Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) held a workshop at Lake Shore Hotel in the city on Thursday to upgrade Korea Overseas Volunteers Programme in Bangladesh.
At the workshop, participants spent half the day finding better ways to boost this programme in Bangladesh.
A number of dignitaries and representatives from the programme’s host organisations along with representatives of 45 government institutions of the country were present at the workshop.
Taiyoung Cho, ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Asif-Us-Zaman, joint secretary (ERD), Lee Jung Wook, resident representative of Koica Bangladesh, and Md Bazlur Rashid, joint secretary of the Ministry of Establishment, spoke at the workshop.
The participants were asked to share their best practices and constructive ideas with Koica, the Korean government’s grant aid agency.
The 45 participants were from the ministries of education, health and family welfare, social services, labour and employment, textile and jute, civil aviation and tourism, youth and sports, science and ICT and Rural Development and Cooperative Division.
Cho said Koica dispatched over 270 volunteers to mostly work voluntarily for local government institutions of Bangladesh since 1993.
They came to share expertise, knowledge and experience in order to make practical contributions to the socio-economic development of Bangladesh, he said.
