RDRS Bangladesh is implementing the Water and Sanitation for Rural Poor of Northern Bangladesh project in Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, & Nilphamari district of Rangpur division and Moulvibazar & Hobigonj district of Sylhet division. The project is being implemented with the support of Water.org. The 50,000 households are the direct and 225,000 households are the indirect programme participants of the project. The Program participants are poor household members. Most of them have no ability to install sanitary latrines, even some of them are not able to set up a tube well on their own. This project is providing loan facilities with technical support to the poor for construction of latrines.

The Water and Sanitation for Rural Poor of Northern Bangladesh project is designed in line with SDG –6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).

The goal of the project is to bring the underprivileged community people under access to safe water and sanitary latrines to ensure their good health and a healthy environment for all. The objectives of the project are

1.  To facilitate access to safe drinking water as well as improved sanitation facilities of poor and disadvantaged people;
2. To make programme participants aware of health-hygiene and waste management system; and
3. To introduce evidence-based documentation and coordination among WaSH actors for the replication of good practices.

The programme participants are receiving hygiene education and awareness along with the sanitation loans. The major activities of the project are water loan disbursement, sanitation loan disbursement, training for programme participants, group discussion etc.