Unnayan Onneshan and the Overseas Development institute (ODI), UK organized a seminar titled “Stakeholder Perceptions on the Aid Effectiveness of Multilateral Organisations” held on Wednesday, 16 January, 2008 at 9:30 am at CIRDAP Auditorium, Dhaka.

The seminar was follow up of a study conducted in Bangladesh as well as other five aid recipient countries include Ghana, India, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia under a pilot project of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The study was based on a survey to identify country’s key stakeholders’ views about the performance of multilateral organisations and their preferences for which organisations disburse promised additional aid in future. The six multilateral organisations that have been taken into account are: the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) and the World Bank.

Mr. Md Aminul Islam Bhuiyan, Secretary, Economic Relations Division, Ministry of Finance, attended the seminar as Chief Guest while Dr Quazi Shahabuddin, Director General, BIDS, was the special guest. Former Commerce Secretary, Mr. Suhel Ahmed Choudhury chaired the session while representatives from the government agencies, donor agencies, political parties, business community and the civil society organisations participated in the seminar.