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UNESCO Dhaka organised a five-day workshop on "Value-based Management of Cultural Heritage of Bangladesh" at BRAC INN from 24-28 May 2009. Richard Englehardt, an internationally acclaimed scholar on heritage management and former UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture in the Asia Pacific Region conducted the workshop that was attended by participants from the Jahangirnagar University and the Department of Archaeology. The workshop was the first in what UNESCO hopes to be a series of training activities aimed at building the capacity of the manager and other officials who are responsible for the protection and management of cultural heritage sites of the country.
The New Age, an English daily of Bangladesh, published an interview with Richard Englehardt on 5th June 2009.
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 A three day workshop on the “Theoretical and Practical aspects of Inventorying and Documentation of Museum Collection” was held from 16 – 18 March, 2009 at the Kabi Sufia Kamal Auditorium, Bangladesh National Museum. UNESCO Dhaka office was the organizer of the workshop. The general objective of the workshop was to examine both the theoretical and practical aspects of inventorying and documentation of museum collections to enhance the protection of cultural objects. At the three day workshop, nineteen representatives from eleven museums learned the basics of digital cataloguing.
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 Dinajpur Museum is one of the few museums which have been developed by community initiatives in Bangladesh. It possesses various categories of objects including some rare and interesting pieces of sculptures which testify to the Eastern Indian School of Art in Post-6th century ACE. The rich collection makes this museum a very important repository of tangible heritage of this region. Like many other museums, it did not have a systematically developed catalogue of the collected and displayed objects. The absence of a catalogue informed by the recent data structures about the objects makes the collection of this museum vulnerable to loss and theft.
Under these circumstances, with the funding of UNESCO, Dhaka Office as a part of their mandate to safeguard Cultural Heritage, a team of researchers with the coordination of Swadhin Sen, Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Jahangirnagar University have developed the digital catalogue of the museum objects for the first time in Bangladesh in 2007. The software of digital database, which is the first in its kind in Bangladesh, was designed by Ziaul Bashar and the team.
You can browse the objects in Dinajpur Museum at http://museum.unescodhaka.org.
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 Situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat, at the meeting-point of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, this ancient city, formerly known as Khalifatabad, was founded by the Turkish general Ulugh Khan Jahan in the 15th century. The city's infrastructure reveals considerable technical skill and an exceptional number of mosques and early Islamic monuments, many built of brick, can be seen there.
Source: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/321
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 The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is adjacent to the border of India's Sundarbans World Heritage site inscribed in 1987. The site is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests, and presents an excellent example of ongoing ecological processes. The area is known for its wide range of fauna, including 260 bird species, the Bengal tiger and other threatened species such as the estuarine crocodile and the Indian python.
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EFA Global Monitroing Report 2009 (Bangla Version)
BANGLADESH ECCE SIMULATION TOOL
EXPANDING ECCE IN BANGLADESH
