Empowering community volunteers for urban resilience
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Considering the effectiveness of community engagement in the successful implementation of sustainable resilience initiatives, UNDP’s National Resilience Programme is mobilising urban community volunteers from local educational institutions under selected city corporations and municipal areas.
Presently, 240 volunteers are engaged with Rangamati Pourashava where they organise, mobilise and receive trainings on urban resilience issues from experts from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). This is part of an MoU signed with Rangpur Corporation, Rangamati Pourshava, Shunamganj Pourashava and Tangail Pourashava in April 2019 for mutual cooperation to enhance urban resilience to reduce disaster risks and vulnerability.
Sajidul Haque,
bdnews24.com
Published: 28 Feb 2021 07:36 PM BdST
Updated: 28 Feb 2021 07:36 PM BdST
The Department of Public Works initiated a project in September 2018 to construct residential apartments in place of 36 abandoned houses in Chattogram. );
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The project, worth an estimated Tk 11.31 billion, was slated to be completed in June 2021. But only one percent of the infrastructural work has been completed until now, according to the Ministry of Housing and Public Works.
Under the project, eight packages have floated tender for the construction of 35 houses while 6 packages signed contracts for 28 buildings. Two others packages have a case filed against them while the rest have only made progress by way of paper work.
Graduates struggling to secure employment
Experts say at DCCI webinar
Graduates throw their caps in the air in jubilation, in front of the Raju Memorial Sculpture on campus. Photo: Collected Star Business Report Star Business Report
Graduates are struggling in the job market as the conventional education system does not equip students with the skills industries demand, according to Rizwan Rahman, president of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI).
Bangladesh has a labour force of about 6.35 crore which is growing at 2.2 per cent, meaning that there are around 20 lakh new entrants every year.
However, 38.6 per cent of the graduates face unemployment, and it indicates a mismatch of skills, said Rahman at a webinar styled, Industry-Academia Linkage: The New Frontier .
Huawei, BUET sign deal to open first ICT Academy in Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent
18th February, 2021 10:54:37
Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Vice-President Linzhijun and BUET Vice-Chancellor Dr Satya Prasad Majumder exchange documents after signing an MoU at BUET Council Building in the capital on Thursday.
Huawei has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) to set up the first ICT Academy on the BUET campus.
The special ICT Academy will be equipped with connectivity through which BUET students will have the opportunity to communicate with more than 1,200 instructors from around the world.
There will be 83 certification programmes on 19 different subjects, said a press release.
BUET, Huawei join hands to grow ICT talent ecosystem
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Technology (BUET) and Huawei, a leading global provider of information and
communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, are going
to set up first ever ICT academy in the country.
With the aim to provide young ICT students in Bangladesh an opportunity to
carve a niche for them in the global professional market, the academy would
be established at BUET, a press release said here today.
A memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the two
parties on Thursday. Vice President of Enterprise Business Group in Huawei
Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited Lin zhi jun and Vice-Chancellor of