Lack of access to safe drinking water or improved sanitation services for high proportions of the Bangladeshi population, in particular in the hard-to-reach areas in the Southern districts, remains a key development challenge and major obstacle to reaching the MDGs by 2015. The Hygiene, Sanitation ad Water Fund, set up in 2007 by DANIDA and co-financed since 2010 by AusAid, is registered as a non- profit enterprise overseen by a board under the chairmanship of the Local Governance Division.

Contribute to equitable development and poverty reduction through effective, accountable and inclusive local public service provision

• Direct beneficiaries: 50,000 people benefitting from new or restored safe water points and 250 community centres or schools benefitting from improved sanitation services
• Indirect beneficiaries: The population (800,000 people) of the 50 Upazilas benefitting from improved public management capacities.

Resultate von früheren Phasen:  

• Reaching out, since 2007, to almost 600 Union Parishad (lover level of elected government)
• Improved access to safe drinking water ensured for about 2.4 million disadvantaged people. These improved water points include 34,000 deep hand pumps, more than 200 rural piped-water systems (serving some 16’000 households) and other alternative options.
• About 4 million people have been reached with hygiene messages and 700,000 household latrines can today been labelled hygienic.

Phase 1 01.12.2012 - 31.12.2017   (Completed)