Tea Garden Youth Advocate for Women’s Rights in Sreemangal
We need to form a committee with five adolescent girls and five women, who will identify local problems and bring them to the president’s attention, so that solutions can be…
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Youth-Led Social Audit Uncovers Key Community Challenges Ahead of National Reforms
Youth across the country have played a vital and selfless role in bringing national attention to the urgent need to address deep-rooted structural imbalances in Bangladesh’s development journey. While urban…
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Greener Earth 2.0: Youth Take Climate Action to Local Communities
With 1,245 young people engaged across 20 districts, Youth for Policy’s (YfP) latest environmental campaign demonstrated that meaningful climate action can start at the grassroots and with youth in the…
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From Data to Action: Rethinking Foundational Learning as 2030 Nears
At the UNESCO Asia-Pacific education meeting in Bangkok, Syeed Ahamed of IID urged the global education community to use learning data as a springboard for change. With the 2030 deadline…
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Northern Floods: Youth Voices Demand Policy and Local Action
Every year during the monsoon, people in northern Bangladesh live in constant fear of devastating floods. For them, rain is not a joy but a warning — of disruption, destruction,…
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Driving Community Transformation with Youth-Led Social Accountability
Following Bangladesh’s recent democratic transition, significant changes have taken place across civil society and governance structures, influencing both the mindset and daily lives of its citizens. In this situation, introducing…
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Partners Unite to Systematize Practice-Based Knowledge for Youth-Led Advocacy and Accountability
To strengthen youth-led policy advocacy and accountability across Asia Pacific, partner organizations of the Education Out Loud (EOL) project partners gathered in Sri Lanka for a regional-level Learning Collaborative Workshop.…
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Who gets to author the future of AI in Bangladesh’s educational ecosystems?
Reclaiming imagination, inclusion, and integrity in an algorithmic age Shakil Ahmed & Kazi Ferdous Pavel This article was originally published in Dhaka Tribune on S12 Jun 2025. AI is no longer a…
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From Gen Z to Gen AI: Exploring Bangladesh’s AI Future
At the Brac Presents 1st S.N. Bose National Science Festival 2025, a thought-provoking panel titled “From Gen Z to Gen AI” brought together experts from policy, academia, technology, and youth…
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Many Faces of the Digital Divide: Why Access Alone Is Not Enough
Edtech and e-learning are not a silver bullet. They are just one piece of a complex and many-layered puzzle that we need to solve to deliver education to the masses.…
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Youth Powering Change with AI for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future
Bangladesh’s youth are leading AI-driven change—from policy dialogues on digital equity to activist graffiti—shaping an inclusive future through innovation, ethics, and social justice at the S.N. Bose Science Festival 2025.…
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BDF Dialogic 2025: Evidence-Based Youth Dialogue for an Inclusive and Democratic Bangladesh
BDF Dialogic 2025 empowered Bangladesh’s youth through evidence-based debates on democracy, education equity, and climate justice—bridging policy and activism with IID’s support to drive inclusive social change. Organized by Bangladesh…
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