Accompanying the estimation of revenue and expenditure, the local level budget manifests a grassr... more Accompanying the estimation of revenue and expenditure, the local level budget manifests a grassroots area's development plan for a defined period. In Bangladesh, the Union Parishad (UP), the lowest tier of local government, is obliged to prepare its annual budget by ensuring people's participation through various mechanisms and committees following the Local Government (Union Parishad) Act, 2009. With this background, the study explores the UPs' budgeting procedure to identify the influential actors and effectiveness of people's participation from political economy perspectives. Following the qualitative case study approach, this study was conducted on the four Union Parishads in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Cumilla and Narsingdi districts. It follows the in-depth interview and Focus Group Discussion techniques to collect primary data from the UP chairman, members, Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNO), and other members of various UP committees. The finding shows that mechanisms li...
This study attempts to scrutinize the levels of people's participation to ensure local area d... more This study attempts to scrutinize the levels of people's participation to ensure local area development at sub-district level of Bangladesh. More precisely the study explains and describes people's participation level in the development functions in existing decentralized process. The study is mainly based on primary and secondary data. Mixed research approach has been used to conduct the study. The access of people in ensuring local area development at sub-district level has been identified by surveying on the beneficiaries and voting and non-voting members of 'Sylhet Sadar Upazila Parishad'. Devolution combines the aptitude of local democracy with technical efficiency and gives local bodies' extensive decision making power and has to be accountable and responsive to local people. But people's participation level is significantly pitiable in development initiatives at sub-districts. If the UZP is fully independent to the development plan formulation, endorse...
E-Health is the new component of e-governance which can give cost-effective, efficient, less time... more E-Health is the new component of e-governance which can give cost-effective, efficient, less time-consuming services and a key strategy to meet people health related needs by using different electronic devices. The aim of this study is to identify the effectiveness of e-health services provided by community clinics situated in Sylhet sadar upazila and also discover the major challenges faced by community clinics to provide e-health services. In order to explain and exploring the effectiveness of e-health services provided by Community Clinics social survey method has been used in this study. E-health initiative through community clinics are creating a great opportunity for the rural backward people to access primary treatment and helping them to connect with specialized doctors using electronic devices. For these purpose laptops, modems and others electronic devices are provided in every community clinic but the majority of service providers said the standards of these are not satis...
E-Health is the new component of e-governance which can give cost-effective, efficient, less time... more E-Health is the new component of e-governance which can give cost-effective, efficient, less time-consuming services and a key strategy to meet people health related needs by using different electronic devices. The aim of this study is to identify the effectiveness of e-health services provided by community clinics situated in Sylhet sadar upazila and also discover the major challenges faced by community clinics to provide e-health services. In order to explain and exploring the effectiveness of e-health services provided by Community Clinics social survey method has been used in this study. E-health initiative through community clinics are creating a great opportunity for the rural backward people to access primary treatment and helping them to connect with specialized doctors using electronic devices. For these purpose laptops, modems and others electronic devices are provided in every community clinic but the majority of service providers said the standards of these are not satis...
The article presents the implication of public service ethics followed by conceptual arguments ba... more The article presents the implication of public service ethics followed by conceptual arguments based on the professional literature to raise and sustain ethical standards in the public sector. This paper tries to extrapolate wideranging facts about the unethical doings in civil service of Bangladesh. The main purpose of the study is to identify specific instruments that can be successfully implemented in public institutions in correlation with specific ethical problems based on the sources of evidence include valuable works of specialists and studies conducted focused on ethics in public sector. This article has been followed by a secondary qualitative data analysis specifically used use retrospective interpretation method to explore new or unanswered issue from the existing set of data. Conclusions of the paper refer that corruption, conflicts of interest, favoritism, and nepotism are the effects of unethical actions in opposite of these, values, morals, accountability and transparency are the constituent of public service code of ethics as well as good governance in civil service.
International Journal of Research in Social Sciences And Humanities , 2016
This study attempts to scrutinize the levels of people's participation to ensure local area devel... more This study attempts to scrutinize the levels of people's participation to ensure local area development at sub-district level of Bangladesh. More precisely the study explains and describes people's participation level in the development functions in existing decentralized process. The study is mainly based on primary and secondary data. Mixed research approach has been used to conduct the study. The access of people in ensuring local area development at sub-district level has been identified by surveying on the beneficiaries and voting and non-voting members of 'Sylhet Sadar Upazila Parishad'. Devolution combines the aptitude of local democracy with technical efficiency and gives local bodies' extensive decision making power and has to be accountable and responsive to local people. But people's participation level is significantly pitiable in development initiatives at sub-districts. If the UZP is fully independent to the development plan formulation, endorse financial autonomy to implement the development programs and ensuring people's participation at all level of development process then local area development will be ensured.
Accompanying the estimation of revenue and expenditure, the local level budget manifests a grassr... more Accompanying the estimation of revenue and expenditure, the local level budget manifests a grassroots area's development plan for a defined period. In Bangladesh, the Union Parishad (UP), the lowest tier of local government, is obliged to prepare its annual budget by ensuring people's participation through various mechanisms and committees following the Local Government (Union Parishad) Act, 2009. With this background, the study explores the UPs' budgeting procedure to identify the influential actors and effectiveness of people's participation from political economy perspectives. Following the qualitative case study approach, this study was conducted on the four Union Parishads in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Cumilla and Narsingdi districts. It follows the in-depth interview and Focus Group Discussion techniques to collect primary data from the UP chairman, members, Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNO), and other members of various UP committees. The finding shows that mechanisms li...
