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Experience of a hygiene project in Bangladesh: institutional learning
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11 authored by Md. Rashidul Huque, Md. Shariful AlamThis paper, from practitioners’ point of view, draws some institutional lessons based on implementation experiences on a
hygiene project- “Environmental Sanitation, Hygiene and Water Supply in Rural Areas” that aims at improving environmental
sanitation and personal hygiene behavior at both households and community levels. Having analyzed the dynamics,
strategies, implementation mechanism and institutional framework of the project it reveals that Department of Public
Health Engineering (DPHE) being a government department has transformed itself as facilitator from its traditional role
of implementer. It is worth mentioning that DPHE has been allocating government resources based on community action
plans that have incorporated community needs and priorities regarding sanitation and hygiene. The success of the
project lies in the fact that local government institutions have become interested to shoulder the responsibilities to bring
positive changes towards environmental sanitation. This success is attributed to institutional framework that is worth to
be replicated elsewhere.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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HUQUE, M.R. and ALAM, M.S., 2005. Experience of a hygiene project in Bangladesh: institutional learning. IN: Kayaga, S. (ed). Maximising the benefits from water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 31st WEDC International Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 31 October-4 November 2005, pp. 161-164.Publisher
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This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:9869Language
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