Economic Relations Division

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Last updated: 5th February 2024

Work Distribution

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The organization of work in ERD is divided into Ten Wings. Each Wing has a number of Branches. A Branch is considered as a self-contained unit which again consisits of a number of Desks/Sections.

There are six categories of branches which are organized on the basis of specific areas of responsibilities as follows:

Programming: There are Branches based on specific development partners, countries and agencies. These Branches are responsible for promotion of economic cooperation with development partners falling within the sphere of their responsibilities.
Administration and General Services: for administrative and support service works
Coordination: for coordination works
External Economic Policy (EEP): for Policy and research matters
Foreign Aid Budget and Accounts (FABA): for Foreign Aid Accounts
Fellowship and Foundation (F&F): To mobilize foreign trainings and higher education fellowships programmes.

Detail information about the functions and activities of the Wings, Branches and Sections are furnished in hiararchial fashion in the following links:

Wing-1: America and Japan
Wing-2: World Bank
Wing-3: Administration and Middle East
Wing-4: United Nations
Wing-5: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Wing-6: Cordination and NORDIC
Wing-7: Europe
Wing-8: Asia and JEC, Fellowship and Foundation
Wing 9: Foreign Aid Budget and Accounts
Wing-10: Development Effectiveness

Economic Wings Abroad

ERD’s Economic Wings are responsible for:

Fostering and strengthening economic relations;
Mobilising foreign resource;
Vertical and horizontal expansion of development cooperation;
Cementing relations among investors of host and recipient country;
Maintaining relations among Finance and Commerce Ministries of both countries;
Updating changes and suggesting challenges confronting the economy in the rapidly changing world.

ERD has 9 (nine) Economic Wings in Bangladesh Missions Abroad which are as follows:

Economic Wing, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN, New York, USA
Economic Wing, Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Washington DC, USA
Economic Wing, Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Tokyo, Japan
Economic Wing, Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Economic Wing, Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Rome, Italy
Economic Wing, Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Brussels, Belgium
Economic Wing, Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Bangkok, Thailand
Economic Wing, Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Beijing, China
Economic Wing, High Commission of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, New Delhi, India.