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26 Oct 2014
Visiting Assistant Secretary General and Director at the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy of UNDP Mr Michael O’Neill commended Bangladeshi people’s resilience especially in adapting to climate change and fighting with urban poverty while visiting UNDP supported projects in Barguna and Dhaka.
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21 Oct 2014
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16 Oct 2014
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21 Sep 2014
On Sunday, 21 September Bangladesh hosted the annual Social Good Summit 2014 at the Bangabandhu International Convention Center where a vibrant dialogue took place on how technology, innovation and new media can be used to make the world a better place.
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17 Sep 2014
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) jointly organized a celebratory event to mark the 40th Anniversary of Bangladesh’s Membership to the United Nations. The event was held on Wednesday 17 September 2014, at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium, Dhaka.
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16 Sep 2014
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07 Sep 2014
MDG Bangladesh Progress Report 2013 launched
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09 Aug 2014
The International day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was celebrated all over Bangladesh by the indigenous peoples and the civil society. The main event was held at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on August 9, 2014.
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24 Jul 2014
For some officials in the government and development organisation sectors, the day was more auspicious as they were part of an elaborate launch of the ‘Human Development Report 2014’, jointly organised by the Economic Relations Division (ERD) and UNDP Bangladesh.
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13 Jun 2014
Nikhat is a university student from Dhaka, and she decided to start campaigning to stop violence against women after attending the UNDP and UK Aid sponsored Youth Leadership Summit 2014 earlier in June. “My parents read me horror stories from the newspaper every day. I want to stop being scared, I want to walk around alone, ride a bicycle, and have a job,” she said.
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17 Apr 2014
In line with the inevitable global shift towards emerging South, Bangladesh has made a timely call for better sharing of ideas and Information on development successes among the Southern nations at the first High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership that ended in Mexico on Wednesday, April 16.
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17 Apr 2014
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh, organised the launch of the 2nd phase of the ‘Global Joint Programme on Mainstreaming Migration into National Development Strategies' at the Hotel Purbani in Dhaka. The programme is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and jointly implemented by IOM-UNDP globally.
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16 Apr 2014
A launching ceremony of the book titled ‘Social Protection in Bangladesh: Building Effective Social Safety Nets and Ladders out of Poverty’ was held on April 16, 2014 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC). The book launching event was organised jointly by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), University Press Limited (UPL), Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC), and Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester.
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10 Apr 2014
Hundreds of enthusiastic visitors including university teachers, students, government officials, gender and women development activists, members of the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and NGOs flocked to the stall jointly set up by Upazila Governance Project (UZGP) and Union Parishad Governance Project (UPGP) in a Gender Fair in Begum Rokeya University campus in Rangpur on April 8-10, 2014.
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10 Apr 2014
On April 10, 2014, the Communications Minister Obaidul Quader inaugurated 10 Digital Buses on BRTC’s Motijheel-Uttara route at the Farmgate Bus Stand. State Minister for Post, ICT and Telecommunications ministry, Junaid Ahmed Palak, was also present at the launching of the initiative that was implemented with the technical support of Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office, funded by UNDP and USAID.
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10 Apr 2014
The Officers attending the BPATC 65th Senior Staff Course at Savar paid the UNDP Country Office a visit on April 10, 2014. The 45 day long 65th Senior Staff Course (SSC) began on March 23, 2014 with a total of 29 officials of which 27 are Joint Secretaries to the government while two officials are from the defence services of Bangladesh.
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27 Mar 2014
Unlike previous years, Rina Begum, 36, a mother of three kids, is not very worried about sending her kids to schools during the upcoming rainy season.
The housewife from North Karuna village of Hosnabad Union under Betagi Upazila of Borguna district recalls, ‘Earlier, rainy season usually meant loss of school days. Rainfall during the four-month period made the roads connecting nearby villages to schools almost inaccessible. Children could hardly use these roads to get to school, leading to loss in school days.’
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13 Mar 2014
Nazma Begum (40), a poor woman from Pirganj upazila in Bangladesh, is now sure that her children will not go hungry and can continue their schooling.
Earlier, struggling with sheer poverty, she was scrambling to find a work to maintain her six-member family, since her husband became bed-ridden due to a bone-related disease, two years ago.
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13 Mar 2014
The incorporation of ICT in Court system has significantly improved the overall service delivery at the Court. Due to the intervention of JUST, about 86 per cent of judges in the Court premises are now using ICT tools to prepare verdicts and provide inputs into cause list compared to just 20 per cent in 2012.
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22 Feb 2014
As of January 31st, the number of criminal cases (criminal appeal, revision, miscellaneous and reference cases) pending in the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court was 179, 046. From this, 401 were death reference cases. According to the recent Judicial Baseline Survey conducted by Judicial Strengthening (JUST), the number is also high in the lower court. The survey further revealed that 56 per cent of the disputes faced by the Court users in Dhaka, Kishoreganj and Rangamati is related to criminal offences.
