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Collaborative efforts needed to ensure women’s political participation

December 4, 2018

Communication, home, NDI, Participation, Participatory Governance, Roundtable

Violence around politics affects people regardless of their gender identity. However, much of the violent incidents against women are mostly overlooked or not perceived as political violence. This discussion urged…

Migrant’s Manifesto: demanding political commitment for safe migration

November 25, 2018

BOMSA, Communication, Fairer Labour Migration, home, Participation, PROKAS, Prothom Alo, RMMRU, Roundtable, WARBE

The political leaders who will be elected in the 11th parliamentary election will have to make a commitment to the people about what they will do about the migrant issue.…

Extensive training required for Labour Attaché

November 24, 2018

BOMSA, Communication, Fairer Labour Migration, home, Participatory Governance, Policy Breakfast, PROKAS, RMMRU, WARBE

As hefty amount of remittance is sent from the Gulf countries by a great many Bangladeshi workers, it is imperative for Bangladeshi High Commissions to prioritise migration related services in…

Strengthening public-private partnership during electoral transition

October 22, 2018

Fairer Labour Migration, home, PROKAS, Workshop

Civil society and private sector leaders called for public dialogues with the political leaders to bring public aspirations into electoral commitments and to ensure smooth continuation of development works during…

IID gets internationally recognized for ‘Bibhui’

October 3, 2018

Fairer Labour Migration, home, Migration, Participation, PROKAS

IID’s Bibhui app has won the mBillionth Award South Asia for the year 2018 for providing feasible solutions to migration related problems. The mBillionth Award is presented for socially valuable…

Information, language and skills for fairer labor migration

August 31, 2018

CIPE, Fairer Labour Migration, HelloMP, home, Policy Forum

In the views of young volunteers; information, language and skills for fairer labor migration are major concerning issues. They also shared their experiences of interviewing the aspirant migrants in TTCs…

A government hotline number for the pre-migration phase

August 9, 2018

CIPE, Fairer Labour Migration, HelloMP, home, Policy Forum

Youth volunteers of IID’s Youth Network ‘Youth for Policy’ at a 5 day workshop in Barishal named ‘Policy Camp’ suggested introducing a government hotline number for potential Bangladeshi migrants to…

‘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…

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,…