Top UNOPS official to visit Dhaka tomorrow to review cooperation with Bangladesh
The UN official will converge with high-ranking government officials and advisers of the interim government, focusing on sectors in which UNOPS is already collaborating, such as healthcare, climate change and sustainable infrastructure
Kirstine Damkjaer, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations and deputy executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (11 February) for a two-day official visit.
"The visit aims to review the stage of cooperation between the government of Bangladesh and UNOPS to identify additional areas of cooperation focusing on issues of climate change, disasters and development cooperation," reads a press statement issued by the UNOPS Bangladesh today (10 February).
The UN official will converge with high-ranking government officials and advisers of the interim government, focusing on sectors in which UNOPS is already collaborating, such as healthcare, climate change and sustainable infrastructure, it adds.
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She will also visit the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), one of the 29 hospitals benefiting from the PSA oxygen plant project being implemented by UNOPS with funding from The Global Fund and in collaboration with the National Malaria Elimination Program, the Centre for Disease Control and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
This initiative is among the most significant healthcare support projects currently being implemented in Bangladesh.
During her visit to the hospital, Damkjaer is expected to meet with the Director General of the DGHS.
According to the press statement, UNOPS supports Bangladesh in advancing the country's healthcare services.
UNOPS is also implementing the EU-UNOPS Lives in Dignity Grant Facility for the climate-induced migrants in the coastal regions with other stakeholders.
The UN agency supported Bangladesh as a fund manager through the 'Strengthening Humanitarian Preparedness and Response' programme.
In climate change and environmental sustainability, UNOPS supports the South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) in implementing the "Plastic Free Rivers and Seas for South Asia" project, financed by the World Bank.
Moreover, UNOPS has provided extensive procurement services to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) to strengthen its operational capacities.