This study attempts to scrutinize the levels of people's participation to ensure local area d... more This study attempts to scrutinize the levels of people's participation to ensure local area development at sub-district level of Bangladesh. More precisely the study explains and describes people's participation level in the development functions in existing decentralized process. The study is mainly based on primary and secondary data. Mixed research approach has been used to conduct the study. The access of people in ensuring local area development at sub-district level has been identified by surveying on the beneficiaries and voting and non-voting members of 'Sylhet Sadar Upazila Parishad'. Devolution combines the aptitude of local democracy with technical efficiency and gives local bodies' extensive decision making power and has to be accountable and responsive to local people. But people's participation level is significantly pitiable in development initiatives at sub-districts. If the UZP is fully independent to the development plan formulation, endorse...
E-Health is the new component of e-governance which can give cost-effective, efficient, less time... more E-Health is the new component of e-governance which can give cost-effective, efficient, less time-consuming services and a key strategy to meet people health related needs by using different electronic devices. The aim of this study is to identify the effectiveness of e-health services provided by community clinics situated in Sylhet sadar upazila and also discover the major challenges faced by community clinics to provide e-health services. In order to explain and exploring the effectiveness of e-health services provided by Community Clinics social survey method has been used in this study. E-health initiative through community clinics are creating a great opportunity for the rural backward people to access primary treatment and helping them to connect with specialized doctors using electronic devices. For these purpose laptops, modems and others electronic devices are provided in every community clinic but the majority of service providers said the standards of these are not satis...
E-Health is the new component of e-governance which can give cost-effective, efficient, less time... more E-Health is the new component of e-governance which can give cost-effective, efficient, less time-consuming services and a key strategy to meet people health related needs by using different electronic devices. The aim of this study is to identify the effectiveness of e-health services provided by community clinics situated in Sylhet sadar upazila and also discover the major challenges faced by community clinics to provide e-health services. In order to explain and exploring the effectiveness of e-health services provided by Community Clinics social survey method has been used in this study. E-health initiative through community clinics are creating a great opportunity for the rural backward people to access primary treatment and helping them to connect with specialized doctors using electronic devices. For these purpose laptops, modems and others electronic devices are provided in every community clinic but the majority of service providers said the standards of these are not satis...
The article presents the implication of public service ethics followed by conceptual arguments ba... more The article presents the implication of public service ethics followed by conceptual arguments based on the professional literature to raise and sustain ethical standards in the public sector. This paper tries to extrapolate wideranging facts about the unethical doings in civil service of Bangladesh. The main purpose of the study is to identify specific instruments that can be successfully implemented in public institutions in correlation with specific ethical problems based on the sources of evidence include valuable works of specialists and studies conducted focused on ethics in public sector. This article has been followed by a secondary qualitative data analysis specifically used use retrospective interpretation method to explore new or unanswered issue from the existing set of data. Conclusions of the paper refer that corruption, conflicts of interest, favoritism, and nepotism are the effects of unethical actions in opposite of these, values, morals, accountability and transparency are the constituent of public service code of ethics as well as good governance in civil service.
International Journal of Research in Social Sciences And Humanities , 2016
This study attempts to scrutinize the levels of people's participation to ensure local area devel... more This study attempts to scrutinize the levels of people's participation to ensure local area development at sub-district level of Bangladesh. More precisely the study explains and describes people's participation level in the development functions in existing decentralized process. The study is mainly based on primary and secondary data. Mixed research approach has been used to conduct the study. The access of people in ensuring local area development at sub-district level has been identified by surveying on the beneficiaries and voting and non-voting members of 'Sylhet Sadar Upazila Parishad'. Devolution combines the aptitude of local democracy with technical efficiency and gives local bodies' extensive decision making power and has to be accountable and responsive to local people. But people's participation level is significantly pitiable in development initiatives at sub-districts. If the UZP is fully independent to the development plan formulation, endorse financial autonomy to implement the development programs and ensuring people's participation at all level of development process then local area development will be ensured.
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professional literature to raise and sustain ethical standards in the public sector. This paper tries to extrapolate wideranging
facts about the unethical doings in civil service of Bangladesh. The main purpose of the study is to identify
specific instruments that can be successfully implemented in public institutions in correlation with specific ethical
problems based on the sources of evidence include valuable works of specialists and studies conducted focused on
ethics in public sector. This article has been followed by a secondary qualitative data analysis specifically used use
retrospective interpretation method to explore new or unanswered issue from the existing set of data. Conclusions
of the paper refer that corruption, conflicts of interest, favoritism, and nepotism are the effects of unethical actions in
opposite of these, values, morals, accountability and transparency are the constituent of public service code of ethics
as well as good governance in civil service.
professional literature to raise and sustain ethical standards in the public sector. This paper tries to extrapolate wideranging
facts about the unethical doings in civil service of Bangladesh. The main purpose of the study is to identify
specific instruments that can be successfully implemented in public institutions in correlation with specific ethical
problems based on the sources of evidence include valuable works of specialists and studies conducted focused on
ethics in public sector. This article has been followed by a secondary qualitative data analysis specifically used use
retrospective interpretation method to explore new or unanswered issue from the existing set of data. Conclusions
of the paper refer that corruption, conflicts of interest, favoritism, and nepotism are the effects of unethical actions in
opposite of these, values, morals, accountability and transparency are the constituent of public service code of ethics
as well as good governance in civil service.