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KOICA's Activities in Bangladesh 2013 Happiness for All, with Global KOICA!
As a good friend of Bangladesh, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) responsible for Korea’s grant assistance since its establishment in 1991 has always considered Bangladesh as a top priority partner country.
KOICA started its journey in Bangladesh in the year of 1993 when KOICA dispatched 6 volunteers here so that this year marked the 20th anniversary of dispatching KOICA volunteers to Bangladesh. KOICA Bangladesh Office plans to celebrate this auspicious occasion through organizing KOICA Volunteers’ Photo Exhibition, Korean Cultural Festival with Korean Language Speech Contest, etc. KOICA increased its development cooperation programs in Bangladesh in line with Korea’s ODA policy and plans to continue this enterprise as the Korean Government has pledged to increase its ODA volume significantly from 0.12% of its GNI in 2011 to 0.25% by 2015. KOICA’s Development Cooperation programs in Bangladesh consist of six different modalities which are: project type cooperation, training programs (technical training, long-term master’s degree programs in Korea and in-country training), dispatch of experts and medical doctors, dispatch of Korean overseas volunteers (World Friends Korea), support to NGOs and emergency relief.
According to the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) of the Korean Government to Bangladesh and the mutual understanding and bilateral dialogue between both countries, KOICA has placed priority on fields such as education, health and governance.
From Korea’s own experiences in human resource development, KOICA focuses assistance to education sector, particularly to technical and vocational education and ICT education in Bangladesh. In 2013, KOICA implements a couple of projects in fields of technical and vocational education entitled “Enhancing Vocational Training Program of TTC, Chittagong,” “Modernization and Strengthening of Training Institute for Chemical Industries”. To promote ICT education and to respond to the “Digital Bangladesh” initiative, KOICA sets up 100 IT labs in secondary schools of the Dhaka district from 2013 to 2014. The project for establishing an e-learning system in Bangladesh Open University (BOU) was completed recently.
For the health sector, KOICA and UNICEF Bangladesh mutually cooperate to enhance the maternal and child health care capaci-
ties of the Tangail region. To solve the problem of nurse shortages in Bangladesh, KOICA will establish a graduate nursing
institute at Khilgaon in Dhaka to produce skilled nurses. In the governance sector, as Korea has a comparative advantage in the IT
industry, many of KOICA’s projects are to support IT-related capacity building. To enhance the capacity of Bangladesh Road Transportation Authority, KOICA supports to digitalize BRTA for easier access to license issuing and general e-management. In addition to this, KOICA supports the project entitled “Enhancing Cyber Crime Investigation Capability of Bangladesh”. On the other hand KOICA supports “the Food for New Village Project (FFNV)” for 2013-2015 in order to improve access to food and enable the poor to take advantage of development opportunities through Korea’s successful experience in rural development in collaboration with WFP.
KOICA also completed the projects for “Development of Research Capacity of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI)” and held a completion seminar to disseminate joint research results and outcome of the project most recently.
In addition, KOICA is continuously supporting Bangladeshi human capital development and capacity building, which are essential elements in the national development of Bangladesh through its training programs in Korea regarding various fields of specialization. KOICA also arranges in-country training programs for Bangladesh government officials to improve their technical and managerial skills. Up to now, KOICA has invited more than 1,400 government officials to Korea to participate in training programs in different sectors that are necessary for development. The focus of training programs is to shift from short-term and provider-centered to long-term and Bangladeshi needs and results-based, so as to enable a more effective contribution to the organizational and institutional capacity development.
KOICA’s volunteers program has received positive response and feedback from host organizations and Bangladeshi people. More than 550 volunteers who have worked in Bangladesh so far had significant roles in cultural exchanges and the development of mutual understanding between the two nations through sharing their experience and knowledge and people-to-people exchanges. At present, around 60 volunteers are working in various fields, including the medical field, Korean language, architecture, computer and IT assistance, social welfare, and Taekwondo, among others. Other than the public sector channels, KOICA also has contributed to Bangladesh through the Korean development NGOs which dedicate their efforts in supporting the most vulnerable people of Bangladesh at a grass-root level.
Based on its own experience of eradicating poverty and transforming from an aid recipient to a donor country within a generation, Korea has strived to share its experience with development partners and act as a bridge between advanced and developing countries. KOICA Bangladesh Office is very happy to collaborate with Bangladeshi government and Bangladeshi people in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and promoting Bangladesh to a middle income country by 2021.