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SDG-1 and 5 Complemented by BNF at Bangladesh: An Investigation

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The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh has established Bangladesh NGO Foundation (BNF) to support the NGOs, with a view to associate the Non-Governmental Organizations and assigned to take up socio- economic development activities and poverty alleviation. The country has also been facing massive challenges of feeding the rapidly increasing population or even to support their livelihood in a sustainable manner. Bangladesh NGO foundation already disbursed more than 110 Crore taka through partner organizations out of which 36% is male while 64% is female beneficiary. The study intends to see whether SDG 1 and 5 is implementing through BNF or not. Time period of the study was 15 May 2016 to 30th June, 2017. This study aimed to find out whether sustainable development goal 1 and 5 of BNF partner organization due to BNF grant is indicating any significant role? Research question of the study is whether BNF’s partner organizations sustainable development goal 1 and 5 of BNF partner organization due to BNF grant? Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data for this study. NGOs are working for women’s entrepreneurship since expanding women’s economic opportunities is fundamental to sustainable growth and building more equitable societies. In this study, 93.9% of the organizations give help to women entrepreneurs. Majority (69.6%) of the respondents were strongly agreed that BNF’s financing and capital formatting solve social problem. It has been seen that there was significant association between NGOs role for removing poverty and fulfilling towards SDG1 and 5 as disparity of removing inequality of poor women group has been also occurring. Equitable justice and removing income inequality is occurring through BNF grant. However, restructuring of BNF is required as it lacks any vision, mission and marketing approach as well as supply chain management process. BNF also need to take a project to play as a financial intermediary to ensure community banking in Bangladesh under separate regulator.

Published in International Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijsd.20170304.18
Page(s) 113-123
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Keywords

BNF, Beneficiaries, Socio-economic Development, Relation to Social Values, Sustainability, Income, Welfare and Poverty Reduction, Non-farm Business Activities, Finance in Rural Economies, Community Banking

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  • Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Dhaka School of Economics Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Department of Natural Sciences, Daffodil International University (DIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Department of Public Health, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Department of Economics, Business Administration and Tourism, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Suceava, Romania

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