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Presentation on Bangladesh Case

27 August 2024
Experience from ADB’s BRT Project in Dhaka

VIDEO The Impact of COVID19 and Government Lockdown on Childrens Schooling Time Use and Marriage Timing in Rural Bangladesh

17 November 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor in developing countries is increasingly becoming a matter of concern. The poor seem more vulnerable to the COVID-19 infection given a congested and unhygienic environment, and its insufficient treatment in a poor medical system. Not only these direct…

VIDEO Fighting Against Learning Crisis in Developing Countries A Randomized Experiment of Self Learning at the Right Level

17 November 2020
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a globally popular method of self-learning at the right level in improving learning outcome — the cognitive and non-cognitive abilities — of disadvantaged pupils in a developing country, Bangladesh. Using a randomized control trial design, we find…

VIDEO Nudging by Beauty Improving Womens Health1 Decisions and Wellbeing in the Field

17 November 2020
Health interventions often show limited effectiveness in influencing behavior as they fail to take into account the choice architecture. To shed light on how to improve health interventions, we evaluate a unique intervention in rural Bangladesh that highlights the importance of health, hygiene,…

FAQs for COVID19 Infection in Singapore

5 October 2020
This is a resource website by Singapore’s Ministry of Education, with guidelines for precautionary measures that can be adopted by schools, the conduct of national examinations and home-based learning.

Citywide inclusive sanitation WaterAids experience

11 June 2020
This presentation provided an overview of WaterAid’s approach, including (i) WaterAid’s framing of citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS); (ii) town-wide modeling: the experience in Sakhipur, Bangladesh; (iii) research and influencing to address the working conditions of sanitation workers (global…

WaterAid A WASH strong COVID19 response

9 June 2020
In this presentation, WaterAid shared their response to COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific, specifically in the eight countries they work in: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste. Given the changing dynamics of the pandemic, WaterAid has taken a…

Toxic Waste Control Control of Biohazardous Wastes

6 April 2020
Guidance from the Government of Singapore on the handling of infectious medical waste.

PublicPrivate Partnership Led Improved Fecal Sludge Management Services in Faridpur Municipality Bangladesh

28 September 2016
This presentation provides a brief situational analysis of the state of fecal sludge management in the municipality of Faridpur in Bangladesh. A business proposal was created to improve the system on a large scale adopting service level agreements with private sector service providers.

Health Financing

9 June 2016
A core question for a health system is not how to finance healthcare costs, but how to make tradeoffs among competing goals. This presentation looks into the health care philosophy applied by Singapore, and how its public health infrastructure and a tiered approach has built a health population.