JSP to review progress of aided projects
Thursday, 16 August 2007
FE Report
The Joint Strategy Partners (JSP), a platform of four major donors, will jointly review the progress of their financial supported projects in Bangladesh, official sources said.
The JSP, comprising World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japan and UK's Department for International Development (DFID), will send a joint country assistance evaluation mission to Bangladesh, they said.
Sources in the Economic Relation Division (ERD) said that the JSP recently sent a letter to the ERD seeking schedule for the proposed mission.
Quoting the letter, a senior ERD official told the FE Wednesday that the four bilateral and multilateral development partners wanted to send the mission to evaluate progress of different projects in Bangladesh in mid-October this year.
He said: "The ERD is now reviewing its existing programmes. I think the mission might be allowed to do its job during that time."
The four major development partners formed the JSP a few years back in order to harmonise their aid support for Bangladesh and for helping the country to achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) by 2015.
According to ERD statistics, until fiscal 2006-07 the JSP members, the World Bank provided US$9.88 billion, the ADB $6.544 billion, the United Kingdom $1.245 billion and Japan $6.768 billion for the development of different sectors in Bangladesh.
The Joint Strategy Partners (JSP), a platform of four major donors, will jointly review the progress of their financial supported projects in Bangladesh, official sources said.
The JSP, comprising World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japan and UK's Department for International Development (DFID), will send a joint country assistance evaluation mission to Bangladesh, they said.
Sources in the Economic Relation Division (ERD) said that the JSP recently sent a letter to the ERD seeking schedule for the proposed mission.
Quoting the letter, a senior ERD official told the FE Wednesday that the four bilateral and multilateral development partners wanted to send the mission to evaluate progress of different projects in Bangladesh in mid-October this year.
He said: "The ERD is now reviewing its existing programmes. I think the mission might be allowed to do its job during that time."
The four major development partners formed the JSP a few years back in order to harmonise their aid support for Bangladesh and for helping the country to achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) by 2015.
According to ERD statistics, until fiscal 2006-07 the JSP members, the World Bank provided US$9.88 billion, the ADB $6.544 billion, the United Kingdom $1.245 billion and Japan $6.768 billion for the development of different sectors in Bangladesh.