NFOWD runs under the management of a General Council and an 11 member Executive Council that is elected to office by the general members every two years. The day-to-day operations are run by the Secretariat based in Dhaka, headed by the Director.

The Executive Committee

The 8th Executive Committee was elected to Office in the Annual General Meeting held on 28th March 2006. While six of the portfolio holders were elected unopposed, this was only the second time in the history of NFOWD that ballots were needed to select the whole committee. Eight candidates contested against the five Member positions, and after peaceful elections, the following Executive Committee was declared in office:

President	Mr Khandaker Jahurul Alam	Center for Services & Information on Disability
Senior Vice President	Mr M A Baten	Society for the Welfare of the Intellectually Disabled - Bangladesh
Vice President	Ms Mohua Paul	Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed
Secretary General	Mr A H M Noman Khan	Center for Disability in Development
Assistant Secretary General	Mr M Khalilur Rahman	Bangladesh Organization for Disabled Advancement
Treasurer	Mr Z B M Bakht	Assistance for Blind Children
Member	Mr Farhad Ahmed Majumdar	LEPRA Bangladesh
Member	Mr Syed Qumrul Islam	Gram Sampad Unnayan Kendra
Member	Ms Masuda Farouk Ratna	Gram Bikash Shohayok Sangstha
Member	Mr. Mohd. Rajab Ali Khan Nozib	Green Disabled Foundation
Member	Mr. Obaidul Haque Bachchu	Bandhan Samaj Unnayan Sangstha

Thematic Groups & Committee

Over the last four years or so, the scope of intervention of NFOWD has been getting wider. It had required systematic and expert input to gear-up all planning and implementation. In order to cope with this, NFOWD had decided to initiate formation of Thematic Groups on specific broad areas of interventions. The focus and purpose of such formation was to consolidate pool of experts in planning and implementation of its intervention.

Based on the rationale, NFOWD decided to initiate Thematic Groups on following areas:

• Assistive Technology & Accessibility

• Community Based Rehabilitation

• Employment and job creation

• Inclusion of people with disabilities into education

• Prevention and early intervention of Disability

• Rights of children with disabilities

• Rights of women with disabilities

• Self-Help initiatives

Committee on Policy & Legislation on Disability, NFOWD also has a Committee, which overrides all the thematic groups and looks into & guides NFOWD in the policy & legislative issues.