Bangladesh Chapter

Catalyst Now Bangladesh is a growing community of social innovators, practitioners, and changemakers committed to advancing systems-level solutions for sustainable development. As part of the global Catalyst Now movement, the chapter connects local actors across sectors to collaborate, learn, and co-create responses to Bangladesh’s most pressing social, economic, and climate challenges, while amplifying local voices within a global SDG-driven ecosystem.

Year of the lanuch

2023

Collaborations chair(s)

Ananya Raihan

Ashish Damle

Contact person

Sheher Bano

Number of members

Ashish Damle, Ananya Raihan, Sheher Bano

Engagement with Government

No

Engagement with Private sector

No

Chairs

Ananya Raihan

Infolady Social Enterprise Limited (iSocial)

 Dhaka

iSocial hopes to leverage the global, regional, and local networks to offer its ecosystem-building and evidence-backed policy advocacy support to social entrepreneurs and to gain in-depth understanding of the local and global practices and advancements in the SDGs it focuses in.

Ashish Damle

Independent (Ashish Damle)

 Dhaka

To build the ecosystem of social enterprising in Bangladesh with influencing the ecosystem members.

Coordinators

Sheher Bano

Catalyst Now

 Pakistan

 Islamabad

NA

Collaborators

Ananya Raihan

Infolady Social Enterprise Limited (iSocial)

 Dhaka

iSocial hopes to leverage the global, regional, and local networks to offer its ecosystem-building and evidence-backed policy advocacy support to social entrepreneurs and to gain in-depth understanding of the local and global practices and advancements in the SDGs it focuses in.

Ashish Damle

Independent (Ashish Damle)

 Dhaka

To build the ecosystem of social enterprising in Bangladesh with influencing the ecosystem members.

Sheher Bano

Catalyst Now

 Pakistan

 Islamabad

NA