BRAC receives Healthcare Innovation Award
An innovative programme by development organisation BRAC transforming health for women and children in Dhaka’s slums has been awarded a prize in the first global GSK and Save the Children $1million Healthcare Innovation Award.
BRAC is one of five organisations, from a long list of nearly 100 applications from 29 countries from across the developing world, selected to share the award. It will receive $300,000 to pilot test its programme, called Manoshi, in the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone, where under-five and maternal mortality rates are amongst the highest in the world.
DFQF access might harm interest of LDCs
Duty free and quota free access (DFQF) and relaxation of Rules of Origin might be harmful for the LDCs as these will weaken their position to oppose TISA (Trade in Service Agreement) and TICFA (Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement), said the rights activists.
They urged the government to emphasise free movement of labour in the upcoming WTO ministerial meet to be held in Bali, Indonesia on December 3-6.
The call came from a rally held in front of the Jatiay Press Club in the city on Thursday.
Moderated by Mostafa K...
The call came from a rally held in front of the Jatiay Press Club in the city on Thursday.
Moderated by Mostafa K...
World Toilet Day: American Standard gives toilet systems to Bangladesh
American Standard has donated almost a half million life-improving SaTo sanitary toilet pans throughout Bangladesh. On the 12th annual World Toilet Day — and the first officially recognized by the United Nations — the company celebrates the toilet with a progress report on its Flush For Good campaign.
The donations are expected to improve the lives of 2.5 million residents of Bangladesh during 2013 and 2014. Installations underway will be complete by the end of 2014. American Standard is executing the program with partners BRAC, WaterAid and Save the Children.
Including a new initiative underway for Sub-Saharan Africa, American Standard expects to provide sanitation solutions for a total of 5.5 million people by 2017.
Yunus not enjoying respect he deserves
Grameen Bank founder Dr Muhammad Yunus has not been enjoying the respect he deserves in his own country, said German Ambassador to Dhaka Dr Albrecht Conze.
“It saddens me that the distinguished pioneer of microfinance and social business has not been enjoying the respect he deserves in his own country lately,” the German diplomat came up with the remark when he met Prof Yunus in Thursday morning to convey an invitation by German President Joachim Gauck to visit Berlin early next year.
During the meeting, the Germa...
During the meeting, the Germa...
Trade balance to decline in FY 2013-14
The country’s terms of trade have been deteriorating unabated, reflecting a major structural weakness of the economy, reveals the Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its latest monthly economic update released on Wednesday.
The terms of trade, the value of exports relative to that of imports, reached at 70.1 per cent in FY 2011-12 from 70.8 per cent in FY 2010-11 and the leading think-tank projects further weakening in the upcoming years to reach at 69.2 per cent, 68 per cent, 66.7 per cent and 65.5 per cent in FY 2012-13, FY 2013-14, FY 2014-15 and FY 2015-16 respectively, if radical actions are not taken.
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GO-NGO efforts for eliminating hazardous child labour stressed
Speakers at a workshop have stressed for joint efforts of the government and non-government organisations to eliminate hazardous child labour for ensuring universal rights for all children.
They also favoured providing necessary assistance to the working children in hotels, restaurants, welding workshops and other hazardous places to pave way for their normal growth and flourishing talents to uphold their human and social rights, reports BSS.
‘Come to Work’, an NGO, organised the daylong workshop with the assistances of ‘Oporajeyo Bangladesh’ and Eco Social Development Organisation (ESDO) at Young Star Club in Parbotipur upazila town of Dinajpur on Tuesday.
