Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s development innovation- ‘the SDG-Tracker’ and championing women empowerment.
“The Commonwealth under its Innovation Hub has placed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s social innovation initiative of designing and creating ‘the SDG-Tracker’ for as a best practice for realising Agenda 2030,”Patricia said.
She said this while receiving the newly-appointed Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK and member of the Governing Board of the Commonwealth Saida Muna Tasneem at the Marlborough House recently, said the High Commission on Saturday.
The Bangladesh High Commissioner briefed the Secretary-General about the social innovation initiatives undertaken by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over the last 10 years that have placed Bangladesh in the top brackets of social indicators in South Asia.
The High Commissioner also briefed the Secretary General about PM Sheikh Hasina’s recent zero-tolerance political declaration on corruption and terrorism in order to promote good governance and the rule of law.
The Commonwealth Secretary-General also lauded the Prime Minister for her sustained championing of gender equality and creating equal opportunity for all.
The High Commissioner commended the Secretary-General on few of her new initiatives and reaffirmed Bangladesh’s commitment to work closely with the action groups under Blue Charter, Peace at the Crease, Commonwealth Innovation Hub and Faith initiative.
She also expressed Bangladesh’s keen interest to work closely with the Commonwealth in a number of areas, including climate change, enhancing intra-Commonwealth trade, ICT, inter-faith harmony, industry 4.0 and good governance.