Every one dollar invested in WASH yields benefits of an average four dollars, due to its impact across multiple sectors
Safe water, sanitation and hygiene forms a prerequisite for an environment that fosters inclusive growth and human development, and a robust body of evidence highlights the underlying centrality of WASH within the global development agendas.
With the vision to ensure that everyone, everywhere has safe drinking water, a hygienic toilet, and practices good hygiene, we deliver services to people living in hard-to-reach and underserved urban areas, including secondary schools. We follow a multidimensional approach ranging from developing WASH markets to building partnerships with local governments for improving solid and faecal waste management.
IMPACT
2.77 million people accessed safe drinking water through various technologies suiting the geohydrological conditions of their areas
44.20 million people gained access to hygienic latrines
6,320 secondary schools' students and teachers received WASH facilities and hygiene education
BRAC WASH in Bangladesh has succeeded in reaching more than twice as many ultra poor people with sustained use of hygienic sanitation than it had even targeted in ambitious plans. These results are beyond excellent.
WHAT WE DO
Access to safe water facilities
Appropriate technologies for safe water sources and developing water entrepreneurs for areas where natural water sources are contaminated with arsenic, iron or salinity
Access to safely managed sanitation facilities
Motivate households to install twin pit latrines for safe disposal and management of human waste
Waste management in municipal towns
Household waste collection by developing waste entrepreneurs as well as operating a faecal sludge management plant by partnering with Jamalpur municipality
Water quality testing
We run testing facilities at affordable prices for communities to determine the quality of their drinking water
WASH facilities in schools
Secondary schools supported with safe drinking water supply, hand washing stations, gender-specific latrines with menstrual hygiene management facilities
WASH in emergencies
Provide humanitarian assistance for WASH, particularly for the Rohingya refugee camps and during flash floods
Climate resilient WASH
Provide and promote resilient technologies which can withstand the adverse effects attributed to climate change
HOW WE DO IT
WASH in underserved geographical areas
WASH services in hard-to-reach areas.
WASH services in municipal urban areas.
WASH services in municipal urban areas.
Ensure access to sustainable WASH services
WASH financing.
Market system development: Water and sanitation entrepreneurs.
Water quality testing.
Focus on installing facilities that meet the ‘’safely managed and basic’’ criteria under the SDG.
Market system development: Water and sanitation entrepreneurs.
Water quality testing.
Focus on installing facilities that meet the ‘’safely managed and basic’’ criteria under the SDG.
Addressing emerging issues
Waste management in peri-urban towns.
Piloting a faecal sludge management plant.
Climate resilient WASH facilities in vulnerable areas.
Piloting a faecal sludge management plant.
Climate resilient WASH facilities in vulnerable areas.
Integrating WASH into other programmes
Health, Education, Microfinance, Ultra- Poor Graduation programme.
