Advancing Bangladesh’s Leather Sector: Challenges, Opportunities and Reform

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Policy Dialogue Report Advancing Bangladesh’s Leather Sector: Challenges, Opportunities and Reform Bangladesh’s leather, footwear and non-leather industries have significant potential to expand exports, generate employment and attract investment ahead of LDC graduation. Realising this potential will require progress in addressing long-standing structural, environmental and regulatory barriers. Prepared following the policy dialogue titled Advancing Bangladesh’s Leather…

SANEM Roundup | Volume 1, Issue 8 | October 2026

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This issue of SANEM Roundup presents highlights from June to September 2026. During this period, SANEM provided technical support to the Department of Environment and ILO in developing Bangladesh’s Just Transition Chapter for the NDC 3.0 Implementation Plan, with financial support from the Embassy of Sweden. Together with Invest Bangladesh and ADB, SANEM held a sensitisation meeting and seven regional workshops for the Survey of Industries in Bangladesh. Other engagements included participatory workshops with young workers alongside ActionAid Bangladesh, a policy dialogue on the leather sector with FLAXA supported by the Australian High Commission (DFAT), a report dissemination event on agricultural public spending with the World Bank, a public lecture by Professor Jean-Louis Arcand on AI and labour markets, and an international training on CGE modelling in Kathmandu, co-hosted with IFPRI and Tribhuvan University.