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The Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP) is a non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of basic as well as action research on socioeconomic development and environment. It was established in 1980 and is registered with the Government of Bangladesh under the Societies Act 1860. The year 2005 is thus the BUP's Silver Jubilee year. In the field of independent development research and dialogue activities, the BUP has played the pioneering role in this country. When it was established in 1980, it was virtually the first job kind in the country and represented a new vision. It has conducted many seminal research works on key national development issues and played a key role in popularizing roundtable discussions and dialogues on important issues of policy relevance. It also pioneered public opinion research in Bangladesh, initiating the activity in 1994. Nationally and internationally, the organization is usually known as BUP, which is the abbreviation of its full name. It is now well-established as a leading think-tank of Bangladesh. The BUP's research areas include a wide range of issues relating to sustainable development, covering social, economic, environmental and cultural aspects of development efforts. It has also earned wide recognition for its planning forum which organizes policy debates on not only national issues but also regional and international issues. The BUP is governed by its own constitution and managed by an Executive Board with the Chairman of the Board as its Chief Executive. Dr. Mohammed Farashuddin, Former Governor of Bangladesh Bank is the current Chairman of BUP. Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, an economist and development thinker and activist of international repute, is the Founder Chairman of BUP. |
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Imagine a new south asia (INSA) |
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Imagine SouthAsia!! is conceived as a broad based citizens' campaign to advance a shared sense of South Asian vision and mission to promote more policy convergence on key issues, more regional cooperation, joint initiative at the government as well as civil society level. It seeks to promote the vision of a peaceful, prosperous, just and democratic South Asia. This initiative is planned as a broad based process that would work with existing networks, alliances and South-Asia wide campaigns. It is neither a new network nor alliance but broad campaign platform to promote a free and fair South Asia. |
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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh |
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As a member of Peoples’ Forum on MDGs (PFM) and South Asian Group of Global Call for Action Against Poverty (GCAP), and also on its own, BUP has been participating in campaigns at both national and sub-national levels. In its efforts to help strengthen the civil society movement in Bangladesh and to play an useful role in influencing the government and the political parties by providing reality checks and suggesting ways forward for achieving the specific and time-bound targets of MDG goals particularly highlighting on eradication of extreme hunger and halving the proportion of people whose income is less than one PPP dollar a day.
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Monga Mukta Prochar Obhijan |
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The word, “Monga” has been derived from Hindi language “Mehenga” meaning “expensive” which indicates high food price, poverty and hunger. In Bengali, monga is an indicator of seasonal and chronic food shortage which prevails in some North-Western districts. Undoubtedly women face the worst consequences amongst the monga affected poor, particularly in Gaibanda, Joypurhat, Kurigram, Lalmanirhat, Jamalpur and Sherpur districts. Recent studies reveal that monga is not only a consequence of natural disasters but also due to human interventions or ignorance causing extreme poverty. |
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