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• Client Interaction Points: How BRAC is facilitating RMG workers to access financial services in Bangladesh

  23/09/2021

  Bangladesh had an export value of USD 34 billion in 2019, as the world’s second-largest exporter of apparel products (Export Promotion Bureau, 2020). The growth in the RMG sector has significantly contributed to women’s empowerment and employment in the country. According to The Global Economy, the latest female labour force participation rate… Read more

• Schools in Bangladesh were closed for longer than in any other country. Here’s how BRAC is supporting their reopening

  19/09/2021

  Initial predictions of learning loss from COVID-19 paint a dire picture. Studies conducted in Karnataka, India, show close to a year of learning loss as a result of the pandemic. Research conducted four years after the 2005 Pakistan earthquake found students affected by three months of school closures were catching up on the equivalent of 1.5 years… Read more

• Climate solutions from Bangladesh: Climate-resilient housing

  14/09/2021

  Floods and cyclones are the most common natural disasters in Bangladesh, a low-lying country situated in a delta. Naturally, the country has had to adapt. Existing challenges are worsening however, with the rising impacts of climate change. Cyclones have intensified – severe cyclonic storms are affecting Bangladesh every year. Last year, Bang… Read more

• Outside the digital world: How can remote learning be redesigned outside the internet?

  13/09/2021

  This year’s International Literacy Day was celebrated in the midst of an ongoing global pandemic for the second year running. The Day is a reminder of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights. Given the disruption and havoc that COVID-19 has caused to education, the significance of International Literacy Day cannot be ov… Read more

• No alternative to community resilience against COVID-19: In conversation with Suzanne Mueller, Head of Cooperation/Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh

  13/09/2021

  The pandemic is far from over in Bangladesh – with more than 3,000 new cases being reported daily. The Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh has worked to support Bangladesh through the pandemic for the past year and a half, including through BRAC’s Community Fort for Resisting COVID-19 (‘CFRC’ hereafter). The CFRC project launched on 1… Read more