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Protecting Women’s Safety in Slums: An Intervention in Karachi
Written by Searchlight Process
This article was originally drafted by Intellecap for the newsletter “Searchlight South Asia” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment around the world cannot be successful unless physical spaces – public and private – […]
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Splitting Dhaka: Model or Mistake?
Written by Searchlight Process
This article was originally drafted by Intellecap for the newsletter “Searchlight South Asia” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Urbanization in Bangladesh has unique and challenging characteristics: extremely unbalanced growth with 60% of its people living in four cities, and risk […]
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Natural disasters and countermeasures in Bangladesh
Written by marie
In disaster-prone Bangladesh, a UNICEF-supported programme helps children stay in school. Read more
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Bangladesh – Arsenic Poisoning of a Population in Need of Pure Drinking Water
Written by Badrud Doza
Bangladesh is grappling with a massive crisis of arsenicosis or chronic arsenic poisoning. A World Bank report shows that arsenic was first detected in the groundwater of Bangladesh and West Bengal in India in the 1990s while a recent study in the British Medical Journal ‘The Lancet’ found that 35-77 million […]
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Enabling life choice via financial and business education: aidha
Written by Searchlight Process
This article was originally drafted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for Issue 14 of the newsletter “Asian Trends Monitoring Bulletin” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. “Without aidha, I would not have achieved the goals for my […]
