Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE)

SEMP Component 3.1
Community Based Water Supply and Sanitation Project (CWSSP)

Sub Implementing Agency: Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE)

Background:

Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), a national agency under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (MLGRD&C), is entrusted to provide safe water supply, environmental sanitation and hygiene education as mandated throughout the country except three cities namely Dhaka, Narayanganj and Chittagong. DPHE is the focal point for initiating national policy frame work and development plans in water supply and sanitation sector of the country under the guidance of the MLGRD&C and Planning Commission of the Govt. of Bangladesh. DPHE is responsible for planning, designing, implementing and monitoring water supply and sanitation projects in both rural and urban areas of the country. It delivers hardwares in close participation of the local government institutions e.g. Union Parishad, Municipality etc. and training for maintenance of water supply and sanitation facilities. The DPHE has a network of offices upto Upazila level all over the country.

It has multidisciplinary professionals like sanitary engineers, hydrogeologists, chemists, hygiene educators and so on.

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Objectives:

Development

Development of a model of Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Programme.

Immediate

Introduction of a demand-responsive planning process of WSS service provisions,

Enhancement of community participation in the implementation process of WSS service provision,

Development of a mechanism of community management of WSS services

Development of a methodology of adaptive project design, and

Mainstreaming the achievements to macro-level WSS interventions.

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Project Area / Target Audience:

The action research project focuses on WSS in unserved and underserved areas. These are

Coastal Saline Area (CSA)

Low Water Table Areas (LWTA) and

Shallow Water Table Areas (SWTA)

Based on secondary information and field visits to the potential Upazilas, the following Upazilas have been taken up for the project work.

Districts	Project Area
	1st Phase		2nd phase
	Union	Population *	Entire Upazila	Population*
Khulna Bhola Mymensingh Rangpur Habigonj	Chalna Shambhupur Mallikbari Gangachara Shahjahanpur	29433 37618 33823 33779 29562	Dacope Tazumuddin Bhaluka Gangachara Madhabpur	161458 134281 304594 277465 287444
Total		164215		1165242

* DPHE Year Book 1998-99

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Activities:

Set up Project Implementation Office
Select Project Areas
Sensitize stakeholders for social mobilization
Conduct baseline survey
Engage NGOs for motivational work leading to generation of 'demand'
Form groups
Develop capacity of private sector
Develop and promote appropriate technology
Develop training packages
Develop and reproduce IEC materials
Activate Union Parishad/Union WatSan Committee
Recover Partial Cost
Deliver Hardware
Develop capacity of community for management of O&M
Document lessons learnt
Mainstream lessons learnt.

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Scope of the Component :

Generation of demand with willingness to pay for the WSS service provisions

Improvement of the capacity of the community

Development of training packages for training of stakeholders

Development and promotion of appropriate technology in WSS

Introduction of GIS in DPHE

Improvement of capacity of private sector

Installation of WSS options

Documentation of lessons learnt

Mainstreaming lessons learnt

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Activities:

Select Project Areas

Produce IEC materials

Sensitize stakeholders for social mobilization

Activate Union Parishad/Union WatSan Committee

Conduct baseline survey

Engage NGOs for motivational work leading to generation of 'demand'

Form groups

Develop capacity of private sector

Develop and promote appropriate technology

Develop training packages

Develop GIS in DPHE

Develop and reproduce IEC materials

Recover Partial Cost

Deliver Hardware

Develop capacity of community for management of O&M

Monitor outputs and processes

Document lessons learnt

Mainstream lessons learnt

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Achievements:

Water Availability and Usage Regime in Rural Bangladesh (pdf)
Study has been undertaken by under a grant from SEMP (Project BGD/96/007) through Community Based Water Supply and Sanitation Project (CWSSP).
Following some specific criteria, the selection of 5 project sites was completed

Union WatSan Committees have been reformed and sensitized

For social mobilization Ansar-VDP members, Freedom Fighters, Private Sector, School teachers, Youth groups, Health Workers, Union WatSan Committee members and Upazila level Officers were briefed in 41 batches. A total of 1347 participants - 1137 male and 210 female, attended the courses.

Baseline survey has been completed

NGOs through motivation are forming groups

For training package development, MoU between CWSSP and ITN-BUET has been signed. Detailing of the work is in progress.

For development of appropriate technology MoU between CWSSP and ITN-BUET has been signed. Detailing of the work is in progress.
3 posters, 2 brochures, 5 stickers, 1 handbill, 1 report and 1 booklet have been developed and reproduced for dissemination.

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Contact Info:

Contact Person:	Mr. Md. Mustafizur Rahman Executive Engineer
Address:	Superintending Engineer, DPHE, DPHE Bhaban 14, Shaheed Captain Mansoor Ali Sharni, Kakrail, Dhaka -1000
Email:	[email protected]
Phone:	880-2-9343360,9341587
Fax:	880-2-9553367, 8311193
Web:

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