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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...
Consultant-led sanitation marketing surveys typically take months to produce a thick report with largely impractical recommendations. The IRC International Water and Sanitation is developing a field tool that delivers, within just one week, a one-page overview matching sanitation supply and demand. Read more...
Government of India buys into post-construction support and service delivery issues Interview with Mekala Snehalatha, WASHCost India 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...
Photo-essay written and photographed for the Asia regional sanitation and hygiene practitioners work 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...
The Bangladesh government has reduced its allocation for water and sanitation by around 10 billion taka (US$ 121 million) in the proposed 2012-13 budget. Read more...
BRAC WASH II is the second phase of the WASH programme. It aims for a sustained change in personal/family hygiene, sanitation and water safety. The programme focuses on sustainably improved household and school sanitation and hygiene practices, and safe drinking water use. The BRAC WASH II... Read more...
BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water and sanitation programme across rural Bangladesh. Read more...
This video by BRAC relates the story of one determined teenager and her commitment to helping BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) achieve its goals. Read more...
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 8 February 2012 The effect of cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: a community-based, cluster-randomised trial Full-text Shams El Arifeen DrPH, et al. Background - Up to half of neonatal deaths in high mortality settings... Read more...
Paper written for the Asia regional sanitation and hygiene practitioners workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 31 January -2 February 2012 Read more...