Parks and playgrounds play a very important role in cities. But Dhaka city lacks this important component in most communities. And the areas having parks and playgrounds are not fully utilized. A playground becomes accessible for all, when it reflects requirements of everyone. Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), HealthBridge-Canada, Work for a Better Bangladesh Trust, Block by Block and UN-Habitat have jointly taken initiative to make six parks and playgrounds of Mirpur area (ward no 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9) accessible for all. Community people have created designs for each site by using Minecraft game. Participatory approach is very important while improving parks and playgrounds to ensure proper development, usage and maintenance of those. On 6th July 2019 speakers of the closing ceremony of interactive workshop on Minecraft for Participatory Public Space Design expressed such.

 

 

 

A view exchange meeting held on “Raising Tax on Tobacco Products and Necessary Steps” on 1 April 2019 at Dhaka University jointly organized by Bureau of Economic Research (BER), University of Dhaka and Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust in collaboration with The Union.