Future Ready Bangladesh: AI Skills and Youth Employability in the Digital Economy
23 August 2026
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Roundtables
Strengthening Cyber Resilience for MSMEs: Tackling Financial Fraud and Improving Grievance Mechanisms
17 August 2026
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Roundtables
Public-Private Partnership for Hepatitis Elimination in Bangladesh
16 August 2026
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Roundtables
Role of Nutrition Entrepreneurs in Accelerating Nutrition-Sensitive Integration in Bangladesh
9 July 2026
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Roundtables
From challenge to choice: Strengthening Bangladesh’s Family Planning Program
29 June 2026
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Roundtables
Closing the Gap: Strengthening Women’s Voice In National and Local Elections
23 June 2026
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Roundtables
Ethical use of artificial intelligence in Bangladeshi news media
22 June 2026
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Roundtables
Budget 2026–27: Strengthening Investment in Social Sectors
1 June 2026
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Roundtables
Mental Health: The Role of Media
To improve our mental health ecosystem journalists and mental health professionals should work together. We need to make people aware of the importance of mental health. We have to take care of our mental health and help others with mental health problems.
19 September 2022
Policy Café on Women’s Safety in Public Places
Policy Café is one of the signature programmes of the Centre for Research and Information (CRI). It provides a platform where young people can discuss various public interest issues with relevant stakeholders from the public and private sectors.
5 September 2022
Rivers and our future
The Daily Star organised a roundtable titled ‘Rivers and Our Future’ on June 4, 2022. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
11 August 2022
Invest more in girls
The Tipping Point Initiative of CARE Bangladesh addresses the root causes of child early and forced marriage (CEFM) through gender transformative social norms programming.
3 August 2022
Allocations for children in Bangladesh’s public expenditure
In FY2015-16, the government, for the first time, prepared a separate budget for children. This was a reflection of the government’s commitment towards raising the welfare of Bangladesh’s children.
26 July 2022
Issues faced by plainland ethnic minority communities in Bangladesh
Traidcraft Exchange has been implementing the ‘Fighting Forced Labour with Adivasi and Dalit Communities in South Asia (MUKTEE)’ Project in Bangladesh since 2019.
19 July 2022
Digital transformation in justice system in Bangladesh
UNDP works with different actors in the justice sector with a specific focus on ensuring easily accessible, transparent, and equitable justice service delivery for everyone, particularly the poor and vulnerable.
6 July 2022
No worker should pay for a job
The ILO has been carrying out a specific initiative on fair recruitment since 2014. The Bangladesh government is a part of this initiative. The initiative is centred on some core principles.
27 June 2022
Implementation of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAP-WPS) was launched by the Bangladesh Government in November, 2019.
13 June 2022
Food fortification towards sustainable nutrition security
A study titled “Scoping of fortified and nutritious food products for the targeted households and strengthening the distribution network to the last mile” was commissioned by Joint Action for Nutrition Outcome (JANO),
25 May 2022
Bangladesh must ramp up efforts to solve Rohingya crisis: Analysts
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.
23 May 2022
Ethical recruitment is the answer
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.
27 April 2022
Unleashing the Potential of Agriculture Microinsurance Market in Bangladesh: Prospects and Challenges
Financial Institutions Division (FID) in association with the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) and the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh
26 April 2022
Intersectionality in Redressing Gender & DRR: #BreakingTheBias
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,
2 April 2022
Role of law in combatting air pollution and protecting public interest
In many cases, the environmental impact of a development project is not considered properly. This is not at all acceptable because it is clearly
10 March 2022
Industrial Rainwater Harvesting - A Sustainable Approach to Water Management
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.
25 February 2022
Changing perspective of CSBA: Opportunities and challenges
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.
11 February 2022
Disability Inclusive National Budget 2022-23
Access Bangladesh Foundation has been campaigning since 2014 and advocating to make the national budget disability-inclusive.
28 January 2022
Gender-based harassment and violence: Prevention requires coordinated initiatives
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.
21 January 2022
In Pursuit of Resurgence
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.
4 January 2022