Faecal sludge Faridpur
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Authors
Noemie de la Brosse
Issue Date
2016-08
Type
Language
en
Keywords
Water and Sanitation
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Abstract
Urban faecal sludge management project in Faridpur, Bangladesh Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and UK Department for International Development (DFID) Partner: Municipality of Faridpur (pop 130,0000 November 2014 – October 2016 While Faridpur municipality is well managed, like all secondary towns in Bangladesh it struggles to resource its public services. Faridpur currently has no piped sewerage network and it is unrealistic to expect this in the near or medium term future. Across the town, faecal sludge is contained on-site, and currently an estimated 74 % is disposed unsafely into the urban environment, creating significant health hazards for residents. The objective of the project is to eliminate the dumping of untreated human excreta into the urban environment. Project activities • Detailed situational analysis of the state of faecal sludge management in the town • Business proposal to improve the system on a large scale be adopting service level agreements with private sector service providers • Technical and strategy capacity building for Faridpur municipality to adopt, adapts and scales up performance-based service level agreements focusing on pit emptying, transport and safe treatment. • Low-income slum communities of “sweepers” currently undertake the majority of pit emptying jobs. Recognising this valuable role that the informal sector plays in the system, the municipality of Faridpur will draw on Practical Action’s support to work closely with these communities as partners as the new arrangements are tested and refined. • Supporting to build and operationalise an initial treatment plant with capacity of 35 cubic metres per day, and build evidence of viability of business models towards possible competitive procurement in the future as treatment capacity is expanded on a modular basis, to reach city-wide service delivery.