Governance in Bangladesh: Innovations in Delivery of Public Service (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 68)

This book adopts the multidimensional nature of innovation as its point of focus and offers a comprehensive analysis of contemporary governance issues in Bangladesh. Each chapter views those issues from its own disciplinary perspective, but all share a common focus on the current process in the governance of innovation. The authors show how the processes of innovation and public service delivery are influenced while there is simultaneously a striving for a digital Bangladesh.

The book presents innovation as a complex phenomenon with multidisciplinary viewpoints affecting its governance. As well, new practices, developments, and empirical research are shown here. The aim is to point out the most persistent difficulties in public administration and public service delivery, with an emphasis on how to deliver public service in Bangladesh in a sustainable manner.

Although significant transformations have been made recently for a better organized public sphere, public services still must be more closely in line with what citizens need rather than what service providers are prepared to deliver.

This published work speaks strongly to a wide-ranging audience, from scholars of governance and innovation management to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students interested in public service delivery innovations in Bangladesh and South Asia. Indeed, the book serves as a text and valuable resource for postgraduate courses in politics, business administration, economics, political science, development, and governance in South Asia.

Md. Nurul Momen is a professor in the Department of Public Administration at University of Rajshahi (Bangladesh). Dr. Momen regularly teaches various courses on the broader field of governance, public administration and Development Administration. Dr. Momen has extensively published articles in the international journals, published books and chapters in different books, dealing in a range of debates in Public Policy and Law, Governance, and Public Sector Reform in South Asia. He has participated in many national and international seminar, workshops and conferences, and has been member of several professional networks, journal editorial boards, research institutes, and civil society organizations. As a Sub-Project Manager (SPM), Dr Momen has extensive experience in implementing a three years long World Bank project on enhancing the quality of higher education in Bangladesh.

 Jannatul Ferdous is serving as an Associate Professor, at the Department of Public Administration, Comilla University, Bangladesh. Dr. Ferdous received her bachelor's, master's, and MPhil in Public Administration from the University of Dhaka. She has a Ph.D. in Development Studies. Dr. Ferdous contributed extensively to refereed journals and chapters in books. She published seven books. Her current interest includes governance, e-governance, trust, civil service system, gender, public policy, climate change, gender, and development. Currently, she is serving as the Chair of the technical committee of the `Combating Gender-Based Violence' project of UN Women. She is also serving as a Convenor of the “Sexual Harassment Prevention Cell” of Comilla University.