Negotiating approvals

The revised paperwork in the prescribed format together with the revised proposal and Letter of Intent from HIF was submitted to the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) for approval at the beginning of the month. However after reviewing the pack submitted, the NGOAB is now requesting for another letter of commitment from the donor signifying its intent to support the extension of the project and the correlating expenditure till the end of December 2014. At the time of writing this blog, the project team has initiated negotiation with the donor to address the most recent request from the NGOAB.

The consolidation and preparation of the preliminary baseline report is underway and the project team has also prepared a draft MOU in consultation with the Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD) in anticipation of the approval of the project.