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Unnayan Onneshan, Centre for Research and Action on Development, organised tow-day workshops entitled Bangladesh Human Security Assessment on December 6-7 at the Hotel sarina, Dhaka, Bangladesh with the support of DFID Bangladesh. The first day of the workshop was attended by the donor communities in Bangladesh while the second day was participated by representatives from national and international NGOs, research centres, academics, civil society organisations. Professor Mushtaq Khan, SOAS, University of London, UK, and the principal author of the report titled Bangladesh Human Security Assessment 2005, has delivered the keynote presentation with the support of three-category reports at the beginning of the workshops.  Details

The SBCP was planned to run for seven years (July 1998-June 2005). The project was formally instigated in March 2000 and was suspended in 2003. Finally, the ADB officially cancelled the project in January 2005 . The ADB first suspended the borrower's (GoB) right on September 4, 2003 and stipulated three conditions for lifting the suspension, namely: (1) revision of the project design according to a revision plan acceptable to ADB; (2) reconciliation of project's accounts in compliance with ADB's financial management guidelines and (3) to meet the terms of crucial loan covenants of the discontinuation of funding, however, it could not perceive the proposed set up for the project by the ADB as 'implementable'. The mission further ascertained that the ADB should explore vigorously for a more acceptable mechanism of project implementation. The mission finally made certain that the SBCP was running without any accounts mechanism and the claim for the existence of such accountability in that office would be a ‘travesty of truth’.  Details

Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir of Unnayan Onneshan had participated in the Workshop on Livelihood issues of fishing communities in the Sundarbans Impact Zone on 19-20 December 2006 at India organised by ActionAid India. He addressed the issues of livelihood of fisher folk of Sundarban Region highlighting the Bangladesh part.

Monower Mostafa represented AEJB in the Indian Social Forum (ISF) held on 9-13 Novenmebr, 2006 in Dew Delhi, India. He took part in different seminars as a guest speaker.