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The Unnayan Onneshan is a progressive think-tank that undertakes research for advancing ideas and building constituencies for social transformation. The Institute advances critical scholarship, promotes inter-disciplinary dialogue and amplifies grassroots perspectives. The public-interest research institute works in collaboration with national partners, international organisations and leading universities.

The Unnayan Onneshan - the Innovators was registered in 2003 as a not-for-profit trust to contribute towards search for solutions to endemic poverty, injustice, gender inequality and environmental degradation at the local, national and global levels. The philosophy, ideas and actions of the organization focus on pluralistic, participatory and sustainable development and seek to challenge the narrow theoretical and policy approaches derived from unitary models of development...
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“Financing for Climate Change - Challenges and Way Forward”
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, 2008

   
 

Bangladesh Public Health Conference 2008
REPORT

   
  .:: Latest Media Releases ::.
 
  Media Feature on Budget Analysis 2007-2008
  Macro Economy Long Term Action Needed to Turn Economy on Track - ProthomAlo 9June2008.
  Current fiscal apprehended to end up with high inflation - ProthomAlo 3June2008.
  Pre- Budget analysis of Unnayan Onneshan suggests to reduce ADP: Inflation rate can reach 8.5% - AmarDesh 3June2008.
  Analysis by Unnayan Onneshan Budget needed to make inflation tolerable - Prothom Alo 2June2008.
   
  .:: Latest Publications ::.
   
  Pathshala
  Unnayan Onneshan
Vol-1, issue-1, May’2008

Pathshala is a regular publication of education section of Social Policy Unit, Unnayan Onneshan. Pathshala wants to enhance the existing analysis, discussion and critique on the discourse of neo-liberal education system, questions it and shows its limitation. This issue of Pathshala criticizes the neo-liberal project of reforming primary education of Bangladesh. It shows its limitations and its impact on our education system. It also suggests some policy reforms to achieve a more people oriented education system.
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  Deserting the Sundarbans
  Local People's Perspective on ADB-GEF-Netherlands Funded Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation Project

The Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation Project (SBCP) was the largest project of its king undertaken by the government of Bangladesh aiming to establish a proper management system for conserving the biological diversity and securing the environmental and biological integrity of the Sundarbans. The US$ 77.3 million project was intended to take place between 1999 and 2006, but the implementing agency and co-funder, the Asian Development Bank suspended the project in September 2003 and cancelled it in January 2005, citing problems with project design, the implementation of some activities, and financial management. This study illustrates that the Asian Development Bank and the Global Environment Fund – the two main funding agencies failed to put in practice their own policies.
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  Resuscitating the Sundarbans
  Customary Use of Biodiversity & Traditional Cultural Practices in Bangladesh

This is an output of collaborative action research actively participated by stakeholders, researchers and experts from home and abroad. It explores the nature of Sundarban Reserve Forest, customary use of its biological resources and related traditional cultural practices followed by the traditional resource users which are compatible to conservation and sustainable utilization. During British Regime in 1878 the Sundarban was declared as Reserve Forest and placed it under full state control ousting the forest peoples. Nearly one and a half century had passed since declaration of Reserve Forest. The approach of exclusive state protection did not able to achieve the desired outcome- either in respect of biodiversity conservation or in respect of people’s livelihood security.
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Primary Education in Bangladesh
  Streams, Disparities and Pathways for Unified System

This study provides an in-depth investigation into the overarching disparities existing in our primary education system through studying input-output linkages in different streams of primary education system and tries to develop clear pathway of linking different steams for a sustainable uniform quality education in Bangladesh. Its perspectives are built around questioning the intrinsic value of education and its outcome in different streams.

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Stakeholder Perceptions on the Aid Effectiveness of Multilateral Organisations
  IFI Watch Bangladesh, Vol.-5, No.- 1 (In Bengali)

This Issue of IFI Watch contains outcome of a study conducted in Bangladesh as well as other five aid recipient countries include Ghana, India, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia under a pilot project of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The study was based on a survey to identify country’s key stakeholders’ views about the performance of multilateral organisations and their preferences for which organisations disburse promised additional aid in future. The six multilateral organisations that have been taken into account are: the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) and the World Bank.
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Coal Policy and Concern over Future Energy Security of Bangladesh
  IFI Watch Bangladesh, Vol.-5, No.-2
(In Bengali & English)

The present caretaker government has been decided to review the draft coal policy again, prepared in December 2007. The government wants to determine mining method according to the geological condition of respective coalmine. Open pit mining will lead to excess production of coal beyond country’s annual demand that will create pressure on the policy makers to give permission of export of coal. In the draft policy it has stated that if there is access production of high grade coking coal it can be exported in the form of coke- a solid material derived from coking coal. But minimum royalty rate has not been fixed in the draft policy. This issue of IFI Watch analyses the coal policy and offers some suggestion from people’s point of view.
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The Role of IMF in Policy Making in Bangladesh

Unnayan Onneshan has organized a round table discussion on “The Role of IMF in Policy Making in Bangladesh” at CIRDAP auditorium on 20th October, 2007. Md. Iqbal Ahmed presented a paper on the issue. Ahmed showed the effect of IMF policies with empirical data and ended with questioning its role.
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NATIONAL BUDGET 2007-08
  A Rapid Assessment

The budget for the fiscal 2007-08 coincides with a heavy down pour in the day of announcement, with a simmering heat wave during its preparation. The budget, economic manifestation of political mandate, lands in by a non-political government, in the backdrop of a chaos created by feuding political parties. It times up with G8 leaders’ heads in the sand of poverty, hegemony and protest at seaside summit in Germany. The budget keeps up with the continuity of liberalisation, privatisation and deregulation of successive governments.
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