Save the Children and Bangladesh Institute of Planners join hands for children's welfare

Staff Reporter

Published: August 29, 2021, 05:35 PM

Save the Children and Bangladesh Institute of Planners join hands for children's welfare

Save the Children in Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Institute of Planners will work together to ensure the utmost importance of children's rights and children's views in local and national urban planning policies and initiatives.

The two organizations signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Sunday to institutionalize the decision to work together. 

They will basically work together to develop a child-sensitive urban planning manual, support each other to arrange and provide training to urban planners on a child-sensitive city planning, continue advocacy to incorporate child-sensitive issues into government planning and guiding documents, jointly collaborate with universities to incorporate Child sensitive urban planning course in the university curriculum, etc. 

Professor Dr. Akter Mahmud, president of Bangladesh Institute of Planners said, “Building a child-friendly city is a challenge, a challenge that might be difficult but not impossible. We need to work. Planning and building process of the cities should be democratic where children’s voice will be heard.”

Save the Children in Bangladesh Country Director Onno van Manen said in his speech, “The future world will be very difficult for children if we do not start working now. I believe that this initiative of working together will bring benefits to a greater extent to build a child-friendly city.”

Humanitarian Director, Save the Children in Bangladesh; Mostak Hussain, Manager, Urban Resilience, Save the children in Bangladesh; Simon Rahman and Professor Adil Mohammod Khan, General Secretary, Bangladesh Institute of Planners were also present at the event.

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