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15 October 2018
Dohwa Engineering Co, Ltd., shares an overview of its wastewater projects in Uttara and Mirpur in Bangladesh. It highlights how the sewerage infrastructure to avoid intrusion of wastewater into water supply lines and to help prevent the drinking water pollution.
15 October 2018
Check out how Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is utilizing digital technology in providing improved services to its clients.
10 October 2018
Urban poverty has four major dimensions that reinforce each other. These are income and social poverty, environmental poverty, education poverty, and health poverty. These dimensions encompass issues such as employment insecurity, lack of access to opportunities and basic services, hazardous…
26 September 2018
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Its poor farmers are most vulnerable to calamities yet they are often excluded in risk-sharing mechanisms. Traditional credit mechanisms hardly reach them. This presentation shares how an ADB project increased the resilience of…
22 August 2018
ICT is emerging as a promising sector in Bangladesh; it employs more than 200,000 people. The market size of ICT services is about $2 billion and aims to reach $5 billion in 2021. The challenge is to train and prepare human capital, as most IT graduates are deemed not ready to start a job.
13 May 2018
This presentation presents a progress report on the Future Cities, Future Women Initiative (FCFWI), including challenges, opportunities, and immediate next steps.
The FCFWI is a gender-targeted initiative to identify and support key triggers that would accelerate women’s participation in urban…
25 April 2018
The presentation covers the following: (i) the World Bank Group's Gender Strategy 2016-2023; (ii) barriers to women's employment in the transport sector; (iii) the economic case for gender equality; (iv) operational lessons learned on what works and what does not; and (v) an overview of World Bank…
25 April 2018
The presentation discusses gender equality improvement program implemented by the Tbilisi Transportation Company, including an overview of the company's gender equality policy, and related benefits, training, and awareness-raising campaign.
24 April 2018
ADB and BWCCI have started their journey since September 2010. In line with this, with the technical and financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), BWCCI had implemented a project from August 2013 to November 2014 in Hatiya Upazila, Noakhali called “Enabling Poor Women’s…