Digbijoy Dey is a Senior Programme Officer in IRC’s South Asia Regional Programme. He is an environment professional with over 12 years’ experience in the field of water and environment. He is IRC’s Country Representative in Bangladesh and works as a Sanitation Specialist. He has worked for countries outside South Asia such as Benin, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Togo and Vietnam. He has been working for IRC since 2018.
Before joining IRC, he worked on BRAC’s water and wastewater treatment programme, on faecal sludge management and water quality testing procedures. He has done his Masters in Environmental Management at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He has substantial research experience in Bangladesh and the Netherlands. He has published more than 12 scientific publications in international journals.
How does water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) fit within Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) how does this link up with the Sustainable... Read more...
Insight in the progress of the implementation of WASH component of the Pro-Poor Strategy at subnational level in Bangladesh. Read more...
Insight in the present WASH service monitoring systems and practices at subnational level in Bangladesh. Read more...
Informing Local Government Institutes about the strategy and how to adopt action plans for the implementation of the strategy. Read more...
A waste-to-energy solution for the co-treatment of faecal sludge, municipal solid waste and agri-waste in combination with aerosol can recycling. Read more...
Spreading the cost of faecal waste removal over a series of monthly payments could make it more affordable for poor households and help kick start... Read more...
Sharing a sanitation facility with just one to two other households can increase the risk of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) in young children,... Read more...
Decision-support tool to aid the identification of potentially appropriate drinking water methods for arsenic- and salt-mitigation in Bangladesh... Read more...
The report provides an overarching recommendation for the development of national capacity development strategies that have high-level political buy-... Read more...
BRAC WASH has researched how to develop a viable process for faecal sludge-based organic fertiliser. Read more...
This study evaluated the impact of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh on various issues related to water, sanitation and hygiene at household and... Read more...
This paper describes how the ASTRA tool can help identify potentially appropriate technical solutions fro the delivery of arsenic and saline-free... Read more...
What is the best technical solution to deal with arsenic-polluted and saline water in Bangladesh? When is it better to treat the water or to choose... Read more...
Paper presented at the South Asia Hygiene Practitioners Workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1 to 4 February 2010 Read more...