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• Aquaculture for nutrition: Innovations from North Bengal

  19/11/2020

  Aquaculture is mostly unheard of in North Bengal, where harsh droughts and unreliable rainfall add to high poverty rates. That is why when Asma Begum decided to invest the last of her late husband’s savings to transform her pond for fish farming, her neighbours were in awe. Asma was struggling to make ends meet. Her husband had passed away from t… Read more

• Stepping up hand hygiene: How to make hand hygiene more accessible and inclusive

  19/10/2020

  Evidence shows that regular and thorough handwashing can lead to better health outcomes for all, and organisations have been working for years to promote this key behaviour globally. Despite that, the habit of handwashing with soap still remains unpracticed across many contexts. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, global health experts stressed t… Read more

• Building resilience amidst growing food insecurity crisis

  18/10/2020

  The public health impact of COVID-19 has been devastating, taking the lives of over one million people globally. As time passes, the global community is becoming increasingly concerned about the next crisis: the economic disaster of COVID-19. Lockdowns in low to lower-middle income countries are causing massive shocks to already fragile economies. Read more

• Study explores COVID-19 impact on the lives of garment workers

  18/10/2020

  “The global supply chain is detrimental to workers’ rights”, remarked Dr Sanchita Banerjee Saxena while presenting findings of a new study on Bangladeshi garment workers in a webinar “Covid-19 experience: Workers’ perspective” on 30 September 2020. The webinar was organised by Mapped in Bangladesh (MiB) project of Centre for Ent… Read more

• Snapshot: 30 ways BRAC supports girl children

  13/10/2020

  Girl children often discontinue education when they are married early, because of peer pressure from their new in-laws and lack of time, as a result of being occupied with domestic duties such as household chores and raising children. 1.7 million girl students and women received services through the BRAC Education Programme in 2019, including 377,2… Read more