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December 15, 2009
A consultative meeting on the findings of the communication based assessment (CBA) on the existing communication environment at the government procuring entities and bidding community was held at the Hotel Lake Castle by the Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs (BCCP) on December 15, 2009.
Md Abdul Malek, Secretary of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) was present at the meeting as the chief guest. Amulya Kumar Debnath, Director General, Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of IMED, Dr Zafrul Islam, Lead Procurement Specialist of the World Bank, Dhaka, Mohammad Shahjahan, Chief Executive Officer of BCCP, were also present on the occasion.
BCCP is carrying out the social awareness campaign and communication activities on public procurement under Public Procurement Reform Project-II as the Social Awareness Campaign and Communication (SACC) Consultant of the CPTU.
The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Roads and Highways Department (RHD), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and Rural Electrification Board (REB) are considered four target agencies under the PPRP-II.
Officials from different government entities, members of the bidding community, representative of the Bangladesh Association of Construction Industry (BACI), CPTU officials and consultants and others from the target agencies attended the consultative meeting.
The consultative meeting was aimed at sharing, validating and finalizing the observations and findings gathered from the field level by the BCCP.
As part of the CBA, BCCP interviewed, under a structured questionnaire, a total of 67 respondents in Dhaka and four other divisions. The respondents include procuring officials, local government officials, project implementation officers, bidding community members, CPTU officials and consultants.
Accommodating the observations and suggestions of the participants at the consultative meeting, BCCP will submit the final report to CPTU. Another broad based opinion research on public procurement will be conducted by BCCP across the country on a sample basis which will include all relevant stakeholders of public procurement.
A comprehensive communication strategy will be formulated to address the issues of public procurement on the basis of the findings of the CBA and the OR. |
