GBV project visited by the Director General of NGO Affairs Bureau

On 13 June 2024, a visit was conducted to the "Gender Based Violence in Emergency (GBViE)" project implemented by Mukti Cox’s Bazar and funded by UNFPA. The visitor was Md. Saidur Rahman, Director General of NGO Affairs Bureau (Prime-Minister office, Bangladesh). During the visit, he was on duty of govt. department in Cox’s Bazar. Syed Lutful Kabir Chowdhury, Deputy-Chief Executive of Mukti Cox’s Bazar and other project staff accompanied him. At first, Deputy-Chief Executive of Mukti Cox’s Bazar welcomed the honorable guest and shared a short brief of the project. The guest visited the project activities to the WFS of Camp-7 which is situated at Kutupalong under Ukhiya Upazila. After visiting the activities of WFS, he observed an outreach awareness session on GBV related issues and was impressed to observe the session on GBV related and family planning issues because the process of session conduction and facilitation skills were very impressive. All the participants actively participated in the session content and shared experience. After that, the honorable guest sat together with the staff of Mukti Cox’s Bazar for experience sharing. In the discussion, he said to conduct this kind of session more and opined that people need to have a clear understanding about family planning and its importance to raise awareness in the community. As Bangladesh is an over populated country, a huge number of sessions need to be conducted to control the oversized population. He appreciated the initiatives of Mukti Cox’s Bazar and suggested continuing the interventions. After sharing opinions with staff of Mukti Cox’s Bazar, the honorable guest conducted a meeting with Govt. officials, staff of other NGOs and INGOs at CiC conference room at Camp-7 and inquired about the update of sector performance and shared opinions with officials present. He encouraged the good work and expressed expectation of coordination with DC and RRRC. He assured support to speed up the work and coordinate if any support is needed from NGO Affairs Bureau in future for smooth work for the Rohingya community. In the end he requested all officials to work with transparency and accountability for mankind.