Geopolitics of the Pandemic: The Bangladesh Scene
Recently, Head of FES Asia Department Marc Saxer along with Professor Ali Riaz joined together on the television talk show Tritiyo Matra for a…
The Corona epidemic around the world is forcing us to make the use of technology one step further.
Shefaly Akter*, a sewing operator working for Natural Denims Ltd, a Readymade Garment (RMG) factory in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, thought her life…
Although Bangladeshi universities have been an important part of Bangladesh over the last 50 years, contributing to independence, the democratic…
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have great potential for success in Bangladesh. So far however, they have lacked the support and possibilities to…
Two years after the first Academy of Work in Bangladesh, trainers have restyled the programme to better respond to the challenges of organized labour…
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bangladesh and Centre for Development and Employment Research are proud to present our new study "Employment, Labour Force…
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bangladesh and Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) are proud of presenting a newly published study titled "Graduating LDCs in…
A participatory higher education system and a prosperous and socially just labour market are at the core of the ongoing work by the Dhaka-based team…
How can women’s and workers’ movements be brought together? Members of the network “Political Feminism in Asia” are to meet in Bangladesh to share…
On 30th of March 2019, the second assembly on the Futures of Higher Education ended with a big hope that youths would be more engaged in the…
This quote is by Shakil Ahmed, a "Young Global Changer" attending the Global Solution Summit in Berlin from 16-19 March, an event which is supported…
Academy of Work (AoW) is a 3-month certified training programme for trade unionists in Bangladesh.
In 2017, Bangladesh saw the opening of the first Academy of Work (AoW), a three-month long residential training programme for mid-level trade…
Identifying the challenges towards achieving tertiary education reforms and devising strategies to overcome those challenges has been a major…
An initiative of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Bangladesh in collaboration with Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) and BRAC Institute…
The Academy of Work (AoW) was launched on April 20, 2017 ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy, in an attempt to remind us of the…
How can Bangladesh avoid the middle-income trap and how can the country take advantage of its strengths to accelerate the pace of development to…
At a dialogue organised by Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in partnership with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Bangladesh, CPD Chairman Professor…
The Centre for Policy Dialogue and and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), organized a public dialogue on the impact of the latest WTO negotiation.
The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in April 2013 made global news.
The Regional Gender Project of FES in collaboration with Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies, Bangladesh, FES India and Bangladesh office organised…
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