under our existing laws if our purpose and aim are sincere." Oh, that's it. If you are sincere.
 
You can force an emergency situation to be altered to slow down the reform. But you can't force an existing law into action for the trial of war criminals?
 
Whose interest do you have in your mind? Is is India? Or Pakistan? Or it is actully the Jamatis that has bank-rolled you i.e. paying for professional service that you are providing to Hasina or Khaleda? After all, that might explain your generosity!!
 
Whatever that is, none of these three has ever acted in the interest of Bangladesh and they never will. At least, not in near future. It seems Barrister Rafiq also falls in the same group. Its unfortunate that we had write this article during the month of Ramadan. This article is potentially wrong - written based on few wrong assumptions but which public do not know. We wrote this in the interest of Bangladesh. There is another positive side, off course. This also give Barrister Haque to prove us wrong. Nobody will be more happy than us, if he can actually prove us wrong.
 
 
If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columnists in regular traditional media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence.
 
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Dear readers, also, if you thought the article was important enough so it should come under attention of the head of the government please forward the message to them. Email address for the Chief Advisor: feeedback@pmo.gov.bd_ or at http://www.cao.gov.bd/feedback/comments.php .
 
 
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