Zahra Ayadi from SIDA visited LoCAL schemes in two drought-prone upazilas of Rajshahi District in Bangladesh.
She visited a pond that was excavated for retention of surface water in the drought-prone upazila of Godagari. She talked to the community people living around the pond. They face
difficulties in accessing waterbodies in dry season. Additionally, over extraction of ground water during the irrigation season depletes water table in the area and dry-up surface waterbodies. Around 50 families belonging to et...
A regional exchange workshop was organized at the very end of the Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) learning and good practices documentation process. It aimed to establish a dialogue among the community members, a selection of national and international experts, the consultant team leading the documentation, and UNDP.
The workshop was organized at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC), Dhaka during March 20-21, 2016. The workshop featured the findings from the ‘Documentation of UPPR Learning and Good Practices’ – the country’s single largest urban poverty reduction project which was implemented during 2008-2015.
UNDP hosted the two days long regional exchange workshop to validate multiple lessons
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WaterAid Bangladesh has launched the “Bangladesh country programme strategy 2016-2021,reaching everyone, everywhere always, with improved WASH” at a city hotel in the capital today, 11 February, 2016 (Thursday).
Country program strategy of Bangladesh is the strategy document that will guide the programmatic approaches, design, partnerships and delivery mechanism of WaterAid Bangladesh in the next five years.Under this programme strategy WaterAid Bangladesh is to address WASH as a much more integrated component of overall development and achieving SDG 6 of which zero open defecation is only the beginning.
Roxana Quader, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare; Karin McDonald, Head of Development Cooperation, SIDA and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Sweden; ...
The Asia Foundation Bangladesh organized a three-day training from September 13-15, 2015, in CBCB Centre in the city for 25 youth leaders (Secretariat members of the YASC Youth Network) who were selected based on their existing roles as youth leaders and past or ongoing efforts to foster independent participation of youth in civic consciousness and promoting good governance, says a press release.
The training includes leadership, organizational management, communications, proposal development, and fundraising skills related to organizational strengthening and operational
Shiseido’s activity in Bangladesh to improve social status and lifestyle of rural women by skincare products was recognized as “Business Call to Action*1 (hereinafter, “BCtA”)” led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This is the first time for an Asian cosmetic company to be recognized.
“to inspire a life of beauty and culture”
In this activity, for rural Bangladesh women with relatively low income, Shiseido has been introducing skincare products (“Les DIVAS”*2), which were developed specially for the local people, as well as educ...
The South Asia Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (SAWES), with support from the U.S. Department of State and The Asia Foundation, organized a Public-Private Dialogue on the “State of access to finance by women entrepreneurs” on Monday, September 7, 2015, at The Daily Star Center. The Public Private Dialogue (PPD) was focus on the status of implementation of the Government’s access to finance commitments for women entrepreneurs through two sessions: 1) Government oversight of its financial access commitments for women entrepreneurs; and 2) Enabling environment for female staff and women entrepreneurs in financial institutions.
