Government and NGOs in South Asia

Mohammad Jahangir Hossain Mojumder, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Chowmuhani Government SA College, Noakhali, Bangladesh. His main areas of academic interest include (local) governance, NGOs, service-delivery, women’s empowerment, and remittances. Pranab Kumar Panday, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He was a senior Fulbright fellow at the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University, USA, in 2012. Panday's main areas of research include political participation, social movements, NGOs and civil society, governance, and gender studies.

• 1. Introduction 2. Strengthening Local Governance: A Conceptual Lens for the Study of GO-NGO Collaborative Programmes 3. Government Initiatives for Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh 4. Collaborative Programmes: Collective Measures of GO-NGO 5. Shepherding Capacity Building in Collaboration of GO and NGO 6. Roles of GO-NGO Teamwork for Increasing People’s Participation in Local Governance 7. Collaboration Between an NGO Project and Local Government: An Effort to Improve Accountability and Transparency 8. Do Do GO-NGO Collaborative Efforts Bring Fiscal Autonomy of Local Government Units? A Scrutiny 9. Mainstreaming Gender in the Local Governance: The Outcomes of Collaboration between Local Government and an NGO Project 10. NGO’s Collaboration with Local Government Institutions and its Challenges 11. Conclusion: Insights for Theory, and Policy Implications and Modelling of GO-NGO Collaboration