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Highlights of BRAC's WASH Programme in 2012 Annual Report

BRAC's 2012 Annual Report includes highlights from the "largest NGO-led [WASH] project of its kind in the world". These include increased coverage, the introduction of innovative monitoring tools, action research on low-cost sanitation and the use of faecal waste as organic fertiliser.

Published on: 25/06/2013

Photo: BRACI
Photo: BRAC
 
In 2012 the BRAC WASH Programme "expanded to a total of 98 new sub-districts, installing 184 deep tube wells within the proximity of communities in arsenic contaminated regions and ensured maintenance of water systems installed in the first phase". BRAC provided "subsidies to more than 60,000 ultra poor households and loans to 12,000 poor households for purchasing and installing sanitary latrines". Hygiene education was delivered to over two and a half million people.

Innovative impact assessment tools have been introduced. The WASH Programme started the second pilot run of a Qualitative Information System (QIS) in 72 sub-districts of Bangladesh. In December 2012, it tested the usability of Sensemaker, another tool to record and evaluate qualitative achievements.

Other highlights that get a mention are action research on sanitation technologies for areas with a high-water table, sanitation supply-chains and low-cost water treatment technologies; and a  programme that explores the use and effectiveness of faecal waste as organic fertiliser.

Besides these highlights, the section on the BRAC WASH Programme presents a short case study on how arsenic and salinity problems were dealt with in the Aruakandi union of Mollarhat in Bagerhat district. The section concludes with a visualisation of the programme's sanitation, hygiene education and safe water coverage.

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