The Daily Star in association with Citizen's Platform for SDGs and Plan International Bangladesh organised a virtual policy dialogue titled "Voluntary National Review 2020 and Youth Perspectives" on July 16, 2020. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
Eighteen Bangladeshi Community Radio Broadcasters has started broadcasting program on Coronavirus Education for the rural people about the virus and the precautionary measures needed to escape the infection for making aware since March 01, 2020.
Cities Alliance has launched a new Innovation Call for Proposals to support affordable, accessible and innovative climate adaptation projects at community level. We are looking at initiatives that improve the capacity of the urban poor to address the potential impacts of climate change and, in particular, the impacts on women, young people, vulnerable and underrepresented groups.
Disability Alliance on SDGs Bangladesh and NGO Affairs Bureau of Bangladesh have jointly organised the dissemination event of the Baseline Report ‘Sustainable Development Goals and Disability” on October 25, 2019 with great success. The key focal person of the government of Bangladesh on SDGs, Md. Abul Kamal Azad, Principal Coordinator (SDGs), Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh attended the baseline launching event as the chief guest
The world today will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Twelve years back, the United Nations voted to declare the date as the “International Day of Non-Violence.” When people usually speak about this iconic persona, they often highlight him as a great spiritual leader, who conceived and pursued the ideology of Satyagraha; he had been a nationalist, anti-colonial leader who paved the way for the independence of this sub-continent.
BANGLADESH attained its interim graduation from the least developed country to middle-income status in 2018 and is expected to achieve the status permanently in 2024 if it succeeds to meet conditions based on which the status is given by the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations.
This year the meeting of HLPF (High-level Political Forum) on Sustainable Development will be held in New York during 9-18 July. HLPF is an annual platform of the United Nations for conducting global dialogue on the 2030 Development Agenda.
ব্রতী সমাজ কল্যাণ সংস্থা একটি অধিকার ভিত্তিক সংগঠন। সংস্থাটি ২০০১ সাল থেকে প্রান্তিক জনগোষ্ঠি বিশেষ করে আদিবাসী জনগনের অধিকার আদায়ে কাজ করে আসছে। “সবাই মিলে ভাবো, নতুন কিছু করো, নারী-পুরুষ সমতার নতুন বিশ্ব গড়ো” ২০১৯ সালের আন্তর্জাতিক নারী দিবসের এই প্রতিপাদ্য বিষয়কে সামনে রেখে প্রতি বছরের ন্যায় এবারও ব্রতী সমাজ কল্যাণ সংস্থা ‘মানুষের জন্য ফাউন্ডেশন’ এর সহযোগিতায়, উপজেলা প্রশাসন, উপজেলা মহিলা বিষয়ক কর্মকর্তার কার্যালয়, জাতীয় মহিলা সংস্থার সাথে যৌথভাবে আন্তর্জাতিক নারী দিবস উদযাপন করে।
In an exclusive interview with the Dhaka Tribune's Niaz Mahmud, Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) CEO Ferdaus Ara Begum discusses the organization’s activities and role in the country’s economy for the near future.
At a discussion on SDG implementation, speakers said it will be difficult for Bangladesh to achieve the set goals without creating jobs for the unemployed youth, and we agree with this assessment. Growing unemployment among the young has become a major cause for concern in recent years, as according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics' Labour Force Survey 2016-2017, youth unemployment was more than double the overall unemployment rate, recording a double-digit figure of 10.6 percent.
