posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09authored byAfroza Ahmed, A.Y. Siddiqi
In response to the MDG and WSSD targets, Government of Bangladesh, having formed an effective partnership with Development
partners including UNICEF, NGO’s and other stake holders, have declared Bangladesh’s target of achieving
total sanitation, whereby, every household in the nation will have facilities of sanitary latrine by 2010. The target will be
fulfilled in three phases by 2005, 2008 and 2010. It is realized that in order to set the sanitation target at the grassroots
level, it is very important to know the present status of sanitary latrines. To design the intervention it is also important
to know the reasons as to why such a vast number of people do not have latrine at all. It was further felt that the elected
leaders of the Local Government institutions (LGI’s) should be involved in all activities towards total sanitation. With this
in mind, under the leadership of Local Government Division of the Ministry of LGRD&C, nationwide baseline survey was
conducted covering all household under the leadership of LGI’s with the assistance of concerned Government departments
with minimum financial involvement and within a few weeks. The successful conduction of the survey induced the confidence
of the local government institutions for managing nation wide events. The baseline survey was also instrumental to
sensitize the grassroots about the sanitation issues.
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Citation
AHMED, A. and SIDDIQI, A.Y., 2004. National baseline survey on sanitation in Bangladesh: an exemplary event of collaborative partnership. IN: Godfrey, S. (ed). People-centred approaches to water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 30th WEDC International Conference, Vientiane, Laos, 25-29 October 2004, pp. 27-33.
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