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of Sustainability

Dr Md Khairul IslamCountry Director, WaterAid in Bangladesh

www.wateraid.org/bangladesh

WaSH challenges in the cities


•About 16 million people in the slums of Bangladesh do not have regular access

•This number is growing with rapid urbanisation, economic opportunities and climate change.

challenges•Insufficient programs to deal with this

problem•Government programs – inadequate and

lack focus

response

•Sufficient funds unavailable •Magnitude of the problem and

underlying issues - less understood

impediments

WaterAid’s programmatic response


Accessing public resources

Winning trust of the utility agencies

Pro-poor change in agencies’ by-laws

Community Based Organisation to take a leading role

Formation of CBOs Empowerment of CBOs

Achievements during 2010-11


Community based organisation• 147 CBOs formed in two major cities

through AusAID funding

Beneficiaries• 351,131 urban poor people are

benefitted

Further Challenges


•High opportunity cost•Unaffordable volunteerism for long

period

CBO leadership

•Decreasing trust on CBOs•Reliance on NGOs•Further scale-up challenged

Utility agencies

•Component sharing •Low presence of NGO after phase

out of Donor’s fund Alternatives in

WaterAid’s programme

Potential solutions


•Adjustment in pricing and billing system

•Bill collection mechanism to reach poor

Utility agency

•Continued emphasis on peoples’ organization and empowerment

•Advocacy for pro-poor response by Utility, bilateral agencies and lending institutions

NGO

•Increase subsidy for preventive measures (subsidy for water)

•View this from Rights and Equity perspective

Government

Thank you!


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