Sustainable Solutions for the Delivery of Safe Drinking Water

Project completed

Since 1999, the project Sustainable Solutions for the Delivery of Safe Drinking Water has been combining social mobilisation and small WatSan infrastructure to improve poor people’s access to water and sanitation and strengthening their voice in interaction with local authorities. While the main project was completed by the end of the 4th project phase, the aim of this short final phase is to consolidate the intervention in an additional geographic area, which was included in the project as a result of the “0.5% bill” in 2011.

Country/region Topic Period Budget
Bangladesh
Water
Governance
Rule of Law - Democracy - Human rights
Drinking water and basic sanitation (WASH) (til 2016)
Decentralisation
01.01.2013 - 31.03.2016
CHF 2'550'000
Background

To achieve the MDG 7 targets by 2015 in Bangladesh would mean to provide access to safe water to an estimated additional 25 million people in rural areas and access to improved sanitation facilities to some 80 million people, while maintaining the current access and constant quality of water for a much larger population.

Objectives

The overall goal of the project is to contribute to equitable and sustainable access to jointly managed water and sanitation services through improved local governance

Target groups

 

  • 700,000 poor, disadvantaged men and women in the Sunamgonj district in Bangladesh
  • Local Government (25 Union Parishads, 4 Upazila Parishads)
  • National Government (LGD, NILG, DPHE)
  • Private Sectors Organizations
  • National Think tanks and networks (e. g HLP)
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    Medium-term outcomes

    The purposes of this phase are:

    • to support local governments and communities to improve water resources as well as sanitary and hygiene management while institutionalizing improved local governance processes and taking into account the different realities of women, men and very poor households.
    • to promote knowledge transfer, replication of best practices and ensure stepwise handing over management tasks to local partners (community and local government).

    Results

    Results from previous phases:  

    Since the launching of the project in 1998, SDSD has covered 17 unions of Rajshahi and Chapai Nawabganj districts and has installed or repaired over 12’000 water points in 448 villages, which cover the needs of over 100’000 households (of which 49% are women-headed and poor households) or 450’000 persons. In the Sunamganj region (since November 2011), SDSD installed 325 new water points and more than 13’000 sanitary latrines in 25 UPs covering the needs of approximately 50’000 people.


    Directorate/federal office responsible SDC
    Credit area Development cooperation
    Project partners Contract partner
    International or foreign NGO
    • Development Association for Self Reliance, Communication and Health (DASCOH)


    Budget Current phase Swiss budget CHF   2'550'000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF   2'490'391
    Project phases

    Phase 5 01.01.2013 - 31.03.2016   (Completed)

    Phase 4 01.01.2009 - 31.12.2012   (Completed)