BDCSO Process, a forum of around 700 local CSOs/NGOs, on Monday urged international agencies to ensure transparency in their all humanitarian and development activities, shunning the practice of ‘colonial dominance’ in partnership with NGOs.

Although Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in women's political empowerment, female members of coastal fishing households are still lagging far behind in terms of empowerment.

Local and international NGOs including UN agencies on Thursday urged the authorities concerned to take an inclusive and integrated plan to protect the Rohingya people and the host community from coronavirus infection in Cox’s Bazar.

A recent survey finds that about 63% of coastal poor households have borrowed loan from local money lenders at high-interest rates  due to absent of institutional credit facilities.

Eighteen humanitarian agencies called on governments in the region to save lives of stranded asylum seekers in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.

In a recent survey of people living in the country’s coastal belt, almost half the respondents (49%) said they have no clear idea about the primary protective measures against Covid-19.

Dhaka, Sep 30 (UNB)- COAST Trust was awarded as the best innovative Non- Government Organisation (NGO) 2018 in the 14th Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards at the Hotel Intercontinental in the capital on Monday.