People
Board
Chairperson: 1 Person
Vice-chair: 1 Person
Secretary: 1 Person
Assistant Secretary: 1 Person
Treasurer: 1 Person
Total : 5( Five Persons)
Staff
Sixteen (16) {Full time 10 and part-time = 6
Members/Associates/Volunteers = 23
Board and ICA Bangladesh Team
Through its activities in training, networking and local community development the Dhaka Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA Bangladesh) has been working on capacity building for over 7 years on a totally voluntary basis, both in urban and rural areas. It is impressive what these volunteers, both committed professionals and local people, have been able to bring about with very limited resources. This is true both for their organisational work in and around Dhaka and their community development work in Ghoramara village (Shelter Project), in the Chandpur district 150km southwest of Dhaka where about 1500 people who had lost their land in the area had been given very basic housing and sanitation for a new community life. Dhaka ICA is guided by an honorary Executive Secretary and governed by a (voluntary) Board. It is supported by many Members, Associates, Guardians and Advisors in the country and is a member of the ICAI (International).
All members of the Board have been members of the organization for several years and serve in a voluntary capacity.
The chairperson of the Board is the ICAB Executive Director (honorary): Mr Mohammad Azizur Rahman (Assistant Professor of Department of Criminology and Police Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh. Other members are Vice-chairperson – Mrs Selina Akter, Secretary -Mohammad Abdul Bari Jamader, Assistant Secretary: Md. Moniruzzaman Ripon and Treasurer: Md. Naimul Islam.
Advisors of ICA Bangladesh include Prof. Dr A.I. Mahbub Uddin Ahmed, Dept of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Prof. Dr Abdul Hakim Sarker, Institute of Social Welfare and Research, University of Dhaka and Secretary General of Association for Correction and Social Reclamation (ACSR), Dr. A S M Amanullah, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Mr Ataur Rahman Miton, Country Director, Hunger Free World Bangladesh, Md. Shafiqur Rahman, ex Joint Secretary of the Government of Bangladesh and ex Director general of the National Institute of Local Government (NILG) and Nicolien van Eijsden, member of ICA Netherlands and of ICAI, on work assignment in Dhaka.
ICAB’s programs since its inception had three major thrusts: Capacity building among interested people who became volunteer staff and networking with others involved in organisational and community development; Courses in participatory decision making, facilitation and integrated development, taught by international and local volunteers; and human development project.