WaterAid celebrates the launch of National Strategy on "Hand Hygiene for All'

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23 October 2022
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On 20 October 2022, the Local Government Division, Policy Support Branch, Unicef, and WaterAid co-organized a national conference on launching the National Strategy 'Hand Hygiene for All Roadmap'. Local Government Division, Policy Support Branch, Unicef, and WaterAid collaborated to develop this costed roadmap which will help Bangladesh achieve universal access to hand hygiene by 2030. The Honourable Minister of Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, Mr. Md. Tazul Islam, MP launched the strategy. 

'Hand Hygiene for All Roadmap' aim to embed the practice of hand hygiene. This roadmap identifies the strategic goals and opportunities for investments to improve hand hygiene and guide actions across the three pillars (1) political leadership (2) enabling environment and (3) supply and demand of hand hygiene products and services. 

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A panel discussion on 'How to reach hand hygiene products to the unreached' also took place in the same event. In this discussion, dignitaries from the public, private, and development sectors shared their views and discussed the roles and responsibilities and way forward in achieving universal access to hand hygiene. 

Please enjoy reading the newspaper supplement that has captured the event in Bangla and English