NGOs reject TIB report

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The Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB) Friday rejected the research report of the Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) that has branded the NGO sector as a highly corrupt area.
Conducting the survey on 20 NGOs-one international, eight national and 11 local ones-the TIB published the report on Thursday.
The report found that 85 percent of the national and local NGOs did not have financial transparency as their audit and financial reports were usually prepared with exaggerations.
Describing the TIB report as full of "controversies", the NGO Federation in a press statement said the activities and output of the country's NGOs should be evaluated properly.
"Reading the research report conducted on 20 NGOs, it seems that all the NGOs are corrupts. We protest such an evaluation," the statement said.
The FNB also criticised TIB chairman Prof Dr Muzaffer Ahmad for his "sweeping comments" in electronic media about the corruption in the NGO sector.
"Muzaffer Ahmed himself is involved with some NGOs. Many NGOs have brought laurels for the country by their successes in conducting development projects. But the NGOs' successes and contributions to the country's development were not reflected in Muzaffer Ahmed's remarks," it said.
The FNB, however, welcomed the TIB research report's suggestion to form an independent NGO Commission to check corruption in the NGO sector.