Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 3(1), pp. 24 - 36
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030104
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NGOs and Their Implications in Promoting Social Development in Bangladesh: An Overview

A.B.M Enamol Hassan ^*
Department of Humanities, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Chittagong-4349, Bangladesh

ABSTRACT

As the non-profit sector of a country, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) are truly vital cog in the paradigm of social development in Bangladesh. It is generalized that Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and NGOs have created jointly a new era of partnership in poverty alleviation activities, gender sensitive issues, education, health and been giving competent sustainability in the socio-economic conditions of Bangladesh. Since the NGOs are aimed to spreading awareness in people, strengthening and institutionalization of democracy promotion as well as ensuring maximum people participation in community- driven development approach. Therefore, the paper reviews these developmental phenomena launched by local and international NGOs in the context of Bangladesh especially in the field of education, health, environment, micro-finance, good governance, democracy and social justice etc. It investigates their contribution and present status along with necessary critical evaluations as well as factors that sometimes underestimate of NGOs' existence. The paper is designed with a theoretical conception of development contributed by NGOs along with its location in civil society and is fully literature-based that data and information have been accumulated from books, journals and electronic media as well. As the finding it has been seen that the sector is working for ensuring socio-economic development of poor and hard core poor people those are treated as the very negligible and marginalized by other two sectors i.e state and business working with political implications and profit maximization respectively whereas NGOs do for poors in assurance of financial solvence, basic education, nutritional status, participation in decision making for women both inside and outside of family and good governance etc. After all their activities are on the ground of no generation of profit.

KEYWORDS
Non-government Organization, Civil Society, Education, Health, Micro-credit, Poverty, Development

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[1] A.B.M Enamol Hassan , "NGOs and Their Implications in Promoting Social Development in Bangladesh: An Overview," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24 - 36, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030104.

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A.B.M Enamol Hassan (2015). NGOs and Their Implications in Promoting Social Development in Bangladesh: An Overview. Sociology and Anthropology, 3(1), 24 - 36. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030104.