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এনজিও বিষয়ক ব্যুরো
Name, kind, status and website
From the registry of public bodies, which cites ngoab.gov.bd. A dissolution read from an act overrides the registry's status.
Registry structure
The registry of public bodies records the parent as Prime Minister's Office (registry id 1). Provenance: registry structure (entities.parent_id), not a sourced row.
Mandate item
The NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) was established in 1990 through an administrative order of the Government. Its prime objective is to provide one-stop service to the NGOs operating with foreign assistance and registered under the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Ordinance, 1978. In addition, it facilitates the activities of the NGOs in the … Read all
The NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) was established in 1990 through an administrative order of the Government. Its prime objective is to provide one-stop service to the NGOs operating with foreign assistance and registered under the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Ordinance, 1978. In addition, it facilitates the activities of the NGOs in the country, and ensures their accountability to the state and thereby to the people of the country. Initially, it was located in the President Secretariat's Public Division and later on, in the Cabinet Division. In 1991, with the re-introduction parliamentary form of government, the NGOAB was placed under the Prime Minister's Office as a regulatory body of the NGOs with the status of a government department. Bureau has no field office, therefore heavily rely on Deputy Commissioners and Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNO) for monitoring the NGO project/ program activities at the field level. Deputy Commissioners (except 3 districts of Chittagong Hill Track) once in a month hold coordination meeting with NGOs working in the districts. In Chittagong hill track Districts Chairman, District council held coordination meeting where all Districts level officers and NGOs attend the meetings. Meeting minutes detailing the project and non-project activities of NGOs are sent to the bureau for review. Bureau approves the project proposals submitted by NGOs completing the form called FD-6; it includes project rationale, objectives, target group, year wise planned activities, and sources of foreign money and contact details of the donor. Bureau communicate with the line ministries for views on the project proposal as project proposal should be well aligned with national priorities and international agreed goals like SDGs. It should also avoid duplication of interventions and target the marginalized and vulnerable people. During emergency situation like flood or cyclone bureau approves project proposals called FD-7 in 24 hours mainly for distribution of relief materials. Local administration of affected area is kept informed while issuing approval of FD-7. Form FC-1 is used to receive one time foreign contribution. Mainly the faith based NGOs especially the Muslim charities channel one-off contribution for arranging iftar or Eid gift for the poor during Ramadan, or sacrificial animals in Eid ul Azha. NGOs much certify in the project proposal that they receive foreign donation or contribution from legal sources. Sources could be foundation, trust, government, education institution, or even individuals. As part of enforcing Anti Money Laundering Act 2012 and Combating financing of terrorism bureau has the responsibility to make sure that money being channelized by NGOs is from legal sources. Bureau also realizes government revenue-both tax (income tax, VAT etc) and non-tax (registration fee). Bureau always coordinates with NGOs, line ministries, different state agencies and development partners in discharging its duty as the regulatory authority. Here the spirit is to facilitate the NGO activities, not to regulate them only. Director General represent bureau in different committees where NGO issues are involved.
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Mandate items1
Mandate item, verbatim · The NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) was established in 1990 through an administrative order of the Government. Its prime objective is to provide one-stop …
We have not yet found the law or order that created this body.
We have not yet found who leads this body in a source we can cite.
What each source budgets for the year: a gross demand for grants, an allocation, or a state-owned enterprise's own budget (income, expenditure, net profit or deficit). The tag on each line says which. None of it is spending.
Demands for Grants unit served as this body
Operating Tk 9.15 crore
What was spent, by year, as the accounts or the body's own statements print it.
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes
Tk 6.14 crore
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes
Tk 5.30 crore
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes
Tk 5.83 crore
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes
Tk 6.35 crore
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes
Tk 6.50 crore
The body's own budget line1
The body's own budget position as the budget route serves it: budget_lines (Budget Speech Table-5 or Demands for Grants ministry lines), the Demands-for-Grants institutional units served as this body, the units printed under the ministry or division it stands for, and the reviewed MoF division crosswalk. Allocations are budgets, not spending.
Demands for Grants unit served as this body · Operating Tk 9.15 crore · FY2026-27 budget
MTBF actual column5
Sum over the body's institutional codes of rows in the regular actual column (actual year = book year minus 2); stale-header rows are listed with in_sum false. Unit 12201 counts only in book 2026-27 (Home Ministry secretariat); books 2022-23 to 2025-26 print it under the Public Security Division.
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes
Counts, shares and methods from e-GP award notices, never contractor names. How procurement competition is measured, and the national picture
e-GP awards whose procuring office resolves to the body
1 award, Tk 0.08 crore contract value
e-GP awards attached to the body1
E-GP contract awards whose procuring office resolves to this registry body (twin_trace_spine.body_entity_id), except that an office in procuring_office_entity counts under the body two readers agreed (status 'two-reader office link'); own awards only, nothing rolled up from child bodies. Money is the contract value on the award notice, not spending.
e-GP awards whose procuring office resolves to the body · 1 award, Tk 0.08 crore contract value · awards 31 Oct 2019 to 31 Oct 2019
We have not yet found the sites, buildings or other assets this body holds.
