October 11-13, 2022
Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka
The Future of Development in a Post-Pandemic World
| 9:00 AM-5:00 PM (GMT +6) | Field visit (For limited participants only) |
| 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM (GMT +6) | Welcome Remarks |
| 10:10 AM – 10:55 AM (GMT +6) | Development in the next normal: The after COVID era |
| 11:00 AM – 11.15 AM (GMT +6) | Coffee break |
| 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM (GMT +6) | Financial Inclusion in a time of COVID: Lessons and Experiences |
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (GMT +6) | Leaving no one behind: Designing for inclusion |
Innovation in learning: Unlocking the remote learning puzzle (Workshop) | |
| 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (GMT +6) | Lunch and networking break |
| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (GMT +6) | Impact Talks |
| 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM (GMT +6) | Coffee break |
| 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM (GMT +6) | CEOs Speak: Fostering cross-sector collaboration for greater impact |
Jugaad Box Phase 01 (Workshop) | |
| 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM (GMT +6) | Lessons from the pandemic: Frugal models for inclusive healthcare systems
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A recent ILO report states, “Less than half of all eligible women participate in the labour force, compared to 75% of men.” . . . Women are also more likely to work in informal employment and in vulnerable, low-paid or undervalued jobs. Further, the Global Findex Database 2021 on Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, and Resilience in the Age of COVID-19 iterates 56% of all those without a bank account were women – meaning
Covid-19 has added fresh urgency to improving the already dismal scenario of our youth’s preparedness for the future world of work. . . . Even before Covid-19 hit, Bangladeshi youths were struggling to find productive employment. While a large share of the Bangladeshi labour force had been stuck in a low-skill, low-productivity cycle, technology had been profoundly changing the global job market and changing it fast. Technology is creating many
24 million people, or 14% of the population, have been newly pushed into poverty as a result of the pandemic in Bangladesh. Learn how BRAC has introduced new interventions to ensure that this group can restart their lives as the country emerges from lockdowns, and build resilience for future shocks. . . . Johura Begum and her husband used to work at a garments factory in Chattogram, southern Bangladesh.
