Daily Archives: March 10, 2022

BWCCI has celebrated the IWD 2022 at its secretariat in Dhaka on 8^th March 2022. Ms. Selima Ahmad, President, BWCCI joined the program virtually from abroad and wished all the members with her welcome speech. Ms. Sangita Ahmed, Senior Vice President of BWCCI and all the Board of Directors, general members and BWCCI’s staffs joined the program. Ms. Selima Ahmad, President, BWCCI said that collectively we can “Break the Bias” through the economic empowerment of women.  President has inspired all the women entrepreneurs to come forward and work strongly for the development of the country. At the same time, BWCCI’s divisional offices celebrated the IWD 2022 in each division with the divisional members. 

On the eve of the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022, an MoU has been signed on 7th March 2022 between BWCCI and Standard Chartered Bank. On behalf of Ms. Selima Ahmad, President, BWCCI the MoU has been signed by Ms. Sangita Ahmed, Senior Vice President of BWCCI and Sabbir Ahmed, Head, Consumer, Private and Business Banking, Bangladesh. Among the BWCCI’s Board of Directors Ms. Sabina Alam, Ms. Selina Quader, Ms. Abida Ali, Ms. Lipi Khandkar and Ms. Munmun Rahman were present there along with the Officials of BWCCI. Mr. Shawkat Alam, General Manager Business Banking, Mr. Mishael Abu Imam, Head, Business Banking Products, Mr. Jalaluddin Baybers, Head, Priority Sector Lending, Nusha Tabassum, Product Manager Business Banking and Shafwat Adnan Alam, Product Manager Business Banking joined the ceremony from SCB. The objective of the MoU is to work jointly on the access to finance for women entrepreneurs to empower them economically. SCB will provide loans to BWCCI’s eligible members on the basis of BWCCI’s reference.

An MoU has been signed on 6^th March 2022 between BWCCI and LightCastle, Bangladesh. On behalf of Ms. Selima Ahmad, President, BWCCI the MoU has been signed by Ms. Sangita Ahmed, Senior Vice President of BWCCI and Mr. Ivdad A.K Mojlish, Managing Director, LightCastle. Ms. Ridma Khan, Director, BWCCI and other High Officials from both the parties were present there. The term of this MoU is for the duration of 03 months. The objective of the MoU is to conduct needs assessment, develop capacity of women entrepreneurs through training on Facebook program modules and to conduct policy dialogues with the key policy stakeholders on opportunities for digital commerce.