Traditional aid no longer enough

Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Humaiun Kobir has said that relying only on traditional aid is no longer enough in today’s changing world.

Instead of depending on foreign help, countries should work together to build their own strengths, he said.

The adviser presented a newly proposed Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, introduced under the leadership of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Türkiye, reports UNB.
He delivered his remarks during a plenary session titled ‘Shrinking Aid and Capacity Building’, alongside distinguished speakers from international organizations, including the United Nations (UN), TIKA, and JICA, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday.

He specifically highlighted three main points: improving people’s skills for long-term progress, educating and empowering women so everyone benefits, and sharing of advances in medical technology to provide better healthcare.

Kobir called for a transformative approach – ‘aid for capacity building, skills development, and technology transfer’, as a forward-looking framework to address global development challenges in an era of shrinking aid.