‘WASH Systems for Health’ is a project awarded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) to WaterAid Bangladesh. Through a strategic consortium, WaterAid and SNV, will support government-led initiatives to accelerate progress in their WASH priorities. The project will support to achieve improvements in the WASH systems at national and selected sub-national levels to contribute to increased access and use of sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient WASH services. Through collective actions with government and stakeholders, this will contribute to a progressive reduction in WASH-related diseases, particularly for women, children and infants in the municipalities of Lalmonirhat and Paikgacha of Bangladesh.
Project location:
Lalmonirhat and Khulna
Supported by:
Implementing partners:
Strategic partners:
Navigating the Challenges:
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in advancing access to water, sanitation and hygiene services. However, with the ever-evolving impacts of climate change, the water crisis has become more prominent, particularly for the marginalised communities. Therefore, Bangladesh is now facing a significant challenge to improve practices and provide context specific WASH services, to ultimately realise health and wellbeing for low-income communities. Moreover, systemic barriers at the local government level including resource and capacity gaps, lack of institutional arrangements and the absence of effective, sustainable, context-specific service delivery models exacerbate the challenge even further.
National inception of ‘WASH Systems for Health’ project
"WASH Systems for Health" inception event on 26 October 2024, at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka. This event convened prominent representatives from Bangladesh’s health and sanitation sectors, marking a unified effort to address critical WASH challenegs.
Image: a. Dr Md Khairul Islam; b. Mr Rashid Zaman; c. Dr Md Zainal Abedin Tito
Image: a. Mr Md Mahbubur Rahman; b. Ms Hasin Jahan
Consultation workshop with Lalmonirhat municipality
Consultation workshop, led by Lalmonirhat Municipality was organised on June 1-2, 2024, at the Lalmonirhat Municipality Office to bring together all the stakeholders working in Lalmonirhat Municipality. Participants included officials from DPHE, SNV, SKS Foundation,
Project objective:
Progressive reduction in the number of preventable deaths of poor mothers, children, and infants due to WASH related disease in target areas of Bangladesh.
Project targets:
- Create viable business models opportunities for the informal sanitation workers and private Sectors.
- Strengthen systems for sustainable inclusive WASH service delivery.
- Document, replicate and scale best practices from programme by utilising the existing platforms (CWIS-FSM cell & MAB).