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Village Courts Project’s Donor meeting held

Activating Village Courts in Bangladesh Project had its donor meeting on 18th December 2013 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel. The meeting reviewed the achievements and lessons learning of the current phase which is ending by December 2014.

The EC representative Mr. Philippe Jacques, Head of Cooperation expressed his deep satisfaction for the progress particularly the policy achievement made recently through amending the Village Courts Act in the Parliament. He termed this intervention as a flagship project and expressed his commitment to continue the support in the next phase.

Mr. Abu Alam Md. Shahid Khan, LGD Secretary thanked the donors both EC and UNDP for their continued supports with technical assistance for this type of highly demanding and time worthy project which LGD considered should be replicated countrywide. The government representative expressed their deeper appreciation for the cooperation and at the same time wanted to maintain uninterrupted continuation between current and the next phase while expressed their cost-sharing intention for the project.

The meeting agreed to field the formulation mission merging with identification mission by June 2014. The lunch-meeting was also attended by Mr. Luc Patzelt, Task Manager from EU Delegation, Ms. Shamima Nargis, Joint Secretary of LGD, Mr. Abu Tahir Md. Zaber, Deputy Secretary of LGD, Mr. Salahuddin Khan, Programme Analyst, UNDP and Mr. Sarder Asaduzzaman, Project Coordinator, Activating Village Courts in Bangladesh Project.

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