News – IID

Evaluation of Sesame Workshop’s financial empowerment initiative

July 10, 2018

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…

‘Jobless growth’ needs to be addressed by coordinated efforts

July 8, 2018

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…

IID celebrates 5th anniversary promoting pluralism in public policy

April 4, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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…

Exposure Visit to BMET, Jessore for #MigrantFirst

February 14, 2018

IID recently visited BMET on 14th February 2018 in Jessore as to collect one on one stories of migrants as a part of Migrants First (প্রবাসী প্রথম), social media campaign.…

Barisal Policy Forum: Political Empowerment of Women to Stop Gender-based Violence

February 12, 2018

An engaging discussion at Barisal Policy Forum at the 12th of January, 2018 was on three issues: violence against women, faith based violence and youth on election. The event was…

Political unity for women’s participation in politics

February 3, 2018

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’,…

‘বিভুঁই’ (Bibhui) app has hit the market

February 2, 2018

Aiming to serve Bangladeshi labour migrants in each and every corner of the world, IID released ‘বিভুঁই’ (Bibhui) in iOS app store, an app that provides feasible solution to most…