The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the 'Future Nation' programme to create economic opportunities for all, reports BSS.
'Future Nation' is a new coalition of the government, private and development sectors to accelerate the future national economic growth agenda by transforming the country's population into the key driving force of the economy and enabling them to achieve economic independence beyond borders.
Sudipto Mukerjee, resident representative of UNDP Bangladesh, and Md Ziaul Huq, director general, BIDA, on Sunday inked the partnership on behalf of their respective organisations in the ceremony held at BIDA's head office at Agargaon in the capital, says a press release.
Salman Fazlur Rahman, private sector industry and investment adviser to the PM, highlighted the importance of the partnership between private, public and development sectors at the MoU signing programme as the chief guest.
"One of the key agendas of our prime minister is to have more and more public and private partnership for country's graduation from LDC," Salman Fazlur Rahman said.
"Alliances like Future Nation, will not only help us to recover from the Covid but also make the future generation ready to withstand the 4th Industrial Revolution and even the 5th Industrial Revolution," he added.
BIDA Executive Chairman, Md Sirazul Islam, said, "BIDA holds a significant stake in the goals to be achieved by Future Nation, which is focused on the urgent utilisation of our young population dividend, the emergence of new work, our industrial future and our goal to become a knowledge economy. BIDA will therefore strongly support this initiative, which will contribute to the emergence of a new Bangladesh, where skills will be one of our commodities in the global market."