A Bangladeshi government sanitation drive that ran from 2003 to 2006, mobilizing the country toward the ambitious national target of ending open defecation, and drawing in part on the community led total sanitation approach that Bangladeshi development worker Kamal Kar had piloted in Mosmoil village, Rajshahi district, in 1999 and 2000, in which a local NGO stopped subsidizing toilet construction and instead prompted villagers to confront and change their own sanitation practices through community analysis. Building on the momentum of the 2003 to 2006 national campaign, Bangladesh raised improved sanitation coverage from about 33 percent in 2003 to 61 percent by 2016, an increase of 28 percentage points, and cut the share of the population practicing open defecation to just 3 percent.
Facts
Program StatusCompleted (formal 2003-2006 national campaign period; sanitation gains sustained by successor local programs) 1 Sponsoring BodyLocal government units (union parishads), Bangladesh 1 Target PopulationRural households in Bangladesh unions 1 Health Goal100 percent household latrine coverage; ending open defecation 1 Geographic ScopeBangladesh (national, implemented through local unions) 1 Measured ResultsShifted a large part of the country's population away from open defecation to using household concrete-lined pit latrines 1 Classification
Program KindSanitation or Water Program 1 Connections
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
Sources
1. Sanitation Learning Hub: What Has Worked for Bangladesh? (2018)
Suzanne Hanchett, Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2018Blog para 2, campaign-groups list item (a), start of date range
local government leaders guiding their constituents to '100 percent' household latrine coverage during a 2003-2006 national sanitation campaign
Blog para 2, campaign-groups list item (a), end of date range
local government leaders guiding their constituents to '100 percent' household latrine coverage during a 2003-2006 national sanitation campaign
Blog para 2, campaign period reference
a) local government leaders guiding their constituents to '100 percent' household latrine coverage during a 2003-2006 national sanitation campaign
Blog para 2, phrase on local government leadership role
local government leaders guiding their constituents to '100 percent' household latrine coverage
Blog opening paragraph, national sanitation coverage framing
Over the past two decades Bangladesh has achieved significant successes around national sanitation coverage, through increased latrine access and sanitation education campaigns
Blog para 2, target percentage phrase
guiding their constituents to '100 percent' household latrine coverage during a 2003-2006 national sanitation campaign
Blog opening paragraph, description of nine Bangladesh unions studied
I provide an outline of changes in the sanitation situation in nine Bangladesh unions, mostly rural areas, over a period of five or more years
Blog opening paragraph, outcome clause
which has resulted in a large part of the country's population shifting away from open defecation to using household concrete-lined pit latrines
Program classification, entity description sentence
A Bangladeshi government sanitation drive that ran from 2003 to 2006, mobilizing the country toward the ambitious national target of ending open defecation, and drawing in part on the community led total sanitation approach that Bangladeshi development worker Kamal Kar had piloted in Mosmoil village, Rajshahi district, in 1999 and 2000, in which a local NGO stopped subsidizing toilet construction and instead prompted villagers to confront and change their own sanitation practices through community analysis.
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