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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
Government Watch
department
BIDA must transition to proactive investment facilitation by resolving infrastructure bottlenecks in energy and ports to maintain competitiveness for LDC graduation.
BIDA met with China’s Exim Bank to discuss increasing Chinese investment and organizing a Bangladesh Day in China.
BIDA co-organized the inaugural Bangladesh Trade and Investment Conference 2026 in Dhaka.
BIDA unveiled a plan to open 44 idle state-owned industrial sites to private investment via PPPs or leases.
BIDA Executive Chairman emphasized a strategic shift toward prioritizing domestic investment amid global market volatility.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman led a BIDA-organized Invest Bangladesh seminar in Beijing to secure investment agreements.
bida.gov.bd redirects to investbangladesh.gov.bd (301); all canonical URLs use investbangladesh.gov.bd. BIDA was established 1 September 2016 by merging the Board of Investment (BOI, est. 1989) and the Privatization Commission (est. 1993/2000). Its 17-member governing board is chaired by the Prime Minister, with the Finance Minister as vice-chairman. Executive Chairman Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun is the operational head; exact appointment date not confirmed from accessible primary sources (head_since = null). Staff count and annual budget are not publicly disaggregated on BIDA's website or any accessible source; set to null. The 'single-clearance reform' referenced for May 7, 2026 corresponds most closely to the OSS digitization/BanglaBiz 2.0 program and the royalty-payment service overhaul announced May 6, 2026 (per BIDA's own press release list at investbangladesh.gov.bd/press-release). No separately dated May 7 press release was retrievable from BIDA or Bangladeshi English-language outlets at the time of this record's construction. entity_type set to 'department' per task specification; BIDA is technically a statutory authority (autonomous body) under the PMO.