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On WaterCouch.tv, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp shares a practical example of international cooperation between BRAC in Bangladesh and the All India Organization of Imams of Mosques, which emerged during the 2013 World Water Day celebrations in The Hague, The Netherlands. Read more...
Short video, produced for World Water Day 2013, showing technologies used in the BRAC WASH II programme to provide safe, arsenic-free water. Read more...
Video highlighting the activities and achievements of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh, which started in 2007. Read more...
Have a question on how BRAC WASH became the world's largest programme of it's kind? Ask the experts during a one hour live twitter chat on 28 February 2013 on 21:00 (GMT+6). Chat with Babar Kabir, Senior Director of BRAC WASH, as well as sanitation expert, Joep Verhagen of IRC. Please use the... Read more...
The Village Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Committee (VWC) is one of the cornerstones of the BRAC WASH programme at community level. 46,000 committees consisting of both men and women have been formed and are supported by the programme. Read more...
Innovative research on the potential of turning the faecal waste from millions of pit latrines in Bangladesh into fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Read more...
This is a photo story about Bilkis Begum a single mother of five who has installed a toilet in her house. She was able to do this with the help of the BRAC WASH programme which gives out subsidies to the hardcore poor for installing a twin pit latrine. Read more...
IRC is happy to announce two research calls in the field of sanitation: Low-cost sanitation technologies for areas with high groundwater tables Faecal sludge secondary treatment options These calls are part of the BRAC WASH II programme in which EUR 1.5 million will be used for innovative research... Read more...
BRAC WASH II is the second phase of the WASH programme. It aims for a sustained change in personal/family hygiene, sanitation and water safety. The programme focuses on sustainably improved household and school sanitation and hygiene practices, and safe drinking water use. The BRAC WASH II... Read more...
This video by BRAC relates the story of one determined teenager and her commitment to helping BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) achieve its goals. Read more...
Management Information Systems (MIS), SenseMaker and the Quality Information System (QIS) keep track of progress across nearly half of Bangladesh. Read more...
Since 2006 IRC supports a large-scale holistic programme that enables the poor in 250 sub-districts of Bangladesh to seize control of their lives Read more...
Dr. Babar Kabir explains that thanks to BRAC's WASH 1 Programme 25 million people have access to improved hygienic latrines. In this programme, which ran for 4,5 years and finished in April 2011, the focus was on hygiene. However, more time is needed to change behaviours, so in the WASH 2 Programme... Read more...
This paper describes the major operational approaches of the BRAC WASH programme including monitoring, evaluation and some results. To carry out this study on water safety practices, use of sanitation facilities and self-reported water-related disease prevalence, a comparison was made between... Read more...
This presentation describes the WASH in Schools activities of the BRAC-WASH program in Bangladesh. Along with financial support from school authorities, BRAC WASH is constructing separate sanitary latrines for girls with menstrual hygiene facilities in secondary schools. It also addresses the... Read more...
A large-scale survey carried out by BRAC’s Research Evaluation Division (RED) amongst 30,000 households found that knowledge of hygiene is very strong among more than 90% of the people, but actual hygiene practices develop far more slowly. Read more...
BRAC has been implementing the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in 150 sub-districts of Bangladesh with a focus of achieving MDG 7; target 10 with support from the Government of the Netherlands since 2006. Read more...
This new 9 minute video shows how BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water, sanitation and hygiene programme in nearly 3,000 schools across rural Bangladesh. The programme includes menstrual hygiene facilties. [Female students] have expressed that something so... Read more...
The BRAC WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) programme aims to reach 37 million people with hygiene education and promotion. A paper describes three community-based aspects of hygiene education: through Imams, schools and folk media. Read more...