Hygiene, Sanitation and Water Fund
About 20 percent of Bangladesh’s population has no access to safe drinking water; some 40 percent are deprived of improved sanitation facilities. The Hygiene, Sanitation and Water Fund, set up in 2007 by the leading international development agencies, partners with competent local government institutions to provide efficient and state-of-the-art WatSan solutions for millions of Bangladeshi households. The present proposal undertakes to co-finance the successful Fund for the period of 2012 through 2015.
| Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Bangladesh |
Water Governance Health
Drinking water and basic sanitation (WASH) (til 2016)
Decentralisation Health systems strengthening |
01.12.2012
- 31.12.2017 |
CHF 10’510’000
|
- 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.
- Local governments’ capacities for citizen-oriented public service delivery - in particular water supply, sanitation and hygiene related ones - are strengthened
- Less people in hard-to-reach areas are deprived of safe water supply and basic sanitation services and more people exhibit improved hygiene behaviour
- Informed policy makers, government officials and other Union Parishads use project lessons for improved policy framework and implementation
- 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.
- HYSAWA Fund
-
Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION
GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
HEALTH
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation Basic drinking water supply and basic sanitation
Decentralisation and support to subnational government (incl. accountability)
Health policy and administrative management
Cross-cutting topics The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme.
The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes.
The project also supports partner organisation improvements
Type of support Official development assistance (ODA)
Type of collaboration Bilateral cooperation
Finance type Aid grant
Aid Type Project and programme contribution
Tied/untied aid Untied aid
Project number 7F08444
| Background |
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. |
| Objectives |
Contribute to equitable development and poverty reduction through effective, accountable and inclusive local public service provision |
| Target groups |
|
| Medium-term outcomes |
|
| Results |
Results from previous phases:
|
| Directorate/federal office responsible |
SDC |
| Credit area |
Development cooperation |
| Project partners |
Contract partner International or foreign NGO |
| Budget | Current phase Swiss budget CHF 10’510’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 10’309’903 |
| Project phases |
Phase 2
11.03.2018
- 31.10.2021
(Completed)
Phase 1 01.12.2012 - 31.12.2017 (Completed) |
