The SIP has significantly raised levels of health awareness among slum dwellers, resulting in significant reductions in the incidence of numerous diseases. The SIP has empowered poor women through community involvement, particularly through the savings and credit programme, thereby raising the overall status of women in families and communities. Some of the components of the project were barely able to reach the poorest of the poor, who remain virtually outside the reach of SIP credit and savings programmes. The land tenure issue has not yet been comprehensively addressed by the SIP. With physical infrastructure development, the non-physical needs such as human resource development, social mobilization, community organization, and participation, which are all vital for project sustainability, need to be further developed. Although slums have become an inevitable part of urban life and land use, eviction is still a constant threat to..

WaterAid Bangladesh has already demonstrated a successful model of Decentralized wastewater treatment system (DWTS), and now it is time to create a value addition from it. Recently a pilot work has been demonstrated on Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) from the treated domestic wastewater from the DWTS; a designed sand filter filters the treated water from DWTS, and the filtered water is being recharged in an aquifer for eight months. The amount of recharged water is 140.887 m³ until June 2019. From the start of the recharge, the electrical conductivity, water level, and recharge amount are being recorded periodically, and the microbiological test is also carried out at the laboratory. The final result shows gradual improvement of the treated water after passing through the sand filter tank. The value of wastewater quality parameters such as Fecal Coliform, Total Coliform, Electrical conductivity(EC) is improving. The major cations..

WaterAid Bangladesh — achieving sustainable environmental health WaterAid Bangladesh (WAB) has been working in Bangladesh implementing water, sanitation and hygiene promotion activities since 1986. In 2004 WAB started a 5-year DFID funded project called ‘Achieving Sustainable Environmental Health’ (ASEH) which aimed at reaching the poorest, geographically excluded people living in hydro-geologically difficult areas of the country. In little over 5 years the project has reached nearly 6million beneficiaries with safe and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene promotional activities in both urban and rural areas. During the implementation of ASEH it became evident that certain populations were unintentionally being excluded from the project – people with disabilities were one of these groups (others include sex workers, tea workers, street sweepers, floating people). The standard models used by front line staff and..

What are your thoughts on hygiene practices and the coping mechanisms for it in Bangladesh? The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics' 2018 National Hygiene Survey had five modules to help us understand hygiene practices for: households, schools, restaurants, street food vendors, and healthcare facilities. Among the households surveyed, only 40% of respondents said washing hands with soap and water before eating was important. That means we have a long way to go on our track to achieving hygiene-related practices and SDG..