BRAC water, sanitation and hygiene : nine years of scale and innovation in Bangladesh : programme report 2006-2015

By helping over 39 million people gain access to hygienic latrines and 2.3 million people gain access to safe water across 250 sub-districts, the BRAC WASH programme has made an outstanding contribution to continuing efforts to transform the water, sanitation and hygiene situation in rural Bangladesh from 2006 to 2015. BRAC WASH has helped to bring about a social transformation in areas where it works, with significant progress on rural sanitation particularly for the poorest families. Success has been achieved over a nine year period not only in the provision of hygienic household latrines, but in their use by all members of the family, and to a lesser extent in good hygiene practices such as handwashing.

Most of this report focuses on the achievements from WASH I and WASH II areas (i.e. 177 upazilas funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).