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A lot of effort is put into getting everyone in the world access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitary services, but is everyone really included? As recent as 2011 the first ever world report on disability has been published by the World Health Organization and the World Bank (2011). It... Read more...
In Bangladesh, BRAC is looking at business models for the use of faecal sludge as organic fertiliser. Read more...
This short video from the BRAC WASH programme highlights their ongoing study in Bangladesh on the use of faecal sludge from double pit latrines as organic fertiliser.
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Women tell how WASH Committees have helped to introduce sanitation in their villages in Bangladesh. This video was produced by the BRAC WASH Programme for World Toilet Day 2013,
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This video highlights the activities and achievements of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh, which started in 2007.
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The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh has brought safe sanitation to millions of families. Now, as pit latrines start to fill up, it is seeking ways to turn the faecal matter into safe fertiliser and energy. Baba Kabir, director of the programme outlines the plan.
Read more...The business case for sanitation in developing countries is testified by the thousands of small scale entrepreneurs springing up to tackle problems of open defecation and process faecal waste and urine. Will these businesses be profitable and sustainable? Read more...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have set up a joint trust fund to expand non-sewered sanitation and septage management solutions across Asia. The Gates Foundation will invest US$ 15 million into the new Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, which... Read more...
The 'Value at the end of the Sanitation Value-chain' (VeSV) project aims to develop and adopt business models for a low cost, safe method for the collection and processing of faecal sludge from pit latrines; a method that can be operated by local entrepreneurs and results in the production of a... Read more...
The Sanitation Technology for Enterprises (SANTE) applied research project aims to identify safe sustainable solutions for sanitation in high water table areas, rocky areas and flood prone areas in Bangladesh. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme has helped establish 80,000 Village WASH Committees, whose members are so engaged they're even going into politics. Read more...
A sanitation project's work is not finished with the installation of a pit latrine. What happens a year or two later, when the latrine is full? Read more...
Reflections by Dr Christine Sijbesma and Mahjabeen Ahmed on the QIS monitoring system. Read more...
BRAC's WASH activities reach more than 30 million people, and the Village WASH Committee (VWC) plays a crucial role. Read more...
Mrs Rasheda Sahab, a 38-year old widow, has become a successful sanitation entrepreneur, thanks to BRAC's microcredit programme. Read more...
A sub-district chairman and a schoolteacher/imam in Chittagong, Bangladesh talk to Dick de Jong about their roles in WASH delivery. Read more...
Faecal sludge from millions of pit latrines around the world is being dumped indiscriminately. What can be done to stop this new sanitation challenge? Read more...