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Practical Action Bangladesh
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30/01/2015
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en
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Water and Sanitation
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Urban Environment IA35000171BAN
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IA35000171BAN- ISSUE 2 (Urban Environment) This programme is about empowering local stakeholders, to develop and implement practical solutions to overcome urban environmental problems, and meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) WASTE will work with local partner consortia to plan, design, implement and evaluate projects in sanitation and solid waste management in 15 “districts” in the South. Each “district” consists of (an) urban centre(s), surrounded by peri-urban, and adjoining rural areas. The district is chosen based on locally identifiable political, environmental, social and economic unity. In addition to the implementation, related objectives include a focus on sustainable financing, capacity building , policy coherence and upscaling, governance, and empowering the partners. Building on the lessons of the past 15 years the programme has the following innovative features: 1. Genuinely decentralised management, done by a programme board at programme level and with management in the field at district level. 2. Utilisation of sanitation and solid waste management as the springboard to supporting sustainable livelihoods. 3. A co-financing agreement with SNS-bank that supplements DGIS resources with debt and potentially equity financing for hard investment. 4. A substantive focus on sustainable modernisation of the urban environmental sector, based on a mix of approaches, rather than on one large technical system. 5. A focus on the economic and environmental potentials available from better understanding and managing the resource and nutrient cycling within and between districts. 6. A commitment to exploring the synergies from integration of solid waste and excreta waste streams management.
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