IED’s support to flood affected people of Feni

The Institute for Environment and Development (IED) stood beside flood affected people of Bairagpur village of Fulgazi upazilla, Feni. It provided food support to 80 families. The food support package contained- Rice- 5 Kg, Lentil – 1 Kg, Potato – 1 Kg, Onion – 1 Kg, Salt – 1 Kg, Oil – 1 Kg, Soap -1 pcs, Sanitary napkin – 1 packet, and Oral saline – 5 pcs.  The support was given on September 5, 2024 at Fulgazi upazilla of View More

Tapas Biswas fight back in his life struggle

Today, Tapas Biswas is a well-known mechanic of Paba Upazilla in Rajshahi district who is working as sanitary and plumbing worker. Financial hardship was a constant companion in his poverty-stricken family. His only wealth in the family is 1.65 decimal household land. His old parents used to work as day labor to manage the family. Elder brother, who is van (rickshaw) driver, maintains separate family and other elder two sisters live in different village after married off. He did not get through the View More

An exceptional-initiatives on reproductive healthcare

Saraswati Rani Pahari has undertaken an exceptional initiative on reproductive healthcare who is a student of class X and come from a very poor family.  Her father works in a brickfield as labor and lives in Hilalipara village, Gobindganj of Gaibandha district. Practically it is observed that teenagers like this marginalized girl in that area are afraid of the physical and mental changes of puberty. At that time, they faced many problems but cannot share with anyone. The girls are mentally View More

Taslima – a pro-active women leader

Taslima Begum is a dynamic women leader who is living in Jashore town and was born in very poor family. She was married at the age of 11 years. From her childhood, she had in her mind to bringing changes in the life of distress people especially the women. Her education was class VIII. She came to know about the works of IED and the women groups’ activities. One day she joined in event of the IED organized group in her View More

19th annual general meeting of IED held

19th annual general meeting was held on May 4, 2024 at HKS Areefin Conference Room, IED chaired by Dr. Rashid-E-Mahbub, chairman of IED. All the members were remained present. After welcoming all the AGM members, an overview and update position of the organization was highlighted. Then the secretary Mr. Numan Ahmed Khan, Executive Director of IED presented the report of the organization. After discussion of the report, the Treasurer of IED, Dr. Laila Arjumand Banu presented the treasurer's report. After View More

Project completion meeting held

A closing meeting of project titled `Sensitizing people on harmful effects of digital disinformation to promote peace and harmony’ was held on March 31, 2024 at IED office. In the meeting overall project performance was presented and analyzed. It was really a good project to sensitize people to combat digital disinformation to promote peace and harmony. View More

Assignment Officer of NGOAB visited IED

Mr. Bipul Chandra Das, Senior Assistant Secretary and Assignment Officer, NGOAB visited IED on March 21, 2024. An interaction meeting was held with all the staffs of IED. A presentation on IED’s programs and projects was made. An analytical discussion was done for understanding IED’s performance. He highly appreciated the interventions of IED. He shared some innovative ideas that IED could mull over. He has given emphasis to existing IED’s efforts on hands on technical skills trainings at the local market View More

IP hands on skill training receivers hosted solidarity fair and discussion meeting

Institute for Environment and Development (IED) has been introducing hands on skill training to dropout, illiterate and poor IP youth since 2015. Initially it started work with IP youth in three districts namely Dinajpur, Sherpur and Rajshahi. At present, this hands on skill training initiatives is going on in Gaibandha, Rajshahi and Sherpur districts. Each year 5 IP youth receive hands on skill training in the areas of automobile, refrigerator, electrics & electronics, motorcycle, mobile repairing, saloon, beauty parlor, sanitary View More

Courtyard workshop held in Sherpur to protect wild animal, biodiversity and environment

In part of raising awareness to conserve nature, protect environment and promote biodiversity, the Institute for Environment and Development (IED) organized daylong open courtyard workshop on combat disinformation to protect and preserve wild animal, biodiversity and environment in Sherpur. The event was held on March 5, 2024 at Rangtia, Sherpur with support of The Asia Foundation. Mustafa, Member, Elephant Response Team; Hormuz Ali, Staff Member, Forest Department and Babul Ghosh, General Secretary, Bird Conservation Society spoke in the event. With chair View More

16 NGOs Join Forces in a 10-Point Declaration to Combat Rumors/Disinformation

16 non-governmental development organizations, institutions and civic platforms operating in Bangladesh have issued a 10-point joint declaration to prevent rumors and misinformation and to protect disadvantaged, minority, gender diverse communities in the election period.   This announcement was made in a press release on Sunday after the joint network meeting of the institutions. Earlier, the Institute for Environment and Development (IED) held a two-day long network meeting with the support of The Asia Foundation during December 20-21, 2023 at YWCA auditorium in View More