Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) – Governance and Regulation

Training Date: 05 November 2023, Dhaka

TRAINER

Dr. Marcela López

Marcela leads the Capacity Building and Knowledge Management programmes at WIN. She is geographer with an interdisciplinary background in urban and environmental studies. She has been working at the interface between corporatisation, water governance and infrastructures. Marcela also works as a Senior Lecturer at the international Urban Management master’s course at the Technical University Berlin and New York University, Berlin.

Dr. Tanvir Ahmed

Dr. Tanvir Ahmed, Professor of Department of Civil Engineering, BUET and Director, ITN-BUET is leading the Capacity Building programmes in South Asia on Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) and Sanitation Innovations hosting at ITN-BUET centre in Bangladesh. He is a Civil & Environmental Engineer by training. Dr. Ahmed received his Bachelors and Masters degree in Civil Engineering from BUET and PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. His primary research interest broadly encompasses waste management and recycling, risk assessment, citywide inclusive sanitation planning and environmental pollution.

PURPOSE

This event is part a series of trainings organized by WIN to co-develop an online course together with partners in Zambia and Bangladesh.  This training will bring together CWIS, governance and regulation, three fields that have remained largely disconnected in the urban sanitation sector. The focus of this training is to gain understandings of how poor transparency, accountability and participation play out in the sanitation value chain and what good governance can do to improve the implementation of CWIS projects. This training expects to equip sanitation sector organizations in Bangladesh with practical tools to strengthen good governance in CWIS projects, and to foster south-south knowledge sharing.

Learning objectives

• Understand the basic concepts CWIS and governance
• Examine how these concepts play in practice by mobilizing concrete case studies along the CWIS value change
• Identify sanitation challenges and opportunities in Bangladesh, with a particular focus on CWIS
• Examine how accountability, transparency, participation and anti-corruption (TAPA framework) can strength opportunities for more inclusive and equitable sanitation services

AGENDA

Sunday, November 05, 2023

9:00-10:00       Registration

10:00-10:15     Welcome and introduction

Key Concepts

10:15-11:30      Introduction to sanitation governance and regulation

11:30 – 12:00   Tea Break

12:00- 13:00    Introduction to Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) in Bangladesh

13:00 – 14:00   Lunch Break  

Mapping CWIS (group work)

14:00 – 14:40   Identifying main actors in the sanitation sector

14:40 – 15:20    Identifying challenges to provide affordable, safe and sustainable sanitation services

15:20 – 15:50   Improving sanitation

15:50 – 16:00   Q/A and wrap-up