Headquarters place
Sher-e-bangla nagar, Dhaka district
Headquarters place1
Headquarters place, two readers · Sher-e-bangla nagar, Dhaka district
Dated event: founding
established
Dated events1
Dated events of the body (founding, began_operations, renamed, merged) as two readers read them, each quote verbatim in that reader's saved source. date_iso is served only where both readers' dates agree; otherwise the year only, with each reader's printed date and date_basis_a. note_a is reader A's note: where it names a predecessor body ('predecessor: ...', 'as ...') the event is the predecessor's, and the year is not this body's own founding.
Dated event, two readers: founding · established · 1990
23 different files (file hashes in How we know); 22 without a printed title are listed separately.
Bfiu Annual Report / Bfiu 2023 24
Document without a printed title
Document without a printed title
vat supplementary duty act 2012
who defends the defenders 2023
national strategy maternal health 2019 2030
govtwin_sdg_tracker/sdgs_revised_mapping_ministries_2022.pdf
209 passages in the twin's document library mention this body
Listed once per file (same sha256): an untitled file (2 rows); an untitled file (2 rows).
Corpus documents that name the body, with their source and file hash25
Corpus documents that print the body's name (a mention link, name or acronym match), listed only with the document's own source URL and the sha256 of its archived file; url_basis says where the URL is recorded.
Corpus document naming the body · Bfiu Annual Report / Bfiu 2023 24 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · Document without a printed title
The eleven things the twin looks for on every public body, and whether a sourced record answers each one here.
For researchers: the registry row as recorded, how the twin object was built, and every typed link.
Object id 160
ngoab.gov.bd/pages/static-pages/6922e09c933eb65569e27d02
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No provenance tier is recorded. Read from the registry of public bodies (BPL).
Registry of public bodies (BPL)
35,866 source rows · 35,866 objects built · 11.6 MB
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Nothing held for this body: Parent Division by the Allocation of Business; Parent Division by its agency list or MTBF book; Parent resolved by two readers; Parent body the office's own title names; Parent body the office's own title names (body added by lane REG1); Parent body whose own saved page lists the office (body added by lane FIELDPARENT); District the office's own title names; District from the office's own home page; District by rule from the office's own portal address; District from the LGD portal's own list; Containing district from the BBS census row; By rule: a committee of Parliament sits at the House; Address printed on the body's own site; Head-office address printed on the body's own site; Head-office address printed on the body's own site; Mandate inherited from the parent body; Mandate inherited from the parent body; Functions list on the body's own website; Functions section of the establishing act; Terms of reference in the gazette notification; Functions as printed on the body's own page; Functions list in the body's own document; Functions the body prints itself (own page, report or audited statements); Terms of reference in the constituting notification; Facts in the company's audited statements; Facts a third reader settled; Facts in the company's audited statements (image read); Functions list on the body's own site; Facts on the body's own website (rendered page); Facts in the body's own annual report (image read); Legal basis inherited from the parent body; Legal basis inherited from the parent body; Establishing act, functions section; Founding instrument; Instrument named on the body's own page; Establishing act on bdlaws; Gazette instrument that constitutes the body; Act or gazette notification that establishes or renames the body; Gazette notification that constitutes the council or committee; Act section that names the body; Act provision for this office class; Notification named on the body's own page; Instrument that establishes the body (act, Constitution article or Rules of Business Schedule I); By class: the statute for every body of this kind, and the register that lists this body; Constituting instrument in the body's own document; Cabinet Division notification constituting the committee; Chair or convener; Head of the body as its own page prints it; Head post and holder as the source prints them; Posts the field office's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Head post and holder on the body's own office-head page; Budget line through the parent body; Gross demands for grants of the ministry's Divisions; SOE budget books, budget and revised columns; UGC revised operating budget; UGC revised operating budget under the former name; Actuals printed for the budget division; Appropriation Accounts by year; SOE budget books, actual-year column; UGC annual reports, operating expenditure; Total expenditure in the body's own report; Total expenditure in the body's own report, round 2; Total expenditure in the body's own statements; Expense lines in the body's own statements; Expense lines in the company's audited statements; MTBF actual of the line that names the body; MTBF actual of the body's own budget unit; Total expenditure in the body's own audited statements; Actual expenditure in the body's own statements or accounts; MTBF actual of the project line that is the body; Expense lines in the audited statements (image read); MTBF actual under the body's former name; Finance Accounts, the body's unit line; e-GP awards the budget trace reaches; Procurement competition (e-GP); e-GP procuring offices; e-GP procuring offices, round 2; e-GP procuring offices matched by two readers; e-GP procuring offices matched by two readers, ministry-level pass; e-GP procuring offices, third reader; e-GP procuring entity names this office; e-GP contract award under the body's printed name; e-GP procuring offices matched to this local body by name and district; Procurement plans and award notices on the