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Evaluation of Sesame Workshop’s financial empowerment initiative

July 10, 2018

EDC, Education, Grassroots Connect, home

IID is conducting the evaluation of Sesame Workshop’s financial empowerment initiative, Dream, Save, Do: Financial Empowerment for Families. This initiative aims to create awareness among children and parents for the financial…

IID celebrates 5th anniversary promoting pluralism in public policy

April 4, 2018

home, IID Board Meeting, Roundtable

More than five years ago, IID began its journey to promote evidence-informed public policy for inclusive and informed development. On 31st March 2018 IID celebrated its 5th anniversary doing exactly…

IID welcomes its new Chairperson

April 2, 2018

home, IID Board Meeting

Asif Saleh, a senior director at BRAC and BRAC International, has been elected as the new Chairperson of IID during its recent annual general meeting. Asif Saleh is one of…

Strategic and effective policy implementation to promote gender parity

March 31, 2018

Communication, home, Participation, Prothom Alo, Roundtable, Vlog

Ever increasing gender based violence impedes practice of pluralism in the society and consequently hinders sustainable development. Hence it is high time to promote gender parity through strategic and effective…

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…

Review Migration Policies and Process Through Gender Lens

February 15, 2018

British Council, Fairer Labour Migration, home, Migration, Policy Forum, Policy Forum, PROKAS, RMMRU

All development work and government policies should be audited through the gender lens, since female migrants face different challenges and problems than male migrants throughout the whole process. Whenever any…

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’,…

Work Collaboratively to End Modern Slavery

January 31, 2018

British Council, Discussion, h6, home, PROKAS, Roundtable, UK aid

Slavery, which is thought to be legally abolished hundreds of years ago, still persists in the form of modern day slavery across the border. While millions of people are enslaved…

Transform libraries, transform lives

January 24, 2018

home, Library, LibraryP

The conversation on libraries is fast changing from frustrated musings to dreaming large, with a series of library modernization programs underway in Bangladesh, mentioned the speakers at a policy dialogue…