A photo story about the construction of five community latrines by the HYSAWA Fund in Bangladesh. Read more...
“People are developing a taste for healthy living. They want improvement‑compared to us and what we are doing, they want better.” Md Amin Uddin one of the elders in Arua village in Keshabpur upazila, Jessore district, Bangladesh is optimistic about the future. Read more...
In Bangladesh, the largest NGO in the world BRAC is working its way up to help the country to get proper sanitation. It has reached more than half of the population since the start nine years ago. It is one of the world's largest sanitation implementation programmes. IRC works with BRAC to make it... Read more...
This study evaluated the impact of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh on various issues related to water, sanitation and hygiene at household and... Read more...
A verification survey found that a significantly higher proportion of ultra-poor households had installed latrines and were actually using them than... Read more...
The world will not reach the sanitation Millennium Development Goal. There are still 1 in 3 people worldwide without access to safe sanitation. Within 15 years we want universal sanitation coverage and we know that we need to do something drastically different to reach scale and to reach the... Read more...
Can faecal sludge from pit latrines based in rural areas in Bangladesh be processed in a financially sustainable manner. Read more...
Providing solutions for the safe and commercially viable collection and composting of faecal sludge for use in agriculture and horticulture in... Read more...
BRAC WASH has had a transformative effect on latrine construction in Bagherpara, Bangladesh – especially for the ultra-poor who cannot afford to... Read more...
At the 14th World Toilet Summit 2015, BRAC received the "Hall of Fame Award" for significant contributions to the sanitation sector in Bangladesh. Read more...
BRAC plans to expand its scope beyond WASH to water security and from rural to urban areas, as well as moving from service provider to facilitator. Read more...
The BRAC Environmental WASH Programme will expand its scope beyond WASH towards water security and from rural to urban areas, while moving from... Read more...
In Bangladesh, the lack of separate latrines for girls and menstrual hygiene facilities in secondary schools are major factors in the disproportionate rate of absence and dropout of adolescent girls. Read more...
This is how the BRAC WASH programme (2006-2015) is achieving lasting behaviour change and transforming hygiene, sanitation and water services with half the rural population of Bangladesh, using an equity-based approach and sustained intensive interaction. Read more...
A lot of effort is put into getting everyone in the world access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitary services, but is everyone really included? As recent as 2011 the first ever world report on disability has been published by the World Health Organization and the World Bank (2011). It... Read more...
How can the health and the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors work together to reduce worm reinfection in Bangladesh. Read more...