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An NGO for drinking water supply and sanitation conducted a two-year rural water supply and sanitation project in wide areas of rural Bangladesh. The project provided hand pumps, latrines, and hygiene education to rural people through NGO partners.

TitlePartnership in rural water supply and sanitation : a case study from Bangladesh
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1994
AuthorsHoque, MM, Hoque, BA
Paginationp. 288-293
Date Published1994-01-01
Keywordsbangladesh, caretakers, community participation, evaluation, hand pumps, health education, integrated water and sanitation program through ngo (bangladesh), latrines, non-governmental organizations, partnerships, projects, rural areas, safe water supply, women
Abstract

An NGO for drinking water supply and sanitation conducted a two-year rural water supply and sanitation project in wide areas of rural Bangladesh. The project provided hand pumps, latrines, and hygiene education to rural people through NGO partners. Its performance was evaluated through interviews with women users, women pump caretakers and trainers from partner NGOs. Of 295 health NGOs (partners), 233 NGOs participated in the water supply programme and 153 of them participated in the sanitation programme. This multi-agency collaboration demonstrated the potential for reaching widespread underserved and unserved people in a logically efficient way. About 100,000 people were provided with access to hand pumps. The potential for revolving the financial assistance in sanitary latrine production/promotion was observed. The project, however, lacked the `software' achievements, that is, community participation, personal hygiene practices and effective use and maintenance of water supply and sanitation provisions. This reconfirms the difficulties experienced in this field, even at multi-agency collaboration levels. Sustainable measures for `hardware' as well as `software' activities should be addressed appropriately at multi-agency levels also. (Authors' abstract).

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