Management Information Systems (MIS), SenseMaker and the Quality Information System (QIS) keep track of progress across nearly half of Bangladesh. Read more...
Since 2006 IRC supports a large-scale holistic programme that enables the poor in 250 sub-districts of Bangladesh to seize control of their lives Read more...
Dr. Babar Kabir explains that thanks to BRAC's WASH 1 Programme 25 million people have access to improved hygienic latrines. In this programme, which ran for 4,5 years and finished in April 2011, the focus was on hygiene. However, more time is needed to change behaviours, so in the WASH 2 Programme... Read more...
This paper describes the major operational approaches of the BRAC WASH programme including monitoring, evaluation and some results. To carry out this study on water safety practices, use of sanitation facilities and self-reported water-related disease prevalence, a comparison was made between... Read more...
This presentation describes the WASH in Schools activities of the BRAC-WASH program in Bangladesh. Along with financial support from school authorities, BRAC WASH is constructing separate sanitary latrines for girls with menstrual hygiene facilities in secondary schools. It also addresses the... Read more...
Summary of the messages from the South Asia Hygiene practitioners’ workshop, 1 – 4 February 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop is organised by... Read more...
A large-scale survey carried out by BRAC’s Research Evaluation Division (RED) amongst 30,000 households found that knowledge of hygiene is very strong among more than 90% of the people, but actual hygiene practices develop far more slowly. Read more...
BRAC has been implementing the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in 150 sub-districts of Bangladesh with a focus of achieving MDG 7; target 10 with support from the Government of the Netherlands since 2006. Read more...
This new 9 minute video shows how BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water, sanitation and hygiene programme in nearly 3,000 schools across rural Bangladesh. The programme includes menstrual hygiene facilties. [Female students] have expressed that something so... Read more...
The BRAC WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) programme aims to reach 37 million people with hygiene education and promotion. A paper describes three community-based aspects of hygiene education: through Imams, schools and folk media. Read more...