Policy Breakfast

‘Jobless growth’ needs to be addressed by coordinated efforts

July 8, 2018

Budget & Economy, Communication, High Commission of Canada in Bangladesh, home, Policy Breakfast

Globally, jobless growth has become a major concern as fast economic growth is not creating enough jobs, resulting in a high-growth-high-unemployment situation. Given Bangladesh’s huge demographic dividend of youth, it…

Achieving SDGs requires disability-inclusive budgeting

March 31, 2018

High Commission of Canada in Bangladesh, home, Policy Breakfast

Disability, in recent times has been increasingly addressed as a mainstream rather than standalone focus of development initiatives. Thus to realize the motto of “leave no one behind” of SGD,…

Safe migration awareness campaigns require hassle free access to services

March 18, 2018

British Council, Fairer Labour Migration, home, Migration, Policy Breakfast, PROKAS

Information gap exists between the supply and demand side of information spectrum within the migration sector. Government needs to ensure a strong infrastructural support for migration- training officers, integrating middleman…

Political unity for women’s participation in politics

February 3, 2018

home, Policy Breakfast

Senior leaders from AL, BNP, JP and left parties came together at IID’s 15th Policy Breakfast to promote women’s direct participation in politics. Politics is still dominated by ‘men’s club’,…

Are grown-ups responsible for children’s apathy to reading?

October 8, 2017

Library, LibraryP, Policy Breakfast

Forcing children to focus only on text books, discouraging reading for pleasure, reduced parent-child engagement, not encouraging storytelling, are some of the ways adults are causing apathy among the children towards…

Increase youth employability through modern libraries

July 27, 2017

h7, home, Library, LibraryP, Policy Breakfast

Through access to information and technology, modern libraries can play a crucial role in youth employability, participants discussed at the IID policy breakfast held in Dhaka on 26 July 2017.…

Community ownership a must for future libraries

July 22, 2017

ICT4D, Library, LibraryP, policies4libraries, Policy Breakfast

Community engagement and community ownership of libraries need to be emphasized for the sustainability of any library movement, mentioned participants at the policy breakfast held in Dhaka on 22 July…

Intermediaries can be brought within the regulation system to reduce illegalities

May 10, 2017

Fairer Labour Migration, Participation, Participatory Governance, Policy Breakfast

On 10 May 2017, IID held its 11th Policy Breakfast on implementing fairer labour migration. The discussion mainly focused on the key challenges in achieving fairer migration process, and minimising the…

Affordable alternative energy key to stop household air pollution

November 30, 2016

Environment, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Participation, Participatory Governance, Policy Breakfast, SDG, United Nations Foundation

Air Pollution at the household level has adverse health effects on around 138 million people and contributing to 15% of total annual deaths including mostly women and children. Nine out…

Mayor Commits to “Healthy Dhaka”

July 28, 2016

Dhaka Debate, European Union, icddr,b, Participation, Participatory Governance, Policy Breakfast

IID’s 9th Policy Breakfast was held on Thursday the 28th in Dhaka city. The event was organized in partnership with icddr,b and supported by European Union. The topic was Urban Primary…