Video highlighting the activities and achievements of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh, which started in 2007. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme has helped establish 80,000 Village WASH Committees, whose members are so engaged they're even going into politics. Read more...
A sanitation project's work is not finished with the installation of a pit latrine. What happens a year or two later, when the latrine is full? Read more...
Reflections by Dr Christine Sijbesma and Mahjabeen Ahmed on the QIS monitoring system. Read more...
Mrs Rasheda Sahab, a 38-year old widow, has become a successful sanitation entrepreneur, thanks to BRAC's microcredit programme. Read more...
Student Shahanaz Parveen can now openly talk about aspects of menstruation with other adolescent girls from her village and school. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme is fighting taboos around menstrual hygiene management. Read more...
A sub-district chairman and a schoolteacher/imam in Chittagong, Bangladesh talk to Dick de Jong about their roles in WASH delivery. Read more...
Faecal sludge from millions of pit latrines around the world is being dumped indiscriminately. What can be done to stop this new sanitation challenge? Read more...
A fan of the QIS system of participatory monitoring in Bangladesh came to The Hague to share her knowledge. Read more...
Have a question on how BRAC WASH became the world's largest programme of it's kind? Ask the experts during a one hour live twitter chat on 28 February 2013 on 21:00 (GMT+6). Chat with Babar Kabir, Senior Director of BRAC WASH, as well as sanitation expert, Joep Verhagen of IRC. Please use the... Read more...
The Village Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Committee (VWC) is one of the cornerstones of the BRAC WASH programme at community level. 46,000 committees consisting of both men and women have been formed and are supported by the programme. Read more...
Joep Verhagen quizzes BRAC's senior director and the BRAC WASH programme director about a range of WASH issues and innovations. Read more...
Innovative monitoring tools are being used to provide sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to almost 55 million people in Bangladesh. Read more...
Innovative research on the potential of turning the faecal waste from millions of pit latrines in Bangladesh into fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Read more...
This is a photo story about Bilkis Begum a single mother of five who has installed a toilet in her house. She was able to do this with the help of the BRAC WASH programme which gives out subsidies to the hardcore poor for installing a twin pit latrine. Read more...
Driven amongst others by the mobile phone applications, more and more statistics are becoming available on the state of water services. These go well beyond the coverage data we were used to in the JMP reports (and which this year gave us some reason to be mildly optimistic). The new stats provide... Read more...
IRC is happy to announce two research calls in the field of sanitation: Low-cost sanitation technologies for areas with high groundwater tables Faecal sludge secondary treatment options These calls are part of the BRAC WASH II programme in which EUR 1.5 million will be used for innovative research... Read more...