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Bangladesh: A Brand Name in UN Peace-Keeping

September 17, 2015

The pledge of UN Under-Secretary General Atul Khare to appoint more Bangladeshis to commanding positions in UN Peace Keeping Operations and appreciating Bangladesh’s role in UN peace Keeping is refreshing.…

IRI explains its opinion survey at IRI-IID online seminar

September 16, 2015

International Republican Institute (IRI) and IID jointly have organized an online meeting on the recent IRI survey of Bangladesh public opinion. The online meeting took place at ekBangladesh.org.bd portal. The…

Analysis of IRI’s Survey of Public Opinion 2015

September 15, 2015

People of Bangladesh are optimistic about the country’s future. About 62% of the respondents said the country is heading in the right direction against 36% who think otherwise. Figure 1:…

Optimistic youth prefers democracy over economic growth

September 9, 2015

The Next Generation report 2015 reveals that 60 percent of the youth believe Bangladesh is heading in the right direction, and 82 percent believe democracy is more important than economic…

Policy and awareness, not isolation, needed to protect culture

August 23, 2015

Culture needs protection, but neither law enforcement nor isolation can do that. Rather, practicing, believing and creating awareness about the cultural identity are the only forces that can protect a…

Evidence-based approach to address gender-gap in voter list

August 20, 2015

An evidence-based approach in addressing the increasing gender-gap in national voter registration has been demanded by IID during a press briefing organized by the Election Working Group and several other…

Common monitoring platform for education to be developed

June 18, 2015

Government and non-government educationists have agreed to establish a common online platform to monitor the progress of education sector. IID and BRAC, in collaboration with the education ministries will develop…

Basic competencies low among primary students

June 18, 2015

IID-BRAC survey finds very low level of basic competencies at the primary level. For instance, only 24% students of class 3; only 47% students of class 4 and 63% student…

Education Budget for FY2015-16: Further Drop in Sectoral Priority

June 18, 2015

In the budget for FY2015-16 taka 31,605 crore has been allocated to education (for the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education), which is taka 2,392…

Political unrest negatively affects passing rate

June 18, 2015

[visualizer id=”5406″] Passing rates of public examinations were adversely affected by political unrest during the past four decades, shows IID. Evidently, a stable political environment is prerequisite to better education…

Gender budget remains a mere paperwork

May 28, 2015

The national budgeting process has been gender sensitized but that has somewhat failed to achieve the underlying objective of mainstreaming women empowerment in the process of resource allocation and utilization.…

Library landscape report presented

May 12, 2015

It is the most comprehensive and in-depth study of library and information services ever undertaken in Bangladesh. The survey identifies the challenges faced by libraries and offers a vision for…