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Secretary vowed to hold recruiting agencies on both sides responsible

November 23, 2019

Recruiting agencies at both sides need to be made responsible for failing to protect migrant workers and actions need to be taken against the unscrupulous visa traders at both the…

Assessment of all children: a priority of SDG 4

November 13, 2019

Since Bangladesh has already achieved better gender parity in children’s net & gross school enrollment and has increased adult literacy rate, poor learning scenario at primary level has become a…

IIDedu prepares for nation-wide assessment of SDG 4.1

November 11, 2019

SDG Indicator 4.1.1 calls for measurement of minimum proficiency levels of children at the end of primary and at the end of lower secondary. However, the ‘SDG progress report 2018’,…

Pre GFMD Tripartite National Consultation

October 29, 2019

The consultation aimed to set a localized and gender-responsive position for Bangladesh at the 12th Global Forum on Migration and Development Summit.

Making GFMD contextualized and gender-responsive

October 22, 2019

The global commitments on migration needs to be locally contextualized and gender-responsive— argued the experts at the national tripartite consultation that have set an example of partnership and collective action…

TVC on ‘Promoting safe migration’

October 7, 2019

The TVC on ‘Promoting safe migration’ was constructed to promote fairer and safer labour migration process.

Mutual recognition and partnership highlighted at ADD

October 2, 2019

CGCM organised a webinar among the members to discuss Bangladesh’s position in Fifth Ministerial Consultation of Abu Dhabi Dialogue 2019. The purpose of the webinar, which was held at IID…

IID at NEQMAP workshop on Transversal Competencies

September 19, 2019

Transversal competencies or the 21st century skills have been in the global discourse for a long time. However, employers have been reporting that children do not learn competencies that are highly…

Monitoring of SDG 4.1 requires common data platform

September 13, 2019

The Sustainable Development Goal 4.1 aims to ensure equitable and quality education for all and Indicator 4.1.1 calls for measurement of minimum proficiency levels of children at the end of…

Empowering youth to fix overseas employment issues in Bangladesh. IID’s 5-day Policy Camp

Youth involvement to solve overseas employment issues

September 12, 2019

Migrant’s lack of knowledge and skills, along with the slow and corrupt migration process are major obstacles to harness most out of overseas employment. Youth involvement in the grass-root level…

Co-create empathetic solutions to youth unemployment

August 30, 2019

Government and non-government actors should not impose solutions for youth, without an empathetic understanding of their problems. With this in mind, IID’s Policy Camp 2019 focused on empathetic understanding of…

CSOs unite to track global commitments on migration

August 12, 2019

A number of CSOs came together to form CSOs for Global Commitments on Migration (CGCM) to create a platform for advocating, implementing and monitoring global commitments on migration. The global…