E November
07
Another seven days of bringing positive change
We might have beat India in cricket last weekend, but we could not beat Sudipto Dada in being a good sport! So let‛s just hope we‛ll continue defeating India in cricket!!! However, the week was not all fun and games, as we had one serious event after the other. General Economic Division (GED) and UNDP held a “Consultation on Private Sector Engagement in Attaining SDGs in Bangladesh: Bonding and Beyond Thoughts” at InterContinental Dhaka. Then DRRF organised a roundtable marking World Tsunami Awareness Day on Tuesday.
Kris Mukundan, International Team Leader for the UNDP led UN supported Cox‛s Bazar District Development Plan formulation presented the initial results of the needs assessment and prioritization exercise to all the resident Development Partners at an event hosted by the UK High Commission and DFID. Fortunately on Wednesday, THE APA treated us to grand lunch spread, keyrings and personally signed cards on the little flower bouquets... Now those are the fine touches we will miss when she heads off to BRH. Good news is that she is here until the long Delivery season is over.. To be frank, we may never run out of reasons to appreciate and miss Shaila Khan, the not-so-silent guardian of UNDP Bangladesh!!!
P.S.
We don‛t know how many of you have noticed the new UNDP aprons that Ripa Apa and Bashar 2.0 (A.K.A Shohag) are strutting. We have also done away with plastic bottles from our meetings and now serve water in cool SDG glass bottles!!!
We have sad news... None of the participants of the SERIOUS WEEK READER contest from last week could find out all the errors... But fret not... we did some intense calculations and data gleaning to find the two winners so as to not be spoilsports. (Click to find the scoresheet and pdf with all errors.)
So congrats to Tshering Pem and Rezwana Hoque Chaity!!! The gifts would reach you two soon... But NO videos for all of you this week!!!