Development

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with world leaders on Tuesday, two years to the day since 195 nations adopted the climate-rescue Paris Agreement this time to talk about money. Without trillions of dollars of investment...

Children in conflict with the law, a police investigator and residents of a small Ukrainian village: sounds like the cast of a popular thriller. They were, in fact, all prize winners at the UN Migration Agency’s...

The Paris climate summit next week offers a chance for concrete advances in the fight against global warming, even without the support of President Donald Trump, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said. “What makes this...

Countries in the Pacific should step up their efforts to adapt to more extreme weather conditions and mitigate disaster risks to improve the region’s economic growth and development prospects, according to the latest issue of the...

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairperson of BRAC, one of the world’s leading non-governmental organisations, has received the prestigious Laudato Si award during a ceremony at the Vatican City. The award recognises BRAC for its...

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved debt financing and partial risk guarantees totaling $583 million to develop the Reliance Bangladesh Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and Power Project. The project, which includes a...

These inspiring women are not only driving their own lives but also enlightening others. Child marriage is a critical issue, and it exists every corner of the world – such as in a small village of...

From 2015 to 2017, the project supported the creation of child-friendly reading corners in 20 community and public libraries across eleven districts in Bangladesh. Officials from the Department of Public Libraries, the United States Agency for...

The participants were divided into three groups and had exercised on how RTI support effective service delivery, How RTI act contribute towards reduction of corruption and Challenges of RTI implementation and Way Forward. Findings of group...

BRAC in Sierra Leone was awarded the ‘Best NGO for Women’s Empowerment’ for 2017 by the Council of Chief Executives, a leading association of business leaders in Sierra Leone that is committed to sustainable economic growth...