A German delegation, as part of their “Dialogue Tour to Bangladesh”, visited BILS office and participated in a discussion meeting with BILS leadership on Public Procurement, Ecological and Social Standard which was organised by BILS on February 13, 2017 at BILS Seminar Hall. They informed BILS leaders about “Sustainable Public Procurement in North Rhine-Westphalia” and got information about policy and practice on above mentioned issues.

Member of Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia Andrea Asch, Renate Hendricks, Frank Herrmann, Werner Jostmeier, Caroline Kremer and Josef Neumann, Representatives of newtrade nrw, Office for Sustainable Procurement of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia Dr. Lale Akgun and Tim Stoffel, Journalist with “Development and Cooperation” Sabina Barbara Balk, Head of Procurement, City of Solingen Roland Blank, Member of the Board at Fairtrade Germany Claudia Bruck, Sudwind representative Dr. Sabine Ferenschild, Engagement Global representative Felicitas Schuldes and Ann-Kathrin Voge , German Development Institute (DIE) Senior Researcher Dr. Andreas Stamm, Craftwork for Sustainability(Association) representative Timothy Vincent, BILS Secretary General Nazrul Islam Khan, Joint Secretary General Md. Zafrul Hasan, Secretary A M Nazim Uddin, FES Residential Representative Franziska Korn, Program Coordinator Aurunduty Rani, BILS Executive Director Syed Sultan Uddin Ahmmed and  Project Coordinator Nazma Yesmin participated in the meeting among others.