A meeting of SSFP’s Membership Council (MC) was held on May 07, 2012 in SSFP’s Conference Room. The objectives of the meeting were to review policy issues of the network, share performance of the network and strategies for close out. Mr. Al Husainy, Charman of Swanirvar Bangladesh, chaired the session. The contact persons of SSFP partnering NGOs and representatives from SSFP attended the meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, to strengthen the executive leadership of the network, Mr. Ranjan Karmaker of Steps Towards Development, made a presentation on ‘Gender and Gender Responsive Organization.’ MC representatives actively participated in this discussion. Through SSFP’s baseline needs assessment of the institutional capacity of network NGOs, gender was identified as an area of focus for future capacity building.