The United Nations (UN) will honour 126 ‘blue helmets’, including eight Bangladeshis who lost their lives the previous year while serving the cause of peace.
The commemorative activities will be held at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, 29
th May and at peacekeeping operations and offices around the world.
The 126 peacekeepers from police and armed forces from different countries and civilian recruits who lost their lives in 2014 while serving with the UN as a result of hostile acts, accidents an...
The World Bank is going to forge a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with Bangladesh for the period of FY16-FY20 as part of its new country engagement process to address Bangladesh’s development needs and support efforts to end its extreme poverty.
To replace the current Country Assistance Strategy expiring in June next, the World Bank Group as of July 2014 has adopted a new approach to country engagement, reports UNB.
Talking to UNB, an official at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) said the new approach consists of a two-step process.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $120 million loan in additional funding for a 6-year government-led program to improve the quality and reach of primary education in Bangladesh.
The loan will be complemented by cofinancing from the European Union, the Global Partnership for Education, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the World Bank. The Government of Bangladesh will provide the remaining $1.7 billion for the country’s $9.8 billion Third Primary Education Development Program, launched in 2011.
ADB’s original financing was a $320 million loan, and it agreed in 2011 to make more funds available if implementation was successful. This was confirmed by a joint midterm review by the Government of Bangladesh and its development partners completed in September 2014, w...
Bangladesh has made strong strides in accelerating growth over the last decades. However, the country needs to grow around 8% yearly to reach middle income status. Innovation and use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) can help end poverty and boost shared prosperity. The World Bank, in partnership with Microsoft, organized a two-day ‘Innovation for Impact” workshop to support local
Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in integrating ICT into their work, which in turn would help these NGOs create jobs, especially for wo...
Almost 5 million rural poor will be provided with livelihoods and business supports under a US$200 million financing agreement.
The government on Tuesday signed the agreement with the International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan window of the World Bank, for the Nuton Jibon Livelihood Improvement Project.
The project is designed to mobilise the poor and extreme poor people, who often remain left out from micro credit schemes, by building and strengthening community institutions including community societies, according to a World Bank new...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh during his conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday.
"The Secretary-General, I think, expressed his opinion in the way we've been expressing it here, which is to call to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh," said the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General at a daily press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York yesterday.
He made the remarks when a questioner wan...
The commemorative activities will be held at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, 29th May and at peacekeeping operations and offices around the world.
The 126 peacekeepers from police and armed forces from different countries and civilian recruits who lost their lives in 2014 while serving with the UN as a result of hostile acts, accidents an...
