D.Net's Infolady model trains rural Bangladeshi women as bicycle-riding info-entrepreneurs delivering health, agriculture and e-government services door-to-door; it reached roughly 300 villages …
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 9%96/100
Bangladesh's a2i programme has established 5,000+ community Digital Centres at union level bringing 150+ e-services to rural citizens; 76.8 million people served, …
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 20%89/100
Bangladesh's largest market-systems programme, Katalyst, worked with private firms to reach 4.75 million SMEs and farmers by 2018, generating a documented USD …
Since 2020, Google Research's machine-learning flood model — which forecasts river levels even in ungauged basins — has combined with Bangladesh Water …
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 36%78/100
Since 1977, icddr,b's family planning programme in Matlab, Bangladesh has been rigorously studied, cutting fertility ~25% — but 35-year follow-up finds no …
Matlab, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 29%76/100
A field experiment in 24 Bangladeshi garment factories randomly gave equally "marginal" men and women supervisor roles. Women started behind on ratings …
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 24%73/100
Bangladesh's a2i, GiveDirectly, UNDP and UC Berkeley piloted ML poverty-targeting from call-detail records across 106,200 Cox's Bazar households, but a World Bank …
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 48%70/100
D.Net's InfoLady (Kallyani) model trains rural Bangladeshi women as bicycle-riding info-entrepreneurs who deliver ICT-enabled health, agriculture, finance and government-service information door-to-door. 464 …
Running from 2008 to 2015, Bangladesh's UPPR programme funded community-led settlement improvements and livelihood support across 23 towns and cities, reaching an …
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%60/100
Bangladesh's NISE (2021) uses AI job-matching and skills forecasting to connect youth to employment. Over 1M registered, 300K+ job opportunities created, 2,000+ …
A Bangladeshi government programme training youth nationwide, to sub-district level, in graphic design, digital marketing and web development for the freelance economy …
Since 2019, nonprofit AI-for-Equity has run online coding and AI-ethics classes pairing Dhaka girls (15+) with US student mentors; independent reporting cites …
First systematic AI-readiness needs assessment and training for Bangladesh's primary teachers, under ADB's Fourth Primary Education Development Program. 1,253 teachers surveyed (Aug …
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 75%41/100
OpenAI-funded IRC chatbot 'aprendIA' gives teachers in Bangladesh's climate-vulnerable coastal districts lesson plans and disaster-risk content via WhatsApp; built in under 4 …
Dhaka (deployed in climate-vulnerable coastal districts), Bangladesh
SimPPL's WhatsApp chatbot delivers AI-generated, stigma-free menstrual-health guidance in Bangla to young girls in Dhaka, targeting the absenteeism menstruation causes for roughly …