PPP imperative to achieve SDGs

DHAKA, Apr 16 (BSS) : Participants in an international dialogue held in the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York on Wednesday opined that Public-Private Partnership (PPP) would be critical to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The daylong dialogue titled "Global PPP initiatives in post 2015: Financing Development Projects" was jointly organized by the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN, a non-resident Bangladeshi organization Global NRB USA and a US-based consulting and event management company FICS to find out ways to increase financing to achieve post-2015 development goals in the developing countries including Bangladesh.
The post-2015 SDGs will be adopted at the UN summit on 25-27 September in New York. Some 169 targets under 17 goals are expected to be finalized, which would be implemented in developed, developing and least developed countries within a span of 15 years up to 2030.
Experts consider the SDGs are being framed as the transition of the MDGs that were adopted in 2000 with a target to achieve eight social goals by 2015 mostly in the LDCs.
Presided over by Permanent Representative of Bangladesh Dr. A. K. Abdul Momen, the morning session was participated by State Minister for Health Zahid Malek, President of FICS USA Tafazzul Karim, representative of the UN development policy and analysis division William Van der Geest, management consultant Dr. Mahbubul Joarder, representatives of the UN member states, UN officials, entrepreneurs and international experts.
Urging foreign investors to invest more in Bangladesh, the state minister elaborated the scopes and opportunities that are prevailing in Bangladesh for FDI