On 12th January 2023, ITN-BUET and CWIS-FSM Support Cell (CFSC) of DPHE facilitated a technical session hosted by WaterAid Bangladesh (WAB) on ‘Orientation on CWIS’ for the participants from Chattogram Region of MAB.

On 11 January 2023, an ITN-BUET representative facilitated a technical session on ‘sharing roles and responsibilities for Gender, Equity and Social Inclusion Unit’ targeting the Unit’s members and other general members of MAB.

ITN-BUET and WaterAid Bangladesh jointly organized an international training and exposure visit on ‘Urban Rainwater Harvesting System’ during December 11- 14, 2022, at ITN Seminar Room, BUET, Dhaka, to sensitize and capacitate practitioners, planners, academicians, industrialists, students, researchers, and policymakers on RWHS.

ITN-BUET signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Global Water and Sanitation Centre (GWSC) at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on 30 November 2022. The signing event took place during the launching ceremony of the Global Water & Sanitation Center (GWSC), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

City officials from ten cities affirmed to mentor other cities for safely managed sanitation in the country in a workshop organized by ITN-BUET. The workshop was held on 27 November 2022 at the ITN-BUET with the participation of city representatives and CWIS partners. The objective of the workshop was to motivate the ten cities to become CWIS mentors.

An eighteen-members delegation team from Bangladesh visited three cities of the Telangana state of India during November 14-16, 2022 to learn from the best practices in implementing City Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS). The delegation team comprised of 14 Pourashava Mayors and 4 representatives from UCLG-ASPAC, MAB and ITN-BUET.

Mayors from 17 cities recognized CWIS as a key to address sanitation challenges in an event held in ITN-BUET. Scaling City- Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) is a primary agenda of government of Bangladesh to achieve safely managed sanitation services in cities. In the process of capacity development in CWIS and FSM, ITN-BUET is orienting different target groups including the Mayors from different cities of Bangladesh jointly with CFSC, DPHE, Municipal Association of Bangladesh (MAB), sector and development partners.

ITN-BUET won the ‘Sanitation Workers Research Award’ in the Water and Health Conference 2022, held during October 24-28, 2022 organized by the Water Institute of University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. The award recognizes studies that show excellence, relevance, and impact in sanitation worker-related research and is announced at the UNC Water and Health Conference every year.

During October 16-18, 2022, ITN-BUET, Practical Action and NGO Forum for Public Health, in association with and CWIS-FSM Support Cell (CFSC), DPHE organized a three-day long specialized training course on CWIS for the participants from Mymensingh City Corporation and four Paurashavas (Barguna, Satkhira, Kalapara and Kalaroa Paurashavas).

A knowledge-sharing session with students on water and sanitation-related challenges in Bangladesh was arranged at ITN-BUET on 24th September 2022. The program was organized by ITN-BUET, in association with House of Volunteers Foundation Bangladesh and supported by UNICEF.