Development

News Hour: BRAC distributed housing materials to the house owners at Saat Tola slum in Mohakhali. 200 bundle of corrugated sheets were distributed among 35 house owners. Wooden posts and bamboo were distributed earlier. These owners...

News Hour: IOM, with financial support from the Stop TB Partnership, yesterday (19/01) launched the world’s first dedicated TB and Migration Portal: The Knowledge Platform on Tuberculosis and Migration (tbandmigration.iom.int). The portal, created by IOM’s Migration...

News Hour: Preparatory work has begun for a proposed project to improve food security in Tajikistan by boosting dairy production while making the industry more resilient to climate change. A $500,000 technical assistance grant by the...

News Hour: IOM Chile last week (20/1) participated in a seminar “New Migration Policy in Chile,” organized by the Chilean Parliament’s Commission for Social Development, Overcoming Poverty and Planning. The meeting discussed the new institutional framework...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a €700,000 contribution from the Government of Spain to support the health and nutritional status of pregnant and breastfeeding women in warn-torn Syria WFP will...

News Hour: IOM announced today that over 1,000 refugees have been resettled through Slovakia’s emergency transit facility to the USA, Canada and Norway since 2009. On Tuesday (17/01), 23 refugees departed from Slovakia and arrived safely...

News Hour: IOM has distributed a total of 2,625 winter kits to the most vulnerable internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Taizz governorate, Yemen. The kits will help alleviate the suffering of up to 16,000 IDPs during...

News Hour: Efforts to combat human trafficking in Rwanda received a significant boost on Wednesday (18/01) following the signing of a USD 1.36 million project agreement between IOM and the United States Agency for International Development...

News Hour: BRAC was ranked the number one NGO in the world for the second consecutive year today by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent media organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the...

News Hour: On 12 January, during the one-day visit, IOM officials met with the leadership of the Libyan Coast Guard to discuss the outcomes of a needs assessment conducted last year. This assessment aimed to identify...