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.

BBDN is a non-profit trust established by the BEF to create a disability-inclusive labour market system in Bangladesh.

Indigenous people generally follow the custom of communal ownership of land. Therefore, their land was not registered during the British colonial period.

A whole-of-society approach should be adopted by both government and non-government bodies, including volunteer organisations and the private sector, to ensure sustainable development in Bangladesh, according to speakers at a virtual discussion.

Session 1: “Setting up effective urban governance mechanisms to manage urban hazards”

WARBE (Welfare Association for the Rights of Bangladeshi Emigrants) Development Foundation, CARE Bangladesh and The Daily Star jointly organised an online discussion titled "Annual Dialogue on Women Migration with the Relevant Government Officials, CSOs & Stakeholders" on August 26, 2021. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.

Speakers at an online discussion recommended establishment of a platform where companies, NGOs and the government can collaborate to better utilise Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds,  and, thus, ensure sustainability of the CSR projects.

Speakers at an online discussion recommended that companies increase collaboration amongst themselves and with the public sector to ensure their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes are bringing about long-term sustainable development. This collaboration will allow companies to develop more sustainable projects that will better address the issues they work with.