Ongoing Projects

• Bangladesh–Japan Consortium for Sustainable Land and Water for Healthy Life (2025-26). Client: Rapidly Japan, Bindoo Next, and RED Ltd.

• Baseline Study of the Strengthening Livelihoods of Poor Farmers through Inclusive Value Chain Development (SLPFIVCD-II) Project (2026); Client: CCDB, Transform Aid and AusAid

• Climate Resilient Sanitation: Safely-managing Livestock and Human Wastewater in Vulnerable and Environmentally Fragile Areas of Bangladesh, 2024 (RED)

Completed Projects            

• Water access for livelihood security in the Bandarban District: A baseline assessment, 2024 (RED & CCDB).
• Evaluation of the Strengthening Livelihoods of Poor Farmers through Inclusive Value Chain Development (SLPFIVCD) Project, 2025 (CCDB, Transform Aid, Australian Aid, and RED)
• End-term Evaluation, Project Completion, and Feasibility Study of the Agro-Meteorological Information Systems Development Project (AMISDP, 2017-24) (Kranti Associates, DAE, and the World Bank).
• Impact Evaluation of Green Innovation for Resilience Building (GIRB) Project (2024) (CCDB Bangladesh).
• Enhancing Institutional Capacity on Emergency Preparedness and Response (2023-24) (The World Bank and Government of Bangladesh).
• Impact Evaluation of Green Innovation for Resilience Building (GIRB) Project (2024) (CCDB Bangladesh)
• Evaluation of Comprehensive Poverty Reduction Program (CPRP-V) (2023-24) (CCDB Bangladesh).
• Situation of clean stoves and fuels in Bangladesh (2022–23) (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China).
• Develop a drought prediction model and weekly outlook; develop hydrological services products (2022-23) (Bangladesh Water Development Board, BWDB C15) (EIMS, BWBD, and the World Bank).
• Project evaluation of creating youth employment and child protection projects (2023) (Comprehensive Poverty Reduction Programme (CPRP) of CCDB).
• Livelihood and market assessment at Bandarban (2022) (Comprehensive Poverty Reduction Programme (CPRP) of CCDB).
• Household finished flooring as a guard against enteric illness in children (2020-21) (BRAC University).
• Consumer awareness of nutrition, food safety, and hygiene (2020-21) (FAO, USAID, EC, and the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of GOB).
• Household food insecurity after the early monsoon flash flood of 2017 among wetland (Haor) communities of northeastern Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study (2020-21).
• Effectiveness of WASH services for Rohingya and host communities in Cox’s Bazar (2020) (The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) through BRAC WASH Program).
• Impacts of climate change on groundwater level and irrigation cost in a groundwater-dependent irrigated region (2017-18) (Tohoku University, Japan).
• Exploring suitable sites for installing safe drinking water wells in coastal Bangladesh (2017-18) (BRAC WASH Program).
• Microbial contamination of drinking water from risky tubewells situated in different hydrological regions of Bangladesh (2015-17) (BRAC WASH Program).
• Co-Principal Investigator
• Groundwater-dependent irrigation costs and benefits for adaptation to global change (2016–17) (Tohoku University, Japan).
• Water quality and willingness to pay for safe drinking water in the coastal area of Bangladesh (2017-18) (BRAC WASH Program).
• Assessing effectiveness of recent humanitarian responses in different disaster-prone areas of Bangladesh (2017-18) (AusAid and DFID, Strategic Partnership Agreement).
• Optimum abstraction of groundwater for sustaining groundwater level and reducing irrigation cost (2015-17) (Tohoku University, Japan).
• Groundwater-dependent irrigation costs and benefits for adaptation to global change (2015-17) (Tohoku University, Japan).
• Environmental and social impact assessment of Dhaka-Chattagram-Cox's Bazar Rail Preparatory Facility Project (DCCBRPFP) (2017) (ENRAC, BCL, and The World Bank).
• Impact of the 2017 early monsoon flash flood: potential measures to safeguard livelihoods from extreme climate events in the Haor area of Bangladesh (2017) (Disaster Risk Management Program, BRAC).
• Developing a bankable project proposal on adaptation initiative for climate vulnerable offshore small islands and charland in Bangladesh (2016-17) (UNDP through C3ER of BRAC University).
• Impact of Flash Flood'17: Perspective from the Heart Area of Bangladesh (2017) (AusAid and DFID, Strategic Partnership Agreement through BRAC WASH Program).
• Effectiveness of a community-based water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) intervention in reduction of diarrhoea among under-five children: Evidence from a repeated cross-sectional study (2007–2015) in rural Bangladesh (2015–17) (BRAC WASH Program).
• Process evaluation of the project on vulnerability reduction of women affected by climate change in coastal areas of Bangladesh (UN Women in 2015 through BRAC Disaster Management and Climate Change Program).
• Value chain of agricultural products in disaster-prone areas of Bangladesh (2015) (Oxfam through C3ER of BRAC University).
• Sustainability of WASH implementation services for improving access to sanitation, water, and hygiene practices: post-endline assessment (2015) (FAO, USAID, and EC of the United Nations and Food Planning and Monitoring Unit, GOB).
• Sustainability of WASH implementation services for improving access to sanitation, water, and hygiene practices: post-endline assessment (2015) (FAO, USAID, and EC of the United Nations and Food Planning and Monitoring Unit, GOB).
• Food security, water productivity, and poverty: A comparative study between India and Bangladesh (2014) (International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN).
• Water balance study in the coastal area of Bangladesh (2014) (FAO of the UN).
• Groundwater uses and management in the coastal zone of Bangladesh (2014) (International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka).
• Environmental sanitation at rural households in BRAC-WASH program areas (2012-13) (BRAC RED).
• Exploring the gap between hand washing knowledge and practices in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional comparative study (2011–12) (BRAC WASH Program).
• Sustainability of groundwater use for irrigation in NW Bangladesh (2011–12) (FAO, USAID, EC, and Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of GOB).
• Case studies and best practice research on empowering women through clean cookstove projects in Bangladesh (2012) (UN Foundation, USA).
• Assessing land use changes and land degradation in Bangladesh (2012) (Noakhali Science and Technology University).
• Pilot interventions of improved cookstoves in rural areas: Assessment of effects on fuel use, smoke emissions, and health (2010-12) (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division).
• Poor air pollution and its health impact (2nd phase) (2010-11) (Yale and Stanford University, USA).
• Assessing environmental and health impacts of drought in northwest Bangladesh (2011) (BRAC).
• Impact of biogas plant in local environment and households’ health improvement for Social Development Studies, General Economic Division (2010) (Social Development Services, General Economic Division, Ministry of Planning, GOB).
• Status of arsenic test and exposure to arsenic-contaminated tube-well water: a population-based study in southern Bangladesh (2009-10) (BRAC WASH Program).
• Impact of intensive cropping on degradation of natural resources in some selected AEZs of Bangladesh (2008) (FAO, USAID, and EC of the United Nations and Food Planning and Monitoring Unit, GOB).
• MDG7 Needs Assessment and Costing (2009-2015) (UNDP and GED, GOB); A situation analysis report on environment (MDG7) Bangladesh; 2008 (UNDP and GED, GOB).
• Assessing the economic benefits of improved irrigation management: a case study of Bangladesh (2003-06) (Department of Agricultural Extension, GOB).
• Shallow groundwater quality due to pesticide use in agriculture field (2002-03) (Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology, Bangladesh, GOB).
• Field verification of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity models based on soil moisture retention data (2000-02) (Water Resources Engineering Department).