News

Policy Breakfast is incredibly important to bring different stakeholders together [video]

November 30, 2016

Radha Muthiah, Chief Executive Officer, The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves attended our 10th Policy Breakfast on Clean Cooking and SDGs held on 30 November 2016 in Dhaka. She thinks,…

Affordable futureproof innovation is necessary for green and clean cookstove [video]

November 30, 2016

Khurshid Alam, Assistant Country Director, CCED Cluster, UNDP attended our 10th Policy Breakfast on Clean Cooking and SDGs held on 30 November 2016 in Dhaka. He said, collectively we came…

Government initiating action to combat challenges in providing clean cooking energy [video]

November 30, 2016

Nasrul Hamid, MP, Honorable state minister, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resourcesattended our 10th Policy Breakfast on Clean Cooking and SDGs held on 30 November 2016 in Dhaka. With…

‘Clean Cooking’ an important topic for the global environment concern [video]

November 30, 2016

Martine-van Hoogstraten, Charge De Affairs, Royal Dutch Embassy attended our 10th Policy Breakfast on Clean Cooking and SDGs held on 30 November 2016 in Dhaka. She feels that this topic…

Joint cooperation is needed to achieve a fruitful outcome [video]

November 30, 2016

Md. Anwarul Islam Sikder, Chairman, SREDA attended our 10th Policy Breakfast on Clean Cooking and SDGs held on 30 November 2016 in Dhaka. He stated that, policy breakfast was an…

Affordable alternative energy key to stop household air pollution

November 30, 2016

Air Pollution at the household level has adverse health effects on around 138 million people and contributing to 15% of total annual deaths including mostly women and children. Nine out…

IID to work with UN Foundation to fight household air pollution

November 20, 2016

IID and the United Nations Foundation have signed an agreement to do policy advocacy for reducing household air pollution (HAP) in Bangladesh. A study by Unicef reported that over 8,500…

IID at the Australia Awards South and West Asia Regional Alumni Workshop

November 17, 2016

IID is on the team representing Bangladesh at the Australia Awards South and West Asia Regional Alumni Workshop 2016, titled ‘Education for All’. The workshop is being held on the…

IID to work on inclusive public policy reform

November 6, 2016

IID launched project to work on multifaceted themes which would take the country’s policy making process of different sectors to the next level. Themes of the project are aligned with…

At an interview with the Daily Star, Syeed Ahamed, CEO of IID, argued that the proposed draft of the Digital Security Act will shrink space for intellectual discourse.

Digital Security Act will shrink space for intellectual discourse

October 31, 2016

At an interview with the Daily Star, Syeed Ahamed, CEO of IID, argued that the proposed draft of the Digital Security Act will shrink space for intellectual discourse. below is…

IID at the 18th UNESCO-APEID Conference on Quality Education

October 30, 2016

Citizen-led assessment can play a vital role in assessing the quality education, as indicated in the Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goal, highlighted IID in the 18th UNESCO-APEID Conference.…

Ghost of discredited article 57 in Digital Security Law

October 2, 2016

The ghost of highly discredited and ambiguous Article 57 of the ICT Act 2006 is reappearing in the new Digital Security Act, argued IID’s CEO Syeed Ahamed at a discussion…