TIB for setting up of RMG Governance Authority

The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has recommended setting up a ‘Garment Sector Governance Authority’ to coordinate governance initiatives of multiplicity of actors and to ensure transparency and accountability in the garment sector. The recommendation came from a TIB study report which was released at a press conference at a city hotel on Monday. TIB chairperson Sultana Kamal, TIB executive director Dr Iftekharuzzman, deputy executive director Dr Sumaiya Khair and director (research and policy) Mohammad Rafiqul Hassan spoke at the press conference. TIB deputy programme manger (research and policy) Dr Sharif Ahmad Chowdhury and assistant programme manager Nazmul Huda Nina presented the findings of the follow-up report, ‘Governance Challenges in the Ready-made Garments Sector: Pledges and Progress’. The report says that the key stakeholders, including the government, various government agencies, BGMEA, factory owners and buyers, have made a significant progress to cope with the multidimensional challenges of governance and corruption in the country’s garments sector that were responsible for exposing the sector to unprecedented vulnerabilities in the wake of the Rana Plaza tragedy, according to UNB.