Social Welfare

Community engagement and capacity building, gender and child rights, health, sanitation and social services.

What we do

  1. Community Engagement, Mobilization, Resilience and Capacity Building

    DPDS is delivering this work under the World Bank-financed RIVER Project for LGED (2024–2028). Earlier work includes capacity-building consultancy under PLCEHD-2 for the Bureau of Non-Formal Education (2010–2012) and support to the ACCC-PEDP II Technical Support Team-1 on organisational development and capacity building of primary education (2007–2009).

  2. Gender & Child Rights

    DPDS carried out the impact evaluation of 'TotthoApa: Empowering Women through ICT towards Digital Bangladesh' for IMED, Ministry of Planning (2018). For the Ministry of Home Affairs, it evaluated Community Based Work to Develop Child Protection Mechanisms (CDCPM) in 2010.

  3. Health, Sanitation & Social Services

    DPDS carried out in-depth monitoring of the 'Hospital Services Management' operational plan for IMED, Ministry of Planning (2022). It was also monitoring and evaluation consultant for the additional financing of the Emergency Multi-Sector Rohingya Crisis Response Project (World Bank, 2022–2024). That financing included LGED's disaster shelters, roads, bridges and community centres. It also included community latrines, composting biogas plants and integrated waste-management systems implemented by the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE).

Selected assignments

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Ongoing

Community Engagement, Mobilization, Resilience and Capacity Building under RIVER Project

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)

Funded byThe World Bank · April 2024 – June 2028
Completed

Impact Evaluation of 'TotthoApa: Empowering Women through ICT towards Digital Bangladesh' (2nd Revised)

IMED, Ministry of Planning

Funded byDevelopment Fund GOB · February 2018 – June 2018
Completed

Evaluation of Community Based Work to Develop Child Protection Mechanisms (CDCPM)

Ministry of Home Affairs

Funded byGovernment of Bangladesh · May 2010 – July 2010
Completed

Support Services to ACCC-PEDP II Technical Support Team-1: Organizational Development and Capacity Building of Primary Education

Directorate of Primary Education (DPE)

Funded byAssociation of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC), Canada · November 2007 – June 2009
  1. Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy Services (Additional Financing), Emergency Multi-Sector Rohingya Crisis Response Project (EMCRP)

    Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) · 2022 – 2024

    Funded byThe World Bank
  2. In-depth Monitoring, 'Hospital Services Management' Operational Plan

    IMED, Ministry of Planning · 2022

    Funded byDevelopment Fund GOB
  3. Consultancy Services for Capacity Building, Post Literacy and Continuing Education for Human Development Project-2 (PLCEHD-2)

    Bureau of Non-Formal Education (BNFE), MoPME · May 2010 – January 2012

    Funded byAsian Development Bank

All projects

Funders and agencies

  • Government of Bangladesh
  • The World Bank
  • Asian Development Bank
  • Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC), Canada
  • Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
  • IMED, Ministry of Planning

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