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Practical learning for safety of employees at home and abroad

August 16, 2018

Economic growth and employment, at home and abroad became general issue and an area of concern for the youth. The major areas of apprehension were expressed at IID’s Policy Forum…

A government hotline number for the pre-migration phase

August 9, 2018

Youth volunteers of IID’s Youth Network ‘Youth for Policy’ at a 5 day workshop in Barishal named ‘Policy Camp’ suggested introducing a government hotline number for potential Bangladeshi migrants to…

Extend Pre-departure Training duration for future migrants

July 26, 2018

Youth volunteers at an IID organized 5-day workshop in Chittagong named ‘Policy Camp’ suggested extending the training duration of the mandatory Pre-departure Training (PDT) as well as shifting the timing…

Evaluation of Sesame Workshop’s financial empowerment initiative

July 10, 2018

IID is conducting the evaluation of Sesame Workshop’s financial empowerment initiative, Dream, Save, Do: Financial Empowerment for Families. This initiative aims to create awareness among children and parents for the financial…

‘Jobless growth’ needs to be addressed by coordinated efforts

July 8, 2018

Globally, jobless growth has become a major concern as fast economic growth is not creating enough jobs, resulting in a high-growth-high-unemployment situation. Given Bangladesh’s huge demographic dividend of youth, it…

Vacancy: Consultant Needed to Evaluate the Early Childhood Education Project

April 25, 2018

IID is looking for a Qualitative Researcher to conduct the evaluation of a project that aims to create awareness among children and parents for the financial empowerment of the families. The consultant…

IID celebrates 5th anniversary promoting pluralism in public policy

April 4, 2018

More than five years ago, IID began its journey to promote evidence-informed public policy for inclusive and informed development. On 31st March 2018 IID celebrated its 5th anniversary doing exactly…

IID welcomes its new Chairperson

April 2, 2018

Asif Saleh, a senior director at BRAC and BRAC International, has been elected as the new Chairperson of IID during its recent annual general meeting. Asif Saleh is one of…

Strategic and effective policy implementation to promote gender parity

March 31, 2018

Ever increasing gender based violence impedes practice of pluralism in the society and consequently hinders sustainable development. Hence it is high time to promote gender parity through strategic and effective…

Achieving SDGs requires disability-inclusive budgeting

March 31, 2018

Disability, in recent times has been increasingly addressed as a mainstream rather than standalone focus of development initiatives. Thus to realize the motto of “leave no one behind” of SGD,…

Safe migration awareness campaigns require hassle free access to services

March 18, 2018

Information gap exists between the supply and demand side of information spectrum within the migration sector. Government needs to ensure a strong infrastructural support for migration- training officers, integrating middleman…

Review Migration Policies and Process Through Gender Lens

February 15, 2018

All development work and government policies should be audited through the gender lens, since female migrants face different challenges and problems than male migrants throughout the whole process. Whenever any…