• The people affected by water scarcity and limited access to water resources, i.e. 280’000 direct and about 815’000 indirect beneficiaries in 39 unions and 3 urban municipalities in the Naogaon, Chapai Nawabganj and Rajshahi districts
• 70% of the beneficiaries will be disadvantaged, i.e. poor and living in hard-to-reach communities, at least 50% will be women.
• Local Government Institutions of partnering unions, municipalities and upazilas
• The Ministry of Water Resources and Local Government division of the government and other agencies

Outcome 1: Citizens and LGIs, in coordination with other stakeholders in the region, effectively ensure availability of water through participatory IWRM processes

Outcome 2: Functional decentralised integrated water resource management committees address regional water resource issues

Outcome 3: Policy framework supports information flow and participatory water resource  planning 

Risultati principali attesi:  

Outcome 1:

Output 1.1  Citizens, particularly disadvantaged, engage with LGIs in integrated water resource management process to fulfill their right to water

Output 1.2 LGIs ensure sufficient water supply to underserved population

Output 1.3. Citizens and LGIs co-finance integrated water resource management interventions

Outcome 2:

Output 2.1. LGIs apply BWA Rules and Guidelines

Output 2.2. Decentralized committees implement IWRM measures to reduce water stress in the region.

Outcome 3:

Output 3.1. Improved information flow following adoption of expert group directives

Output 3.2. Barind Participatory Water Management Plan formulated

Output 3.3 Water information directive widely disseminated among state and non-state actors

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

Despite an erosion of the enabling environment for improved downward accountability in local governance throughout Bangladesh, the project developed a range of instruments that strengthen the integrated management of water resources in the Barind. This includes:

• The project directly benefited 200’596 people through various integrated water resource management interventions of which 101’089 were female and 99’507 were male. Indirectly, these interventions benefitted 604’360 people with 328’903 being male while 275’457 were female.
• 994 water resource management committees identified actions to reduce, re-use & recycle water resources and submitted plans that were included in the Annual Development Plans of their respective local government and deliberated in open budget meetings with citizens.
• Local government institutions responded to the demand of citizens by the excavation of 109 ponds and 4.85 km of earthen canals; the installation of drinking (28 km) and irrigation (8.2 km) pipelines; the provision of 5 dams and 3 check dams; upgrading 2 km of irrigation canals; the provision of 73 managed aquifer recharge systems and 94 rain water harvesting systems; the support for solar powered drip irrigation systems and the installation of 48 monitoring wells
• 16% of the total investment costs were raised as contribution from the Union Parishads (100’376 CHF) and beneficiaries (197’954 CHF).
• Approximately 12’000 people (comprising 37% disadvantaged, 22% ethnic minority and 15% extreme poor) directly engaged with integrated water resource management initiatives and its mainstreaming with Local Government Institutions.
• Preparation of the Bangladesh Water Rules (2018) including inter-ministerial approval to issue the Bangladesh Water Rules
• Incorporation of civil society and local government experiences in the Union Water Guidelines (2018) and consultation surrounding the Bangladesh Water Rules.
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Fase 2 01.07.2018 - 31.12.2023   (Completed)