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Strengthening Disaster Management in Bangladesh: A Collaborative Workshop on SOD and NPDM Monitoring Systems

The SOD 2019 (Standing Orders on Disaster) and NPDM 2021-2025 Progress Monitoring and Tracking System (ProMoTS) workshop was held in Dhaka on 13 Nove...
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ADPC Organizes Institutional Visit to Thailand for Philippine Delegation

Mr. Hans Guttman (ADPC ED, second from left) and Mr. Aslam Perwaiz (ADPC DED, leftmost) share insights with Undersecratary Ariel Nepomuceno (OCD Admi...
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Inclusive Solution against COVID-19

Isolation is a norm for marginalized people. When a pandemic strikes, their exclusion from basic services is amplified. Their economic burdens and vu...
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The New Code of Conduct

Pandemics create a state of alert, enforcing changes in daily behavior. The COVID-19 outbreak introduced the new normal into our everyday life. Socia...
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Taking Medical Intern-ventions

Dr. Ramim Islam looks inside the surface. A medical officer specializing in internal medicine at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH)- he can d...
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Lifelines to Life on the Line

Medical practitioners are risk assessors. “We handle the quality of life so our approach considers the worst outcomes with every case,” states Dr. Re...
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Never too Small for Hope – Part II (Transport and Logistics)

If success is a journey, our everyday transport is what gets us there. There are 15 million locals on trains while others hit the road on jeepneys (s...
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Never Too Small for Hope- Part III (Service Economy)

From the dry-cleaners around the corner to the carpenter that makes our house a home, service sector workers are the backbones of our everyday. The&n...