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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
Government Watch
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The DPHE is focused on providing safe water access to the 11% of the population at risk of arsenic contamination and transitioning to climate-resilient infrastructure.
DPHE initiated an online recruitment process for 280 Office Assistant positions.
The Local Government Division reconstituted the National Committee on the Prevention of Dengue, including DPHE representation.
The World Bank released an Implementation Completion and Results Report for the Bangladesh Municipal Water Supply and Sanitation Project.
The Minister for Local Government reported that DPHE has installed 1,215,948 arsenic-safe water sources.
DPHE established 1936 (British East Bengal administration), sanitation mandate added 1945, rehabilitated post-1971 independence. Parent is Local Government Division (slug: local-government-division), which itself falls under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives. Head title is 'Chief Engineer' (not Director General); current incumbent is Md. Abdul Awal with 'Routine Duties' designation, confirmed from official DPHE officer list (dphe.gov.bd); head_since is null because no appointment date is published in accessible primary sources. Staff count 6,879 (Class I: 231, Class II: 713, Class III: 3,137, Class IV: 2,798) sourced from assignmentpoint.com citing DPHE institutional profile; no contradicting primary figure found. Annual budget not separately published; embedded in LGD ADP envelope. Arsenic contamination confirmed in 61 of 64 districts, 249 of 470 upazilas above 50 ppb threshold; DPHE first identified contamination in Chapai Nawabganj in late 1993. On the '$375M Metro Dhaka Water' specification: the correct verified figure is $370 million (World Bank Board approval February 10, 2026, P506770); DPHE is NOT a direct implementing agency on this project -- it is implemented by Dhaka North/South City Corporations, Narayanganj City Corporation, Gazipur City Corporation, and DWASA, coordinated by LGD; the $375M figure does not match any verified source. BD Rural WASH P169342: World Bank $300M + GoB $50M co-financing, approved August 20, 2020; DPHE co-implements with PKSF. BMWSSP P161227: World Bank + AIIB $100M municipal water project, DPHE sole implementing agency; loan closed December 31, 2024. Verification based on 2+ independent primary sources for all major factual claims. safely managed drinking water national coverage approximately 59% (JMP 2025 report via UNICEF data); safely managed sanitation 37% (2024, up from 25% in 2015).