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Part-time job or Volunteerism? Dilemma
of Sustainability
Dr Md Khairul IslamCountry Director, WaterAid in Bangladesh
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WaSH challenges in the cities
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•About 16 million people in the slums of Bangladesh do not have regular access
•This number is growing with rapid urbanisation, economic opportunities and climate change.
challenges•Insufficient programs to deal with this
problem•Government programs – inadequate and
lack focus
response
•Sufficient funds unavailable •Magnitude of the problem and
underlying issues - less understood
impediments
WaterAid’s programmatic response
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Accessing public resources
Winning trust of the utility agencies
Pro-poor change in agencies’ by-laws
Community Based Organisation to take a leading role
Formation of CBOs Empowerment of CBOs
Achievements during 2010-11
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Community based organisation• 147 CBOs formed in two major cities
through AusAID funding
Beneficiaries• 351,131 urban poor people are
benefitted
Further Challenges
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•High opportunity cost•Unaffordable volunteerism for long
period
CBO leadership
•Decreasing trust on CBOs•Reliance on NGOs•Further scale-up challenged
Utility agencies
•Component sharing •Low presence of NGO after phase
out of Donor’s fund Alternatives in
WaterAid’s programme
Potential solutions
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•Adjustment in pricing and billing system
•Bill collection mechanism to reach poor
Utility agency
•Continued emphasis on peoples’ organization and empowerment
•Advocacy for pro-poor response by Utility, bilateral agencies and lending institutions
NGO
•Increase subsidy for preventive measures (subsidy for water)
•View this from Rights and Equity perspective
Government
Thank you!
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