1. Bipin Poudel
Kamal Adhikari
Rabin Bastola
31 January 2012, Bangladesh,
Sanitation And Hygiene Practitioners Workshop

2. Background
National Goal : 100% coverage by 2017
MDG : 53% coverage by 2015
Present Status (NMIP 2010):
 Water Supply – 80%
 Sanitation 43.04%
 Rural – 37%, Urban – 80%,
 50% districts below the national average
 Diarrheal outbreak still persistent in some
communities
 260 VDCs, 5 Municipalities and 2 districts declared
ODF

3. Rationale of the Master Plan
 Synergize and unify stakeholders' efforts
 Generate and maximize local resources
 Reach the roots of the grass-roots (unreached)
 Provide strategic guidance to achieve national
goal and MDG targets
 Mainstream sanitation into national
development agenda
 Strengthen institutional arrangements through
decentralized approach
 Run sanitation in the form of a social movement
and expand coverage

4. Milestones
 Milestone 1: 60% toilet coverage by 2012/13
 Milestone 2: 80% toilet coverage by 2014/15
 Milestone 3: 100% toilet coverage by 2016/17
With Due focus on :
• Sustainable changes on hygiene behaviors
• Proper use of toilet and waste management
practices in rural and urban areas

5. Strategies
 Decentralized planning, implementation and
monitoring
 Promotion of demand driven sanitation and hygiene
programs
 Inter and intra sectoral collaboration
 Cost sharing and resource pulling arrangements at
community level
 Reward and recognition
 Uniformity and harmonization
 Wider advocacy and knowledge management

6. Guiding Principles
1. ODF as the bottom line
2. Universal access to toilet in water supply project
3. Informed technological choices
4. Leadership of local government bodies
5. VDC/Municipality as a basic unit of planning
6. Locally managed financial support mechanisms
7. User’s friendly sanitation facilities in institutions
8. Mandatory provision of toilets in new built up
9. Hand washing with soap and behaviour built up

7. Decentralized Multi Stakeholders’ Platform
National Sanitation and Hygiene Steering Committee
(NPC, MPPW, MoLD, MoHP, MoE, MoF, MoE, MCWSW)
National Sanitation and Hygiene Coordination Committee
(Represented by several agencies)
R-WASH-CC
D-WASH-CC
V-WASH-CC/M-WASH-CC
Municipal/VDC/community/school level activities

8. Approved : 4 August 2011 and Public: 29 Sept 2011

9. Challenges
 Timely strengthening of decentralized institutional
arrangements in different level at equal par
 Lack of adequate technical personnel, resources and
inadequate institutionalization
 No elected representatives (last election on 1997 and
term expired on 2002) in local bodies

10. Opportunities
 Resource mobilization by local bodies (block grant
operational guidelines)
 Increasing political commitments
 ODF status as a prestige issue
 Wider engagement of media, civil society, schools and
communities
 Sanitation as a cross-cutting theme
 Formulation of district level strategic plan (unified
plan) in more than 35 districts