UN Asst Secy-Gen Kirstine to visit BD on Tuesday

NN Online:

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and UNOPS Deputy Executive Director Kirstine Damkjaer will be on an official visit to Bangladesh from Tuesday (February 11) to Wednesday (February 12).

“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 UN press release issued Monday.

Damkjaer will meet with the advisers and high-ranking government officials focusing on sectors in which UNOPS is already collaborating, such as Healthcare, Climate Change and Sustainable Infrastructure.

The UN Assistant Secretary-General 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.

This initiative is among the most significant healthcare support projects currently being implemented in Bangladesh.

In the areas of 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.