Community Engagement, Mobilization, Resilience and Capacity Building under RIVER Project
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
Community engagement and capacity building, gender and child rights, health, sanitation and social services.

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).
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.
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).
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
IMED, Ministry of Planning
Ministry of Home Affairs
Directorate of Primary Education (DPE)
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) · 2022 – 2024
IMED, Ministry of Planning · 2022
Bureau of Non-Formal Education (BNFE), MoPME · May 2010 – January 2012
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