Dr. Shanawez Hossain, Research Fellow of BIGD, BRAC University attended Divisional workshop of National Governance Assessment Framework (NGAF) held in the Sylhet Circuit House on 2 November 2016, organised by the Governance Innovation Unit (GIU) of the Prime Minister’s Office, Bangladesh. The workshop was organised under the NGAF project of the GIU and UNDP, Bangladesh. To assess the governance scenario in Bangladesh under the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16, GIU and UNDP have joined hands to develop a country contextual National Governance Assessment Framework for Bangladesh. A Working Group has been set up to provide input to the draft framework. BIGD is one of the working group members with the Department of Public Administration and the Department of Development Studies of the University of Dhaka. As the process of finalising the framework progresses, the aim of organising the workshop is to consult with the field level government and non government stakeholders to get more comprehensive feedback and also to create a sense of ownership among them.
Different government and non government officials, members of the civil society, local government experts and representatives from Department of Development Studies, Dhaka University were present at the workshop.