National strategy for sustainable brick production in Bangladesh

There is an urgent need for national strategies and policy actions for cleaner and sustainable brick production in Bangladesh.

The overall objective of this initiative is to prepare a ‘National Strategy Paper’ and recommend policy actions for sustainable brick manufacturing industry in the country. This includes all elements of a strategic plan, but only with the level of detains allowed by available information and preliminary assessment. This initiative seeks to identify major social and economic concerns posed by the brick industry, assess various policy measures being implemented in the country that are relevant to brick sectors, capacity and policy gaps would need to be addressed to ensure effective strategic planning and options for addressing major challenges and problems posed by the brick sector. Most importantly this work will identify which priority actions could be mainstreamed into existing government policies; which will require new national initiatives; and which can simply adopt international best practices.