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I write and post about accountability & transparency, food politics, feminism, aid & Bangladesh, but don't let that put you off
Oct 23, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
Is anywhere as good as Bangladesh at learning from disasters? ‘Never waste a good crisis’ is virtually official policy. So when COVID19 hit, amidst great fear & uncertainty, the GoB quickly grasped that it needed to learn how to listen to its citizens better. 🇧🇩 1/ Image Over the past year, a team from @AcctResearchCtr @BIGD_bracu Rajshahi & Jahangirnagar Universities & @ManusherJonno studied whether and how the Bangladesh government listened and responded to its citizens during COVID19.

The findings were unexpected. 2/ bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/l…
Apr 3, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
1. Bangladesh is in lockdown again from Monday. It looks sadly essential - & in fact overdue #Bangladesh #bangladeshlockdown 🇧🇩 2. But will anyone comply? CAN people stay home when so many live on what they can earn day to day?
Nov 12, 2020 10 tweets 6 min read
50 years ago today was the Bhola cyclone, one of the deadliest tropical storms in world history. It killed up to half a million people in what was then East #Pakistan, and triggered the #Bangladesh liberation war The Pakistani authorities were negligent & frankly unconcerned about the devastation in their eastern wing. (A bit like President Trump's response to #hurricane Maria in #PuertoRico). Weeks later they held the first democratic election in #Pakistan's history