PPRC

In 2015, PPRC with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Bank organized the first international conference on universal health coverage (UHC) in Bangladesh. PPRC's interest in the health agenda arose from the twin realization that health is a poverty driver unless out-of-pocket health expenses are brought within rational levels and that health can also be a growth driver through a holistic agenda of healthcare and social determinants of health leading to a healthier population. In 2017, PPRC facilitated the establishment of a multi-profession civic platform Healthy Bangladesh in the presence of the Health Minister. PPRC has been promoting a grass-root discourse on the multi-dimensional health agenda and preparing an analytical framework on UHC progress indicators. PPRC, Healthy Bangladesh and UNDP distributed PPEs during Covid-19 to municipality workers in 16 municipalities and 1 city corporation. PPRC and Healthy Bangladesh also urged national policy action towards..

Primary location: Dhaka