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.
WASH organisations successfully lobby to include more questions about WASH in the 2022 National Population and Housing Census. 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...
This qualitative research study aims to understand perceptions, barriers, and motivators for improved sanitation behaviour in rural India. 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...
After a donor-funded water and sanitation project in Mirzapur, Bangladesh, had ended, the family latrines were still found in good working order,... Read more...
Failure to involve the community, led to the intitial failure of a sanitation project, funded by DANIDA, in the village of Maina, near Nyahururu, in... Read more...