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Sanitation Coverage Progress Map as on: |
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The Government of Bangladesh has set the national goal of achieving 100 % Sanitation for all by 2010 under the paradigm and principles adopted in the Dhaka Declaration in South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN) in October 2003. The paradigm under which Bangladesh is moving towards realization of its goal is “people-centered, community-led, gender-sensitive and demand-driven”.
Following principles are facilitating this new paradigm, wherein the thrust is on:
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Elimination of open defecation and other unhygienic practices, as well as the promotion of good hygienic practice;
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Providing hardware subsidies only to the poorest of the poor, who have no means of helping themselves, to be given under appropriate and effective monitoring and evaluation arrangements;
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Recognizing the need for community subsidies for promotion, awareness, capacity-building and the creation of funding mechanisms for scaling up sanitation and hygiene programmes;
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Understanding and creating demand and sustaining attitudinal and behavioural change and encouraging wider community participation, as opposed to top down approaches to subsidized sanitation programmes;
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Giving proper and appropriate acknowledgement and rewards to Local Governments and communities demonstrating tangible success in the elimination of open defecation and other unhygienic practices, intensifying advocacy through political and religious leadership;
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Hygienic disposal of children’s faeces, other hygienic practices and the development of hygienic education in schools and community sanitation programmes;
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Recognizing the need for gender-sensitive programmes;
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Research and development of a range viable, locally-appropriate, technological options that should be available at affordable costs;
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Creating an enabling environment for small scale private providers and innovative technical and financial mechanisms to be mainstreamed to promote better, faster and cheaper service delivery;
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Encouraging Local Governments to engage in strategic partnerships with community based organisations (CBOs), NGOs, and other concerned actors so as to facilitate scaling up of this new paradigm;
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Recognizing the need for special arrangements when dealing with sanitation programmes in conflict and emergency situations. |
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