Dhaka, Nov. 12 -- based Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI) has launched two programmes to improve environmental sustainability, social compliance and export readiness among Bangladesh's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the home textiles and leather sectors.

The programmes, titled "Sustainable Home Textiles Bangladesh (2025-2030)" and "Bangladesh Leather x Decent Work (2025-2029)," were launched at the Bangladesh-Netherlands Sustainable Trade Forum 2026 in Dhaka on Wednesday.

The forum was organised by CBI, part of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), under the commission of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Commerce, Industries, Textiles and Jute Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir said the...