Foundation training

What went well? in phase I

• Community-Managed Fire Hydrant & Water
Supply System at Sattala Boundary Slum, in
collaboration with WaterAid and the LIUPC
project of UNDP, aims to ensure access to
safe water and reduce risk of fire hazards
• Inclusive WASH facilities for people with
disabilities (PWD) at Earshad Nagar Slum
support differently-abled individuals
• A CBO initiative influences service providers
to extend the service line into the community
for water supply
• Utilisation of the WASH fund through CBO
initiatives at the community level The
installation of vending machines in schools
significantly reduces absenteeism among
girls during their menstrual periods
• Paddle systems and group handwashing
support in slums and schools during COVID-
in phase I
19 create mass awareness in communities
and institutions What could have been done better?
• Soap drive campaigns ensure a year-round While achieving our project targets in phase-I, improvements are
supply of soap for students without possible. Emphasizing interventions like introducing WASH facilities
institutional financing in new locations and developing a city-wide customer forum for slum
• Community voices influenced DWASA & dwellers would enhance outcomes. Organizing dialogues between
DNCC to install a Deep tube well at Korail
slum dwellers and service providers could strengthen the
slum, addressing water scarcity
community's capacity for WASH rights. Active involvement of high
• CBOs and institution authorities organize
officials through exposure visits would ensure institutional WASH
visits for high-level delegates from different
facility functionality. Prioritizing WASH entrepreneurship at the
agencies to showcase project highlights
community level using the WASH fund and establishing a
management database and CBO training would be more effective.

What should we continue? in phase II

Installation of WASH facilities at community and Advocacy initiatives to establish WASH rights for
institutions. Poor community through system strengthening.

Piloting new technology (WASH facilities at STS,

Hygiene Promotion at community and institutions
Police Box and hanging slum).

Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK) is a non-government

Community Mobilization and capacity building
development organisation (NGO) working to eliminate
poverty of the targeted poor in selected hard-to-reach
remote areas of the country. DSK aims to realize the basic
needs of the poor, marginalized and disadvantaged people
and to build a society free from exploitation and deprivation.

Shahthya Nirapotta Scheme (SNS)