Objectives: Increase awareness and youth participation in the electoral process, ensuring their voices and concerns are recognised and addressed by authorities. Project Summary JAAGO Foundation is currently engaged in a project focused on raising awareness and improving knowledge dissemination regarding electoral participation among youths. This initiative directly benefits approximately 2500 youths across all 64 … Read more
Objectives: By April 2025, Form the Bangladesh Youth Action Team (BYAT) of 160 members, comprising 50% females and 3%-5% individuals with disabilities, who will be actively engaged, functioning as GenU peer leaders at both divisional and national levels. Contextualise, promote, monitor and test Passport to Earning (P2E), an innovative 21st-century skills development for scalability in … Read more
Objective Project Summary The upcoming national election in Bangladesh is an important event that shapes the country’s future. However, many young people are not fully aware of their voting rights or the significance of their involvement in the electoral process. To address this issue, Volunteer for Bangladesh embarks on a campaign to capacitate 448 youth … Read more
Rationale Young people (18-35 years) constitute one-third of Bangladesh population (BBS, 2015). This youth bulge offers a great potential of demographic dividend for the country which is going to end in 2040. Harvesting the benefits of demographic dividend depends on how young people are integrated into the development process. According to UNDP, achieving the 2030 … Read more
Rationale Although Bangladesh has had tremendous economic growth over the past few decades but still has not been able to hold up the employment elasticity of the country. Barriers to employment include reasons such as; shortage of job opportunities, poor quality of training and certificate accreditation, favoritism, social stigma, and most importantly, lack of proper … Read more
Rationale COVID-19 induced shutdown has resulted in education disruption and job loss for the young population. The pandemic has decimated the work landscape and has devastated the education system. Psychological stress among young people has heightened due to distancing from sports, socialization, and entertainment. During this pandemic, youth have to adjust to new sets of … Read more
Rationale In Bangladesh, half of the population is women with low socio-economic conditions. With multi-dimensional problems in society and gender disparity, it is difficult for women to stay parallel and enjoy the right of equal participation. Some of the critical issues for women that need to be addressed to reduce gender disparity are lack of … Read more
Rationale Our country’s political and voting situation always causes fear which creates a lack of interest among the general youth towards participating in the election. The purpose of this program was to prepare youth by constructing their mindfulness on how youth can engage themselves in shaping a positive election environment and youth’s right as voters. … Read more
Rationale Election violence has always been a well-known phenomenon to people in our country. Especially those, who are in the process,. During the elections periods political parties seek to validate their activities, claiming those as protests for the fraudulent result of the election. It is seen that these violent activities are mostly carried out by … Read more
Rationale Young people (18-35 years) constitute one-third of Bangladesh’s population (BBS, 2015). This youth bulge offers a great potential of demographic dividend for the country, which will end in 2040. Harvesting the benefits of demographic dividends depends on how young the people will be integrated into the development process. This workshop and online dialogue were … Read more
