PAD - LGED

for mechanisms which (drawing on this ORA as a ‘baseline’) will facilitate efficient future
monitoring of operational risks in LGED and the Local Government Division of the Ministry of
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MLGRD&C). The Institutional
Component of this proposed project and the GAAP heavily build on FORMIP.
8. LGED is one of the largest public sector organizations in Bangladesh entrusted for
planning and implementation of local level rural urban and small scale water resources
infrastructure development programs. LGED works closely with the local stakeholders to ensure
people’s participation and bottom–up planning in all stages of project implementation cycle.
LGED known as the most efficient government organization in Bangladesh is highly committed
to good governance as it is defined in its statement of mission. “Development and management
of local infrastructure for increasing farm/non-farm production, generating employment,
improving socio-economic condition, promoting local governance, reducing poverty and acting
as agent of change at the local level”.
9. LGED’s commitment to good governance is demonstrated through a number of good
practices initiated under the recently completed Bank-funded RTIP-I as well as other initiatives
launched and promoted by LGED on its own. Among the most significant governance initiatives
are (i) a well developed website with sufficient information on the organization, projects,
procurement plan, notification of awards, etc. (ii) a list of debarred contractors on the website,
(iii) recruitment of an external engineering firm to conduct regular technical monitoring of rural
roads; (iv) project monitoring database with information on the physical progress, and (v) ongoing
revision of LGED’s organogram and organizational functions.
10. LGED is strongly committed to promoting e-governance through development of its own
long term ICT and MIS blueprint incorporating all the different functional needs of different
departments and projects, so as to facilitate holistic planning for using ICT as a decision support
tool. This blueprint would assess the existing systems such as Uniform Financial Management
System (UFMS), and make recommendations on next steps. In December 2007, an IT and MIS
Needs Assessment study of LGED was carried out with ADB support. The report suggested
developing a web-based MIS system for meeting the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) needs of
LGED by defining a set of key performance indicators. The report provided details of the
hardware required for the suggested system along with qualifications for the posts of ICT and
MIS Division but only from the limited project M&E point of view.
11. The likely outcome of the ICT and MIS blueprint would be development / procurement
of an integrated, comprehensive, enterprise wide, workflow based, decision support system
(IDSS), which is both modular and scalable and based on web technologies. The IDSS would be
expected to cover the following:
• On-line Progress Monitoring System(PMS)
• Online data sharing with field level by deploying File Transfer Protocol(FTP) service
• Transactions Processing System capturing all day to day transactions (financial) and data
(non-financial) at the lowest level;
• Spatial Interface: Geographical Information System (GIS)
• Non Spatial Interface: Management Information System (MIS)
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