21.   Workshops organized deal with problems by donor agencies, training, credits and marketing.

22.   However, her light-hearted comment that the RDP was muscling aside the donor agencies struck a chord in some delegates.

23.   Issues to be tackled at the conference included guidelines for determining priorities and joint endeavours between donor agencies and South African partners.

24.   A population fund agency has been set up to this end to handle assistance from donor agencies.

25.   Donor agencies and countries have long been asking the government to privatise several state-run enterprises in order to cut government expenditure.

26.   This has destroyed hopes that increased democracy would partner the economic growth promised by western donor agencies which backed the reform programme.

27.   Weestern countries and international donor agencies annually provide Bangladesh with some two billion dollars in development assistance.

28.   Representatives of donor agencies have pressed the government to set up the Anti-corruption Commission and the Human Rights Commission and the office of the Ombudsman immediately.

29.   The current negotiations for IMF assistance took a new turn with the donor agency deciding to make a massive apprisal afresh of the economic mismatch before deciding any assistance.

30.   The paper said repreentatives from donor agencies were expected to meet opposition leaders shortly to discuss the problem.