Projects

Highlights: 

• Identifying and prioritizing agricultural and manufacturing risks and risk management gaps and needs.

• Estimating the likelihood of risk events occurring together with the socio-economic and environmental impacts.

• Developing comprehensive sectoral risk mitigation and response planning matrix.

• Developing risk tracking, controlling, and reporting matrix, and guidelines to implement the tools.

Responsibilities: 

Conducting literature reviews, conducting trainings for data collectors, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data via Stata and SPSS, co-authoring the report.

Highlights: 

• Identified the access to community infrastructures, such as water, sanitation and waste management facilities ensuring coordination and collaboration with relevant departments of the city authority.

• Covered 2 City Corporations of Bangladesh. 

• Conducted 810 quantitative and 46 qualitative data. 

Responsibilities: 

Performed literature reviews, analyzed quantitative and qualitative data, co-authored the report.

Highlights: 

The project explored the perceived impact of school closure due to COVID-19 on the most marginalized children and adolescents in Bangladesh. Students forgetting previous lessons, losing foundational skills, losing numeracy and literacy skills, struggling to comprehend new lessons, and experiencing a decline in academic engagement and accomplishment were identified as significant effects across all marginalized groups. It was found that limited educational possibilities, economic stress at the household level, child marriage, and child labor were the primary reasons why some students dropped out of school during the closure period. Indirectly, the shutdown of schools had also led to children exposed to harmful activities such as child labor, child marriage, episodes of violence, and human trafficking. The closure had altered the lifestyle, habits, mental state, and range of social connections of marginalized children, which had an effect on their mental health and general well-being. 

Responsibilities: 

Performed literature reviews, analyzed qualitative data, co-authored the report.

Highlights: 

The objectives of the evaluation were to verify actual outputs and, if possible, outcomes of the project with the available data, verify that the humanitarian principles and standards including Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) are respected, understand the beneficiary satisfaction, assess the contributions of the project to Joint Response Plan 2021 and JPF’s program goals and to document and extract lessons learned and best practices and provide robust recommendations to improve future projects and Program. This evaluation used a mixed-method approach, consisting of qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection. Along with a desk-based document review, the study team conducted/collected 96 household information, 8 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), 2 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), 11 In-depth Interviews (IDIs), and a physical observation.  Throughout its period, the project learned various lessons, some positive, but some challenging. For example, addressing the religious and cultural preferences of the FDMN community proved to be effective in intervening. Regular follow-up and door-to-door services effectively covered vulnerable and marginalized patients. Health volunteers were found to be an effective instrument in making the community aware. Also, recruiting health volunteers from the community itself was an effective initiative. Leaders such as Majhee, Imam, and school teachers helped effectively assess the community needs. The use of emojis, rather than in written form, as a means of complaint receiving mechanism, is effective in the camp setting as a mechanism that also includes the illiterate beneficiaries. The absence of separate waiting rooms for men and women can discourage women from attending health post. However, limited space in the health post made it impossible to have a separate waiting room inside it.

Responsibilities: 

Performed literature reviews, conducted interviews (IDIs and FGDs), analyzed quantitative and qualitative data, co-authored the report.

Highlights: 

• Collected and evaluated the endline data/ information of project to measure the most significant changes for beneficiaries, institutions, and communities.

• Covered 23 Upazilas (4 Upazilas in Bandarban, 9 Upazilas in Khagrachari and 10 Upazilas in Rangamati District) in CHT.

• Collected 1552 quantitative data and 49 qualitative data.

• The study recommended to encourage adoption and use of climate adaptation technology in agriculture, produced agricultural products using such technology should be offered a premium price. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change should be fully engaged in this initiative via crop inspections along with the Ministry of Agriculture who will carry out crop yield assessment and supervise harvesting practices and delivery to maize buyers.

Responsibilities: 

Performed literature reviews, analyzed quantitative and qualitative data, co-authored the report.

Highlights: 

• Explored the factors that affect the capital market development in Bangladesh and how financial literacy affect capital market.

• Collected data from four districts of Sylhet Division.

Responsibilities: 

Performed literature reviews, prepared tools, collected primary data, analyzed qualitative and quantitative data, co-authored the report.

Highlights: 

• Examined the nexus among bank competition, efficient, and financial stability in Bangladesh.

• Considered 30 banks in Bangladesh.

Responsibilities: 

Performed literature reviews, prepared tools, collected primary data, analyzed qualitative and quantitative data, co-authored the report.