Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program
Country : Bangladesh
Assignment Location: All six cities of Bangladesh
Name of the assignment: Supplementary TA on Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program
Name of Client: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Duration of assignment : 11(eleven) months
Status: Completed
Professional Experts/Staff provided by Your Organization:
No of Experts: 03
No of Staff: 10
No of person-Months: 15
Start Date(Month/Year) : November, 2009- Completion Date(Month/Year): September, 2010
Name of the associated Consultants, if any: IPE Global (Pvt.) Ltd. India. and Commitment Consultants
Objectives of the Project:
Bangladesh government signed a contract with ADB to develop a program on urban public health and environment sector development with the budget of $ 130 million. Maximum portion of the budget allocation has been kept for solid and health care waste management. Commitment Consultants, as a partner organization of IPE (India), was assigned to provide its expert input on the planned components of the project
Detail Description of Actual Services Provided by CC’s Experts and Staff:
CC in association with IPE provided Technical Assistance to ADB for UPEHSD program. Following were the main activities:
- Reviewed the relevant policies, act and rules;
- Reviewed the current situation of solid and healthcare waste management;
- Reviewed the institutional, financial, human resource, occupational health safety, CDM applicability and provide guideline in these sectors;
- Guideline to implement the acts and rules;
- Developed the working model
- Provided the typical engineering models for Secondary transfer station and sanitary landfill;
Submitted the inception report, midterm report, three workshop reports and final report.