icddr b - Institutional Support 2018-2022

Results achieved at the end of the project (April 2018 - December 2023) include: (1) continued to fulfill its mandate developing low-cost high-impact health interventions suitable for low-income settings around the world and providing free health services to the most poor and vulnerable; (2) responded quickly to health emergencies and humanitarian crises such as cholera epidemics and the Rohingya refugee crisis; (3) streamlined its business processes and worked towards launching an enterprise resource planning system; (4) continued to reflect the priorities and needs of its beneficiaries. Partnered with renowned institutions such as Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University to develop innovations for low- and middle-income countries; (5) prepared 137 peer-reviewed publications on low-cost solutions that particularly benefit women and girls; (6) conducted 18 research projects on low-cost solutions that particularly benefit women and girls. Cumulatively produced 690 peer-reviewed publications in areas such as maternal newborn and children’s health climate change and combatting communicable and non-communicable diseases; (7) provided free health care to 1 716 744 patients (829 358 women and 887 386 men); (8) provided surveillance on COVID-19 and trained 755 government doctors on managing COVID-19 cases; (9) led a campaign to provide oral cholera vaccine to 2.5 million people in cholera-prone areas of Dhaka leading to an end of a cholera epidemic in 2022; (10) implemented a human resources software system that has streamlined human resources and made payroll processes more efficient; and (11) conducted initiatives to improve efficiency lowering its administrative and management operating costs from 17% in 2018 to 9.3% in 2023.