Active institutions vital for good governance
Says Gowher
Good governance would not be established in the country unless the governance institutions, which hold the government accountable, do their work properly, said Gowher Rizvi, international affairs adviser to the prime minister, yesterday.
He said the civil society, research institutes, think tanks and media have a major role to play to hold these institutions accountable.
The adviser was addressing the inaugural ceremony of an international conference on “Governance and Public Service Transformation in South Asia†at a hotel in the capital.
Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-South Asian Region (ANSA-SAR) and Institute of Governance Studies (IGS) of Brac University organised the two-day long conference.
The conference is being organised in collaboration with United National Millennium Campaign-Asia and Pacific Region, United Nations Development Programme Asia-Pacific Regional Centre, Public Affairs Centre, MPPG Programme of North-South University and Governance Research Unit of Monash University.
Gowher said for effective governance to happen "we need to make sure that the government is accountable".
Simultaneously, the institutions will also have to be held accountable, he added.
Dr Mahabub Hossain, executive director of Brac, and Stefan Priesner, country director of UNDP Bangladesh, also addressed the programme.
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