body's own website; e-GP contract award under the name the body prints on its own website; Award notices the body published; e-GP offices excluded from this body; Awards and facilities on the body's own website (rendered page); Sites named on the body's own page; Markets, terminals and other assets the body leases, allocates or runs, as its own page prints them; Operational sites on the body's own website; Operational sites on the body's own pages; Operational sites read again; Physical sites on the body's own page; Physical sites and owned buildings; Land and buildings in the audited statements; ADP projects building the body's facilities; Sites listed on the body's own website; Sites and administered institutions listed on the body's own website; Sites and land printed on the body's own website; Sites, land and facilities printed on the body's own website; Offices printed on the body's own website; Building named for the body, printed in its own publication or site; CAG audit findings; Facts in the body's own annual report; Documents that print the body's name, cited by a claim; Pages the field office's own portal published, with their file hash; PDFs the body's own site lists, with their file hash; PDFs the body's own portal published, with their file hash; Published PDFs whose tables print this body's name, with their file hash; Pages the union's own portal published, with their file hash; Annual reports; CAG audit reports; Established by; Dated events on the body's own pages; Dated events in the establishing act; Dated events in gazette instruments; Dated events in the establishing instrument; Dated events on the body's own page; Dated facts in the time layer; Dated events in the body's own document; Constitution and reconstitution dates; Dissolution by act; Statutory status; Notice on the statutory position; Founding date printed on the body's own site; Establishment or upgrade date printed in BBS District Statistics 2011 or on the body's own site; Gazette notices issued; Gazette notices that mention the body.
369 edges across 16 link types369 resolved
Link event of · from events
NGO Affairs Bureau founding 1990
Event class: founding
Matched by entity id (two-reader founding events) · ngoab.gov.bd/pages/static-pages/6922dd98933eb65569e1590e sha256 76146ee1d12b
Link mentions · from documents
4 narratives. BPL publications, narratives, stories and analyzers linked to this body by an exact name match: a tag, a narrative text binding (publication_bindings.parquet), or a series whose data_series.source names it.
Narrativeরোহিঙ্গা: প্রত্যাবাসনের মৃত্যু, হিসাবের জন্ম
content/narratives/2026-05-03-rohingya-niye-hisab
NGO Affairs Bureau: the text names it (publication_bindings: exact_name_en 'NGO Affairs Bureau', paragraph 49)
NarrativeAfter Repatriation Died
content/narratives/2026-05-03-rohingya-permanent-camp
NGO Affairs Bureau: the text names it (publication_bindings: exact_name_en 'NGO Affairs Bureau', paragraph 45)
Narrative39 Microfinance and NGOs
content/narratives/2026-09-06-bangladesh-2036-ch39-microfinance-ngos
NGO Affairs Bureau: the text names it (publication_bindings: exact_name_en 'NGO Affairs Bureau', paragraph 14)
Narrative52 Media, information and civil society
content/narratives/2026-09-06-bangladesh-2036-ch52-media-information-civil-society
NGO Affairs Bureau: the text names it (publication_bindings: exact_name_en 'NGO Affairs Bureau', paragraph 16)
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes · Tk 5.30 crore · FY2021-22
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes · Tk 5.83 crore · FY2022-23
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes · Tk 6.35 crore · FY2023-24
MTBF actual, summed over the body's institutional codes · Tk 6.50 crore · FY2024-25
Corpus document naming the body · Document without a printed title
Corpus document naming the body · egov master plan 2019 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · income tax act 2023 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · vat supplementary duty act 2012 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2015-16 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2022-23 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2023-24 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · who defends the defenders 2023 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · cyclone shelter mgmt policy · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · npdm 2010 2015 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · national strategy maternal health 2019 2030 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · tvet implementation plan · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2019 2020 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · govtwin_sdg_tracker/sdgs_revised_mapping_ministries_2022.pdf · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · sdgs revised mapping ministries 2022 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · bnha i 1996 97 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · bnha iv 1997 2012 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · 107
Corpus document naming the body · 50
Corpus document naming the body · 64
Corpus document naming the body · 95
Corpus document naming the body · Souvenir final
Corpus document naming the body · pdfjoiner-1 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: name · Passage id: 122944 · Mentions: 1
Matched by English name
eca101901c5f41329d08ce583e842be8
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: name · Passage id: 174940 · Mentions: 1
Matched by English name
The-State-of-Governance-in-Bangladesh-2007-Expectations-Commitments-Challenges
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: acronym and name · Passage id: 463508 · Mentions: 3
Matched by acronym and English name
Working-Paper Analysis of Voice and Agency 2024
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: acronym · Passage id: 484481 · Mentions: 2
Matched by acronym
A passage matched by more than one rule (English name and acronym) is listed once with both. Each passage links to its document; the corpus database's own hash, the same for every passage, is not shown as a document hash.
