Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) is set to introduce a business continuity plan in its economic zones.
As part of this initiative, an inception workshop on business continuity plan was held on Thursday at a city hotel.
The workshop was jointly organised by the Programming Division of Bangladesh Planning Commission and Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA).
The Programming Division of Bangladesh Planning Commission is supporting BEZA for this piloting with the assistance of the National Resilience Program (NRP) technically supported by UNDP and funded by FCDO of UK and Sida of the Government of Sweden.
Under this piloting initiative, guidelines will be developed for area-specific and enterprise-level business continuity plan and capacity development training on BCP will be imparted to the business administrators and BEZA officials.
Initially, the BCP will be piloted in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpanagar, Mirshari, Chattogram, and Meghna Industrial Economic Zones in Narayanganj.
The key objective of the BCP is to protect the investment in economic zones from disaster-related losses and develop an institutional mechanism for promoting resilience in business. Professor Rakib Ahsan, team leader for the BCP consultants team, shared the working approaches of BCP.
The inception workshop was chaired by Mohammad Erfan Sharif, Executive Member, BEZA.
Nasima Begum, Member, Socio-Economic Infrastructure Division of Bangladesh Planning Commission addressed the workshop as chief guest.
Among others, Khandker Ahsan Hossain, Chief of Programming Division, Dr. Nurun Nahar, Joint Chief and Project Director, NRP, and Sudipto Mukerjee, Resident Representative, UNDP Bangladesh spoke in the workshop.
A total of 50 representatives from different Government ministries, divisions, and business associations participated in this event.
