Publication

The workshop on Participation Revolution I was keen to participate in the workshop, ‘Participation Revolution’ organised by CHS Alliance and ICVA, from 25 to 27th June 2024, in Bangkok, as I thought I would learn and share different definitions, initiatives and experiences. We found a lot of questions from our...

Draft Position Paper, Equity BD, 13 June 2024 National Budget -2024-25 Independent Climate Finance is Inevitable for Sustainable Development Proposed National Budget 2024-25 Amid a multi-faceted economic crisis including inflation, reserves, revenue rates, dollar crisis and financial sector reforms, the National Parliament of Bangladesh proposed a budget of Tk 797,000 crore...

EquityBD Position Paper, June 2024 No Loan in Humanitarian Action. No More Debt for Bangladesh Aid Transparency | Reduced Management Cost | Dignified Policy in Rohingya Response Debt to deal with the refugee crisis? On August 25, 2017, nearly one million Rohingya people crossed the Naf river and came to the border of...

EquityBD Position Paper, June 2024 No Loan in Humanitarian Action. No More Debt for Bangladesh Aid Transparency | Reduced Management Cost | Dignified Policy in Rohingya Response Debt to deal with the refugee crisis? On August 25, 2017, nearly one million Rohingya people crossed the Naf river and came to the border of...

For the kind attention of: Mr. Ramy Youseff, Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee to Draft Terms of Reference for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation Cc: Permanent Representatives and Observers to the UN in New York, 15 March 2024 Subject: Joint civil society and trade unions submission in...

Draft Position Paper on WTO Seminar in Bangladesh Opinion expressed in the seminar is reflected here We want Bangladesh to act for Least Developed Countries WTO’s Mandate is to Improve People’s Lives Not to Facilitate the Unfair Corporate Trade Introduction WTO is the official international organisation that sets rules for global trade and resolves disputes if...

COAST and EquityBD jointly drafted a paper for CoP 28 in Dubai, urging action on behalf of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Most Vulnerable Countries (MVCs). The paper outlines critical needs, criticizes past negotiation failures since the Paris Agreement, emphasizes solidarity with CSOs, and presents key demands for fulfilling...

This document states the background, process, principal premise and major expectations of Bangladeshi NGOs from INGOs (International NGO), Donors and UN agencies in view of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) and the Grand Bargain (GB)policy outcomes and in view of the discussions on ‘development effectiveness’ (DE). These three global...

In September 2015, heads of states and governments met at the UN (United Nation) headquarter in New York and agreed on a new generation of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets to succeed the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) and to guide global development over the next 15...

Illicit capital flow from Bangladesh has been one of the crucial issues both in the politics and socio economic sector of Bangladesh. Every year an enormous amount of money is being siphoned off to tax heaven countries illegally. As per latest report-2015 of Global Financial Integrity (GFI) an estimated...