British Council

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…

Work Collaboratively to End Modern Slavery

January 31, 2018

British Council, Discussion, h6, 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…

symposium for library policy

January 24, 2018

Blog, British Council, V2, Vlog

The dialogue on ‘Libraries Unlimited: Transform libraries, transform lives’ was held on 23 and 24 January 2018 at British Council Auditorium and was jointly hosted by the British Council Bangladesh,…

Public Knowledge on Migration Remains Low Despite Ample of Available Information

December 22, 2017

British Council, Fairer Labour Migration, home, PROKAS, Research

About 50% people are unaware of the information and support services for safer migration provided by the Government or NGO’s. This has been revealed from the survey conducted by IID…

Local Library Condition : Challenges and opportunities

August 10, 2017

British Council, Library, LU, Policy Forum, Policy Forum

A Policy Forum was held at Jassore public Library on 10th August, 2017 as part of the Libraries Unlimited Policy and Advocacy series. IID, as the Policy Partner of the…

Partners meet for policy advocacy on fairer labour migration

January 26, 2017

BOMSA, British Council, Migration, PROKAS, RMMRU, WARBE, YPSA

IID hosted an experience sharing meeting with the partners of its policy advocacy initiative for fairer labour migration. The partner meeting was held on Thursday the 26 January 2017 at…

Education alone is not enough to fix high youth unemployment

July 23, 2016

ActionAid Bangladesh, British Council, Education, Research, ULAB

The Next Generation Report 2015 showed that the youth most commonly identify quality education (85 percent) and job experience (53 percent) as factors for finding a job. However, in terms…

Optimistic youth prefers democracy over economic growth

September 9, 2015

ActionAid Bangladesh, British Council, Research, ULAB

The Next Generation report 2015 reveals that 60 percent of the youth believe Bangladesh is heading in the right direction, and 82 percent believe democracy is more important than economic…

Library landscape report presented

May 12, 2015

British Council, ICT4D, Library Landscape Assessment, policies4libraries, Policy Analysis, Research, RTI

It is the most comprehensive and in-depth study of library and information services ever undertaken in Bangladesh. The survey identifies the challenges faced by libraries and offers a vision for…