Dr. Nurul Sakib
2022 IVLP Impact Award Project: University Students Attitudes on Whistleblowing - Awareness, Progress and Challenges of Implementation at the Public Sectors in BangladeshBangladesh
Dr. Nurul Huda Sakib received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia in 2018. He has over 14 years of teaching, research and consultancy experiences. Dr. Sakib also taught Public Sector Ethics and Corruption at the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney as a lecturer and guest faculty from 2016 to 2017. Since January 2020 he has acted as an adjunct faculty of Bangladesh University of Professionals and North South University, Bangladesh.
Additionally, Dr. Sakib also acts as a research supervisor at the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre. He has published over 20 articles that appeared in journals like the Asian Journal of Political Science, Routledge, and the Chinese Political Science Review, Springer. He is also one of the contributing authors of the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, edited by Professor Ali Farazmand. Dr Sakib has presented numerous research papers at Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, Griffith, Fudan, The Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Bangladesh. He regularly contributes writing blogs at Asia Global Institute, The University of Hong Kong, The Loop in European Consortium for Political Science and South Asia Centre, London School of Economics. Dr. Sakib is an alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Program on Transparency and Accountability in Government Exchange Program by the U.S. Government in 2021. He is also working on a varieties of democracy project, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden as a country expert.
IVLP Impact Award Project: University Students Attitudes on Whistleblowing - Awareness, Progress and Challenges of Implementation at the Public Sectors in Bangladesh
Whistleblowing is a popular ethical endeavor for raising concerns about wrongdoing in the public sector worldwide. Bangladesh adopted the Whistleblower Protection Act-2011 for the legal protection of the whistleblowers, but there has been little development of the act since its implementation.
Due to the shortcomings of the public service system, the project’s goal was to develop awareness among university students against any malpractices in the public sector through whistleblowing. We believe the positive change in public service in terms of bringing transparency, reducing corruption and raising awareness will come through the younger generation as they will lead the country in the future. This project consisted of several intensive workshops for 80 students at four different universities interested in pursuing careers in public service and majoring in political science, governance, international relations, economics, business and other related subjects. The participants were from Jahangirnagar University, Barisal University, Noakhali Science and Technology University and Gopalganj University. The impact of the project was significant as a corruption-free generation can make a corruption-free public sector which would lead the Bangladesh to be on par with developed countries and beyond through Vision 2041, a national strategic plan created by the government to develop the socio-economic standing of the country. During the workshop, the students expressed their understanding and mentioned some of the key challenges to whistleblowing in Bangladesh, such as fear, the Digital Security Act, political elite influence, and so on. Through social media and other news outlets, it is believed that more than 10 thousand people were able to know about the project.
IVLP Exchange Experience
Dr. Nurul was a participant in the IVLP Project Transparency and Accountability in Government, organized by the U.S. Department of State and Meridian International Center.
U.S. Communities Visited Virtually
Washington, DC; Cininnati, OH; Columbus, OH; Charleston, SC