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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
Government Watch
parliamentary committee
The government is prioritizing economic stabilization and inflation control while focusing on the transparent and timely implementation of development projects.
ECNEC approved eight development projects worth Tk 2,266.41 crore across water, transport, health, and education sectors.
ECNEC approved five development projects worth Tk 7,003.36 crore, including infrastructure for the Chinese Economic and Industrial Zone.
State Minister for Planning announced new initiatives to strengthen project monitoring via a centralized digital dashboard.
NEC is the apex political body for Bangladesh's development planning, chaired by the PM; its executive arm ECNEC (Finance Minister as chair, PM as alternate) handles individual project approvals above Tk 50 million. The Planning Division provides the secretariat; meetings are held at the NEC conference room, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. entity_type is set to 'parliamentary_committee' per schema constraint; NEC is constitutionally a cabinet-level inter-ministerial council, not a parliamentary committee in the legislature sense. The '9th Five Year Plan' label used by the user prompt refers to the BNP government's five-year strategic framework under preparation (July 2026-June 2030 period); the Tarique government rebranded it from the Hasina-era 9th FYP as a 'strategic plan' rather than a formal five-year plan. No primary source confirms that this framework was a formal agenda item at the 18 May 2026 NEC meeting alongside the ADP; the two processes are concurrent but distinct as of the verification date. annual_budget_bdt is null: no separate operating budget for the NEC secretariat is publicly disaggregated from the Planning Division's budget line. staff_count is null: Planning Commission staff are counted under the Planning Division, not disaggregated to NEC secretariat.