Sanitation

ITN-BUET developed a comprehensive National Compendium of WASH technologies for disaster response in Bangladesh, detailing technical specifications, drawings, costs, and emergency suitability to enhance disaster preparedness and response efforts.

ADB assigned ITN-BUET to enhance sanitation and waste workers’ capacity in Asia-Pacific through training programs, focusing on occupational health, safety, and hygiene practices to improve service delivery and worker dignity. Specific objectives include building skills, raising awareness on infection control, and fostering dignified participation in sanitation services.

UNICEF engaged ITN-BUET to develop a national compendium of WASH technologies for emergencies in Bangladesh to address critical needs during disaster response.

WaterAid Bangladesh supports Sakhipur Municipality in implementing a fecal sludge management system, with ITN-BUET developing a Sanitation Safety Plan to mitigate health risks and guide sanitation improvements.

ITN-BUET, supported by UNICEF, is providing technical assistance to formulate the National Operation and Maintenance Strategy/Guideline for WASH infrastructures in Bangladesh.

ITN-BUET, funded by WSUP, assessed the capacity of Rangpur, Chattogram, and Dhaka North City Corporations to provide sanitation/FSM services using the Burke-Litwin Model, conducting KIIs and FGDs with City Corporation leaders and officials.

DPHE recruited a number of class-1 officers and they were working all over the country, especially at the field level. They had no special training to combat the challenges of […]

Many organizations including GO, NGO and donor organizations have been working in the water and sanitation sector in Bangladesh for a long time and many of them have identified, developed […]

While implementing WASH water supply technologies in different Char areas of Bangladesh, Concern Worldwide found arsenic levels greater than 50 ppb in many of their intervention tubewells. The project is […]

People living in slums are often unaware of the ill effects of unsafe water, unhygienic latrines, and improper disposal of solid wastes and consequently suffer from diseases and burdens of […]