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Jhenaidah is a fast-growing city, which is 174 km away from the Dhaka city. It is beside the Naboganga River and it is well connected with road and water. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared municipality in 1958. Jhenaidah is one of the 53 district level municipality in the country. According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics …
This factsheet gives an overview of the Water Supply and Sanitation for Refugees and Host Communities (WatSSUP) Programme, implemented by GIZ, which is funded by the German Government through the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
In this resource you can find context of the project and synthesised results like Strengthening of Institutions, Capacity Development …
Unhygienic environments place children at risk of death. Some 1.5 million deaths of under-fives a year are caused by diarrhoea, deaths which can be avoided if diarrhoea in this age group is prevented or appropriately treated. Diarrhoea also stunts children’s physical and intellectual growth and is a huge cost factor. Overall, 2.2 million people died because of diarrhoea in 2002. Hygiene …
Access to sanitation – the hygienic disposal of human excreta – has been largely achieved through the private sector supplying individual households. Evidence from what works indicates that development of the market is the only sustainable approach to meeting the need for sanitation in the developing world. This field note explains the marketing approach and suggests that it should be …
Mithila Bihari is located in the Dhanusha district of Nepal (Madhesh Province). The municipality covers an area of about 27 kilometres and is situated at an altitude of 87 metres above sea level. The municipality was restructured in 2017 by merging six Village Development Committees (VDCs), which are Bhuthahi Partewa, Mithileshwar Nikas, Andupatti, Tarapatti, Sirsiya, Mithileshwar Mouwahi, Thera …
Parsagadhi Municipality was established in 2016. The municipality is located in Parsa District, Madhesh Province. The municipality is divided into nine political wards.he municipality has a total population of 41,569 with 21,011 males and 20,558 females (Census 2021, n.d.). Out of total wards, ward number 3 has the largest population (7,221) while ward number 9 has the least number of populations …
In December 2017, the European Union Catalytic Support to Peace Building (EU-CSPB) Programme supported the rollout of a peacebuilding plan led by the Government of Sri Lanka and other partners. This programme supported a managed aquifer recharge (MAR) strategy in Jaffna to encourage the resettlement of communities after years of internal conflict.
To pilot a MAR feasibility study in Jaffna, …
Phidim Municipality was declared as municipality on 18th May 2014. It is in Panchthar District, Koshi Province in the eastern Nepal. It is divided into 14 political wards. The municipality has a total population of 48,495 with 23,679 males and 24,816 females (Census 2021, n.d.). Out of total wards, ward number 1 has the largest population (8,944) while ward number 9 has the least population with …
The water, sanitation, and solid waste sectors are closely related and have many interactions between their respective service chains in low- and middle-income countries. Currently, these interactions mostly lead to cross-contamination, and opportunities for co-benefits are seldom realized. This review presents the key advancements within each of these three development sectors in the past two …
Chhattisgarh is a state in central India. Water contamination has always been a matter of grave concern in numerous areas of Chhattisgarh. Groundwater here faces contamination with fluoride, iron, turbidity, arsenic, nitrate, etc. Monitoring groundwater quality is essential through representative sampling in different hydrological units. The chemical water quality is monitored by Central Ground …
Several software applications incorporate recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) to improve information gathering about water points. Among these applications, FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch) is not able because it was developed specifically for water point mapping. With FLOW, enumerators use android phones to enter data about each water point, and take its picture …
Cyclone Fani hit Odisha on 3 May 2019. The UNICEF WASH team witnessed that the wind speeds were unprecedented and highly destructive, devastating 14 districts. It was found that among the most affected were villages in Puri district. To address this massive emergency, the WASH team at UNICEF Odisha, immediately started working with other organizations to support the government in effectively …
Sreepur Municipality is located in the Sreepur Upazila of Gazipur District under Dhaka Division. It is approximately 25 kilometres from the District town and in the southeastern portion of the Gazipur District. The geographical coordinates of Sreepur are between 24°10' and 24°14’ N and 90°23' and 90°29'" E . It is bordered on the north by the upazilas of Bhaluka and Gaffargaon, on the …
The purpose of Including Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action is to strengthen the inclusion of children and women with disabilities, and their families, in emergency preparedness, response and early recovery, and recovery and reconstruction. This series of booklets provides insight into the situation of children with disabilities in humanitarian contexts, highlights the ways in …
The right to water and sanitation entitles everyone to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic use. In 2010, the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognized clean drinking water and safe sanitation to be human rights, essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights. Additionally, …
What is trust? Why is it important in emergency-response teams? Humanitarian practitioners identify trust as one of the most important factors in launching timely and effective emergency responses.
Building Trust in Diverse Teams can be used throughout the cycle of an emergency response and features a Trust Index, to assess and measure trust within diverse teams, and ten trust-building tools …
The objective of this compilation is to strengthen the capacity of organisations to design and deliver effective hygiene promotion programs leading to the improved health of communities.
This compilation of three keynote papers and 31 case studies searches for answers to the question: What makes hygiene promotion work? The case studies are written by authors from a wide variety of organisations …
As the Swachh Bharat Mission ventures into the second phase of its implementation - moving from ODF to ODF Plus – the Ministry of Jal Shakti released a programme inception film that shows how India will transition its efforts sustain the gains of the first phase and achieve a clean living environment through faecal and plastic waste management. The film has been jointly produced by the WASH and …
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