Link parent of · from bodies
Matched by entities.parent id · ngoab.gov.bd/pages/static-pages/6922e09c933eb65569e27d02
Link post in · from posts
Matched by explicit entity id
Matched by domain exact · ngoab.gov.bd
পরিচালক (নিবন্ধন ও অডিট )[যুগ্মসচিব]
Matched by domain exact · ngoab.gov.bd
পরিচালক (প্রকল্প-১)[যুগ্ম-সচিব][অতিরিক্ত দায়িত্ব]
Matched by domain exact · ngoab.gov.bd
পরিচালক(প্রকল্প-২) [যুগ্ম সচিব]
Matched by domain exact · ngoab.gov.bd
Link resolves to · from procuring offices
Resolution level: entity · Match confidence: 0.99
Matched by name exact and division name exact · e-GP procuring entity path (eprocure.gov.bd), Budget Speech Table-5 source
Resolution level: entity · Match confidence: 0.99
Matched by name exact and division name exact · e-GP procuring entity path (eprocure.gov.bd), Budget Speech Table-5 source
Link seated at · to places
Matched by the district's BBS code · ngoab.gov.bd/pages/static-pages/6922ddc8933eb65569e163b9 sha256 bca7fc361fc3
Link allocated to · from budget lines
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link allocates · from instruments
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Link constitutes · from instruments
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Link decided by · from decisions
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Link empowers · from instruments
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Link issued by · from instruments
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Link operates · to assets
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Link parent of · to bodies
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Link regulated by · from products
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Link executes · from projects
The ADP prints each executing agency as text with no registry id. The measured name match waits for a second reader before it is bound.
Decision points whose printed heading ties them to the body (link decided by), for this body and the bodies above it in the registry; each is an item of ALLOCATION OF BUSINESS AMONG THE DIFFERENT MINISTRIES AND DIVISIONS (Schedule I of the Rules of Business, 1996) (Revised up to February 2024).
This bodyNGO Affairs Bureaunone
The body above itPrime Minister's Office24 decisions24 resolved
Simulate (S1, −10%): the engine refused this body (HTTP 503): {"error":"pipeline check failed","dependents":["scenario:S1"],"datasets":[],"failing":[{"dependent":"scenario:S1","dataset":null,"check":"report","detail":"TWIN_PIPELINE_DIR is not set"}]}. Open in simulate for Prime Minister's Office, the body above it
Press coverage
Named in 2 articles since October 2016; number 135 among bodies in the last 12 months.
0 articles from October 2025 to September 2026, against 0 in the 12 months before.
Months with an article: August 2019 (1 article of 653).
The total counts every outlet in the corpus. The 12-month comparison, shares and spikes use The Daily Star (business pages before 2026) and Prothom Alo English from 2018, so they measure attention within that corpus, not the whole press. Company press releases are left out throughout. A spike is a month at least three standard deviations above the body's previous 24 months. Bodies are matched by name or acronym in the headline and summary.
Lenses
5 BDPolicyLab pages show this body.
The Connections
Matched by its name in the page's text.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
GovTwin institution
Matched by its number in the registry of public bodies.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
The NGO Sector
Matched by its name in the page's text.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
Watch tracker
Matched by its registered name in the page's data.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
Watch record
Matched by its registered name in the page's data.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
Forecasts: none of the 8 registered problems reads data this node appears in. The scoreboard
BDPolicyLab's writing, keyed to this node
None of the 118 published issues (21 May 2026 to 19 Sept 2026) names this body. Matched by the body's name (NGO Affairs Bureau) printed in the issue.
The Daily Advisor is BPL's own AI-drafted policy writing, not evidence about this body.
Below: 5 BPL pages carry this body.
0 dated facts held for this body; 0 in force or dated on or before this day; 6 named people in post.
No establishing Act with a printed date is held for this body; no date is inferred.
In post on this day:
Only facts with a date printed in a primary document: the act date on bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd, Bangladesh Gazette decisions published 2026-04-06 to 2026-09-17 (one parser's reading, not yet checked by a second), and, read by two readers, the amendment notes of Schedule I of the Rules of Business (revised up to February 2024) and the long title of the Act that establishes a body. Postings from Part II of the weekly Gazette 2015-2026 are one reader's reading (agy Gemini) checked by a code gate against the stored page; `readers` says whether a blind second reader agreed. No dated evidence is held for this body.