Technical Assistance (TA) Project for Establishment of International Training Network (ITN) Centre for Water Supply and Waste Management at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Period: January 1997 - June 2002
Client(s):
DANIDA
, The World Bank
The objective of the program was to develop an improved human resource base for the promotion and wider application of appropriate, affordable, and sustainable low-cost water supply and sanitation for low-income groups. The program also intended to strengthen the local capacity for training, information dissemination, and applied research & demonstration activities.
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- The ITN Centre at BUET and Sub-centers at 8 leading technical institutions within the country were established.
- The Civil Engineering course curricula for Undergraduate and Diploma in the country were reoriented and updated, which is in practice now.
- A text book for the Civil Engineering Undergraduate course was published, which is taught in all public and private universities in the country, WEDC in the UK and some developing countries.
- A total of 2352 professionals and decision makers were trained on WSS
- ITN Centre, BUET has successfully flourished as a capacity building and resource center in the WSS sector
This textbook has been developed with proper balance of ‘software’ i.e., socio-cultural and economic aspects and ‘hardware’ i.e., technical as
Author(s)/Editor(s): M. Feroze Ahmed, Mujibur Rahman
Third Edition: June, 2007
A field kit was developed which used non-toxic Silver Nitrate soaked papers as indicator. Adsorption capacities of arsenic by different materials were
Author(s)/Editor(s): Abul Khair
First Edition: June, 2003
- Training module on Community Participation and Management of Water Supply & Sanitation