In August 2024, just three weeks after a popular uprising had forced Sheikh Hasina to resign as prime minister of Bangladesh and flee the country entirely, we were asked to design an urgent in-person training course for leading investigative journalists in the country.

The request came from MRDI, Bangladesh's leading media development agency, with whom we had worked previously in 2018. MRDI was conscious that there would be an improved media climate to publish stories on corruption and money laundering linked to the previous government.

Funded by the Fojo Media Institute in Sweden, we moved quickly to outline a comprehensive Follow the Money training programme led by three FU journalists just outside Dhaka. For three days, we worked with a group of top Bangladeshi journalists from leading TV, radio and online outlets.

The journalists were handpicked by MRDI and committed to producing stories following the training they attended. Many of these stories became lead items.

Following this three-day session, we spent two days with 20 reporters at The Daily Star, the country's most respect English language newspaper. Here we covered similar ground and formed working relations with editors and reporters that have endured.