Informes

1. GLOBAL OVERVIEW The Secretary General released the UN Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 on 25 June describing the UN strategy as based on three pillars – (a) delivery of a large-scale, coordinated and comprehensive health response, (b)…

1. GLOBAL OVERVIEW Huge gains made towards ending child labor over the last 20 years risk being reversed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on 12 June, in an appeal for governments to continue investing in…

BACKGROUND Bangladesh is facing an unprecedented crisis as COVID-19 infections and deaths continue to rise exponentially. The pandemic has crippled the economy after the lockdown and has thrown millions of its population into poverty and food insecurity,…

IOM to produce Hand Sanitizer with District Administration and Local Partners in Cox's Bazar Cox's Bazar - In the days following the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Bangladesh in early March, hand sanitizer and other essential hygiene…

Concern is conducting research in our programme countries to ascertain the impacts the Covid-19 pandemic is having on the world's poorest people. This page will be updated regularly with a series of research reports from Bangladesh,…

Make empathy go viral BRAC has provided 350,000 families with cash support, including households living in ultra-poverty, those living in remote haor areas (wetlands) and char (riverine islands) areas, host communities in Cox’s Bazar district, and indigenous…

Bangladesh: Sustainable Reintegration and Improved Migration Governance (Prottasha) Project Overview Duration: 4 years (April 2017—April 2021) Funded by: The European Union Lead Ministries: The Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment (MoEWOE) and The Ministry of Foreign ffairs (MoFA) Implementing…

“When the first storm hit, I knew that this time around it would be a bigger challenge for the women in Satkhira. Between a pandemic and a disaster, we didn’t know what to worry about more.…

One of the most densely populated countries in the world, Bangladesh exemplifies the triple blow that many emerging market countries have suffered from COVID-19: domestic slowdown caused by the disease and the efforts to contain its…

Bangladesh: Sustainable Reintegration and Improved Migration Governance (Prottasha) Project Overview Duration: 4 years (April 2017—April 2021) Funded by: The European Union Lead Ministries: The Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment (MoEWOE) and The Ministry of Foreign ffairs (MoFA) Implementing…