TraumaLink Responder Training held in EMK Centre
Number of dedicated youth enthusiasts on Thursday (July 24, 2014) participated ‘SAYS-TraumaLink Community First Responder Training Program’, jointly organized by region’s strong youth network, South Asian Youth Society (SAYS) and Traumalink Harvard Medical School at Edward M Kennedy (EMK) Centre, Dhaka as part of capacity building initiatives bringing about community engagement with a view to dealing large number of post-accidental first aids activities. TraumaLink President Doctor Jon Moussally provided interactive lectures, and ran practical training sessions along with his associates and practitioners.
Yunus meets Suu Kyi in Yangon
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus met Myanmar democratic icon and Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her home in Yangon.
During the first-ever meeting between the two Nobel laureates, Yunus briefed Suu Kyi about social business programmes in Bangladesh, including micro-credit, healthcare, education and vocational training, renewable energy social businesses as well as equity investment for the development of enterprises by the unemployed young people of Grameen Bank families, said a Yunus Centre Press release on Monday.
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Library movement helps reading habits in villages
A non-profit platform in Bangladesh is aiding in the setup and sustenance of libraries in remote districts and villages of the country. The efforts of the Village Library Movement, initiated in 2006, have already benefited at least 3,000 readers through nearly 30 libraries.
The platform is content that most of these libraries are playing a role towards community development in the country, besides providing rural youth and adults with an opportunity to read more.
Humayun Kabir, 24, the founder of Shanok Boyra Anusandhan Library in Bhui...
Humayun Kabir, 24, the founder of Shanok Boyra Anusandhan Library in Bhui...
Human right to WASH ‘glaring omission’ in OWG ‘zero draft’
The U.N. Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals is holding this week its 12th and penultimate meeting in New York. Thirty representatives from U.N. member states are discussing amendments to the so-called “zero draft” document, which they will submit to the 68th U.N. General Assembly in September as a formal SDG proposal document.
But as many water and sanitation NGOs — including the 270-member End Water Poverty campaign coalition and a group of some 300 NGOs that have submitted a co-signed letter — believe, and as U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation Catarina de Albuquerque has noted, there remains a glaring omission in the document: the human right to water and sanitation.
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Equitable allocation for water, sanitation sector stressed
An analysis of government budget sees a declining trend of allocation in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for last five years. The allocation in FY 2010-11 was 2.39 percent of the total budget that disappointingly came down to only 1.64 percent in FY 2013-14. In FY 2014-15 under the local government division, out of 199 projects, only 45 (22%) projects found to be proposed for water sanitation and hygiene sector.
Although the ‘urban vs rural’ disparity in allocation has slightly been minimised in FY 2012-13 in comparison to prev...
Although the ‘urban vs rural’ disparity in allocation has slightly been minimised in FY 2012-13 in comparison to prev...
New budget a luxury of target: CPD
Centre for Policy Dialogue, a social think-tank, on Friday termed the proposed budget for next fiscal 2014-15 a ‘luxury of target’, saying it will be impossible to archive 7.3 percent GDP growth if political stability is not ensured and private investment is not increased to 25 percent of the GDP.
It mentioned that at present, private investment is 4-5 percent of the GDP. If it is increased to 25 percent, about $9.5 billion will need to be put in place.
“The luxury is sometimes OK, but it is not matchable with our capacity in the current perspective,” sa...
It mentioned that at present, private investment is 4-5 percent of the GDP. If it is increased to 25 percent, about $9.5 billion will need to be put in place.
“The luxury is sometimes OK, but it is not matchable with our capacity in the current perspective,” sa...
