More than 100 participants from Nepal, Bangladesh, and India came together virtually on October 08, 2025, for the Regional Learning and Sharing Meeting on Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS), titled ‘From South Asia to the World: CWIS Learning Forum’.

ITN-BUET has been conducting training for sector actors including DPHE officials since 1997. The journey has recently been fortified with Training Division of DPHE to regularly train DPHE officials as an integral part of training calendar.

The Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) has installed the first-ever Omni Processor (OP) plant in Bangladesh under the Emergency Assistance Project at Rohingya Camp-4, Cox’s Bazar.

The third session of SaniTalk Café, held on 9 September 2025, brought together more than 75 participants representing government agencies, municipalities, NGOs, academia, private sector operators, and international development partners. Representatives from 10 municipalities

On 26 August 2025, the inaugural session of City-San Connect successfully convened over 80 participants from municipalities, government agencies, NGOs, academia, private sector operators, development partners, and international experts.

A regional workshop on the Integrated Municipal Information System (IMIS) was held on 21–22 August 2025 at the Global Water & Sanitation Center (GWSC), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. Three key institutions, GWSC-AIT Thailand, Innovative Solution Pvt. Ltd. (ISPL) Nepal, and ITN-BUET Bangladesh, came together in the workshop to build stakeholder capacity for IMIS adoption.

Recognizing the critical role of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in public health, particularly during emergencies, the Global Sanitation Graduate School Regional Hub for South and Southeast Asia (GSGS RH SSEA), in collaboration with the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, organized the Integrated WASH (I-WASH) Summer Course 2025 on the theme “WASH in Emergency Settings.” The course was held from 12 July to 13 August 2025, combining online lectures with immersive field-based training in Indonesia.

The second session of Sani Talk Café, held on 12 August 2025, brought together over 70 participants from government agencies, municipalities, NGOs, academia, private sector operators, and international development partners, including Practical Action Bangladesh, BASA Foundation, ITN-BUET, DPHE, UNICEF Bangladesh, and SNV.

A four-member delegation from ITN-BUET embarked on a week-long visit to Nepal from 3–8 August 2025, aimed at strengthening regional collaboration in sanitation and hygiene, and fostering peer learning between mentor cities.

ITN-BUET organized a dissemination event on Saturday, 26 July 2025, showcasing its two pioneer research projects to explore the utilization of industrial by-products, such as medical waste incineration ash, sewage sludge ash, and coal fly ash, for compressed stabilized earth blocks (CSEB) and production of sustainable concrete using geopolymer artificial coarse aggregates.