Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt (BWGED)

BWGED (Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt) is a flexible forum of progressive activists and organizations from allover Bangladesh. The BWGED was primarily formed by NGO Forum on ADB in 2013 to ensure safeguards for the affected communities and human rights defenders from adverse impacts of IFI financed projects. Later, the Working Group has been expanded to broader community of civil society by including External Debt Issues in 2016. The principle document, Bangladesh Peoples Safeguard Position Paper, is endorsed by the members in early 2016 through a workshop organized by the Forum and BWGED. BWGED and its members work on the issues of Environment & Climate, Energy & Power, Large Infrastructure and Water & Agriculture to protect rights of the smallholders and natural resource dependent communities.