Role of Foreign NGOs in Economic Development of Bangladesh: A Study on Muslim Aid UK-Bangladesh Field Office

Abstract

Lot of local and foreign NGOs are working in Bangladesh to serve the poor community people, among them some are following Islamic Shariah in their activities where most of the NGOs are conventional. To evaluate the activities of the foreign Islamic NGOs in economic development of Bangladesh this study was conducted. Muslim Aid UK was considered as the sample organization and among the 70,000 beneficiaries of micro-finance program of the said NGO, 50 were interviewed to collect data to study. It is found that most of the respondents have developed their economic conditions with the service of the sample NGO and they are very satisfied with their Shariah based economic activities. On the basis of the findings, for the sample NGO, the researcher here recommends to extend their services to all the poor rural community people as per requirement of the community and other conventional NGOs may follow Muslim Aid to serve the community.

Key Words: Foreign NGO, Economic development, Islamic micro finance, Muslim Aid.