A two-day workshop organized by ITN-BUET, in collaboration with the Global Water & Sanitation Center (GWSC) of AIT and Innovative Solution Pvt. Ltd. (ISPL), has strengthened the capacity of sanitation service providers and municipal staff in Dhaka on IMIS-based Scheduled Desludging. The orientation brought together 21 participants, including 15 private sanitation service providers, DWASA treatment plant operators, and DNCC waste management staff, held on 18 and 20 January 2026 at ITN-BUET.

Bangladesh faces a major challenge in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2, which targets 100% safely managed sanitation for all by 2030. Unlike the MDG period, which mainly focused on access to toilets, the SDG framework emphasizes safely managed sanitation services.

In a major step towards advancing safely managed and inclusive sanitation in Bangladesh, the International Training Network Centre of BUET (ITN-BUET) and FINISH Mondial Bangladesh (FMBD) signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) on 7 January 2026

A Planning Workshop on the Implementation of the Capacity Building Component for the 10 Towns Project was jointly organized by ITN-BUET and the Project Management Unit (PMU) of the Inclusive and Integrated Sanitation and Hygiene Project in 10 Priority Towns in Bangladesh, DPHE on 4 January 2026.

The International Water Association (IWA), in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), organized the 2025 IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition from 8–12 December 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand, bringing together over 3,000 water professionals from more than 80 countries.

Marking a major step forward in advancing climate-resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) systems, ITN-BUET and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) on 01 December 2025 to accelerate research, knowledge generation, and capacity building in the sector.

ITN-BUET, in collaboration with the Environmental Health and WASH (E-WASH) unit of the Health Systems and Population Studies Division (HSPSD), icddr,b, organized a stakeholder workshop titled “UCCE Framework: A User-Centered Community Engagement Approach in Research” on 30 November 2025.

30 November 2025, the second session of City-San Connect, hosted by ITN-BUET under the SaniRepo platform, brought together nearly 45 participants from Bangladesh and abroad for a dynamic virtual dialogue on the theme “From Toilet Lost to Toilet Legacy: Building Systems That Last.”

Achieving SDG Target for Sanitation 6.2: 100% Safely Managed Sanitation for All by 2030 for Bangladesh requires 6 to 8 times acceleration to the current pace of yearly achievement for Sanitation.