Driving Impact Through Youth-Led Solutions

Over the past 17 years, we have implemented diverse projects that translate youth potential into measurable social impact. Through initiatives in leadership, employability, entrepreneurship, and active citizenship, BYLC equips young people across Bangladesh with the skills, values, and opportunities needed to address community challenges and contribute to inclusive, sustainable development.

Building Bridges through Leadership Training (BBLT) and Building Bridges through Leadership Training Junior (BBLTJ) Phase 2

Summary: This project aims to unite 3,000 youth from diverse backgrounds, build their leadership skills, instill in them values of empathy, inclusiveness, and pluralism, and engage them in community service and active citizenship. Building on our learning and past three years of experience of offering our signature leadership programs Building Bridges through Leadership Training (BBLT) and Building Bridges through Leadership Training Junior (BBLTJ)

Duration: 5 years
Funded by: The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

JAAGORON

Summary: JAAGORON is a youth-led civic engagement initiative designed to strengthen inclusive, rights-based local development in Bangladesh. The project will be implemented in nine upazilas across five districts Dhaka, Manikganj, Gazipur, Chattogram, and Satkhira districts of Bangladesh.The project aims to engage a total of 41,805 individuals through a combination of direct and indirect interventions.

Duration: 2 years 6 months
Funded by: GFA Consulting Group GmbH (GFA)

Creating a Sustainable and Prosperous Future for Bangladeshi Youth

Summary: The program aimed to equip 10,000 youth with the skills they needed to thrive in the current marketplace and build successful enterprises. BYLC believed that for young people to prosper in the 21st century economy they needed a set of skills that positioned them to become leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, effective communicators, and socially-minded citizens. These skills were missing in the current educational system and the slow pace of change in education was an impediment to millions of youth, who could not reach their full potential.

Duration: 5 years
Funded by: IKEA Foundation and The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Building Bridges through Leadership Training (BBLT) and Building Bridges through Leadership Training Junior (BBLTJ)

Summary: BYLC became the first organization in Bangladesh, through the BBLT and BBLTJ programs, to work at the intersection of the three different mediums of education, namely Bengali medium, English medium, and Madrasah. The programs helped students build their ability to understand and appreciate others with differing viewpoints and values, and thus, expanded their capacity to practice values of tolerance and pluralism.

Duration: 3 years
Funded by: The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Orange Corners Bangladesh

Summary: The Orange Corners programme took a 360-degree approach to ecosystem building by engaging key stakeholders in government, private sectors, educational and financial institutions, investment networks, youth organizations, local incubators, accelerators, etc. The Parties thereto exclusively collaborated with each other to access the vast youth network across Bangladesh,

Duration: 3 years
Funded by: The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Promoting Equality in Madrasah Students (PEMS)

Summary: Under the project ‘Promoting Equality in Madrasah Students (PEMS)’, Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC) designed and conducted a series of classes and workshops to improve the knowledge base of Madrasah students in Chattogram on topics such as civic education, peace, and tolerance to foster social inclusion and curb susceptibility towards radical and extremist ideologies.

Duration: 2 years
Funded by: US Embassy Dhaka

Youth Leadership for an Inclusive and Prosperous Bangladesh (YLIPB)

Summary: The project titled Youth Leadership for an Inclusive and Prosperous Bangladesh aimed to build the leadership capabilities of diverse youth through physical and online programs, instill in them values of tolerance and inclusiveness, engage them in active citizenship, and connect them to economic opportunities. Through its interventions, the project reached a total of 15,220 youth (direct beneficiaries) who received direct intensive interventions

Duration: 3 years
Funded by: Manusher Jonno Foundation/UK Aid

Promoting digital civic leadership among Bangladeshi youth

Summary: This project instilled a sense of civic leadership and pluralism among Bangladeshi youth. Through social media engagement and a blended learning program, youth learned ways to engage with authority and how they could work together to solve a collective social problem. The training curriculum was drawn on BYLC’s adaptive leadership curriculum that had been tested and refined at Harvard University over the last 35 years.

Duration: 1 year
Funded by: Meta

Empowered Youth Labor Force (EYLF)

Summary: A consortium was formed between BYLC, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, and Rutgers to develop a tailor-made SRHR curriculum that was integrated into BYLC’s existing youth-centric training programmes focusing on leadership, professional entrepreneurial skills, and into BYLC’s online learning platform. Through its unique position and infrastructure,

Duration: 1.3 years
Funded by: The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Chattogram Entrepreneurship Pilot Programme (CEPP)

Summery:
The Chattogram Entrepreneurship Pilot Programme (CEPP) was launched to foster youth entrepreneurship beyond Dhaka, successfully establishing a replicable model for regional ecosystem development. The initiative significantly surpassed its targets, mobilizing 168 applications against a goal of 100 and providing intensive training to 27 teams. The program’s core achievement was the deep-level incubation of five high-potential ventures, with a focus on sustainability and circular economy models.

Funded by: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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