The Rohingya crisis has gotten more complicated since the takeover by the Myanmar military junta, said analysts, calling for Bangladesh to ramp up its efforts on all frontiers to resolve this issue.

The Government of Bangladesh’s prioritisation of remittances as an important tool to support development and drive Bangladesh’s economy further is reflected in their migration-related programmes and planning.

Financial Institutions Division (FID) in association with the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) and the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh

We are partnering with a project called Gender Responsive Resilience and Intersectionality in Policy and Practice (GRRIPP) which is a 4-year-long global collaboration and knowledge-exchange project,

In many cases, the environmental impact of a development project is not considered properly. This is not at all acceptable because it is clearly

BGMEA and WaterAid organised a roundtable titled ‘Industrial Rainwater Harvesting - A Sustainable Approach to Water Management’ on February 15, 2022. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.

Background: Bangladesh’s commitment to its citizens and the international community necessitate a solution to the high maternal mortality ratio, which is driven by inequitable access to skilled and facility-based childbirth services.

Access Bangladesh Foundation has been campaigning since 2014 and advocating to make the national budget disability-inclusive.

Gender Platform Bangladesh in association with The Daily Star organised a roundtable titled ‘Gender-based harassment and violence: Prevention requires coordinated initiatives’ on December 29, 2021. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.

In this session, speakers focused on how businesses can properly address ongoing and future crises to achieve sustainability, and how organisational leaders could rise to the occasion with appropriate and effective strategy, vision, mission and business models that determine the sustainability of a business.

Because the Population Council is a relatively new organisation working in humanitarian settings and in Cox’s Bazar, I would like to take the opportunity to introduce the Council. Population Council is an international non-governmental research organisation that is headquartered in New York.

Bangladesh has performed impressively in different socio-economic indicators. However, there remain many challenges and much more work to be done for women’s empowerment.

The Ashshash project aims to support 4,500 human trafficking survivors (70 percent women) to help them reintegrate into society through psychosocial counselling, skills and entrepreneurship training, and sustainable employment. Additionally,

The Zila Parishad (district council) is one of the key changemakers at the district level since it is responsible for coordinating the overall

In today’s roundtable, we will discuss how poverty has been changing over time in Bangladesh. I want to highlight that urban poverty is becoming the dominant form of poverty in the country. We also have the challenges of climate-induced poverty and pandemic-induced poverty. Besides, we have to tackle the risk of falling into the middle-income trap.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh. In the past 50 years, we have overcome numerous obstacles to get to where we are today. The women of Bangladesh have also experienced this progress despite the countless obstacles in their way.

Studying abroad at a world-renowned institute is the dream of many students in Bangladesh. However, handling the finances and tackling the intricacies of applying abroad require some assistance.

The Daily Star in association with the Strengthening Institutional Capacity for SDGs Achievement in Bangladesh (SC4SDG) Project of UNDP Bangladesh and UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals project

After eight divisional dialogues spanning eight districts of the country, the CSR Dialogue concluded with the final programme titled CSR Dialogue: Dhaka on September 9, 2021.

In our country, we have always been reactive instead of proactive. As we are seeing now, a large number of consumers have been exploited by some unscrupulous e-commerce enterprises.