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.
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...
The main objective of the evaluation was to ascertain whether the Benin Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project could be made sustainable with... Read more...