Can a budget be truly gender responsive if it does not adequately address the unpaid care burden that keeps millions of women out of the labour market?

Let’s be clear: daycare is not just a holding room, but a place of cognitive, social, and emotional growth for children as well.

Changes in work pattern, migration, inflation and climate change make the care arrangements that heavily rely on families unsuitable.

In the relentless pace of Dhaka, where surviving often means long hours of work, day-care centres have become a saviour for many families.

Despite the growing need, the number of quality daycare centres is still relatively low in the country.

When their daughter Jannatul Mawa was born two and a half years ago, Romana Begum and her husband struggled to make ends meet on their meagre Tk 6,000 monthly income.

Every morning the hustle of going to work and thinking of their little munchkins all day long often urges working parents to find a suitable daycare nearby. Here is a list of some of the daycare centres in Dhaka that you may be interested in checking out, depending on your location.

The three-room flat in the capital's Paltan falls silent only when the children leave this home every afternoon to return to where they