Locations Bangladesh

Inclusive and gender responsive WASH budget monitoring tool

Local level tool for WASH budget monitoring used in Bangladesh.

Published on June 18, 2019

Pro-people WASH budget: A sustainable development agenda

A news article by Mohammad Zobair Hasan on the existing WASH budgeting system in Bangladesh.

Published on June 18, 2019

Local participation and public budget demand in Bangladesh: fiscal year 2018-19

This position paper looks into budget allocation and demand for water and sanitation in Bhola, Bangladesh.

Published on June 18, 2019

WASH and IWRM: Experience of Bangladesh

DORP is implementing the Watershed program at Bhola where the issues are very relevant. Bhola, a coastal district, is basically an island. It is a hard to reach area combination of both rural and urban. Many chars (marshy land) are also under the district’s...

Published on June 18, 2019

More than just demand – citizen scoring

Scoring by using the citizen score card in Bhola (Bangladesh) was a civil society initiative to value government WASH and IWRM services and get feedback from public agencies. This has helped in developing relationships with citizens and improve the services of the...

Published on November 7, 2018

Can CSOs improve allocation to water and sanitation through budget tracking

Budget tracking on WASH is a process which helps to visualize how public budget is allocated and utilized at Union Parishad (lowest tier of the government administration in Bangladesh) in order to improve basic service access to water, sanitation and hygiene for...

Published on November 7, 2018

Strengthening the capacity of civil society organisations to influence policy and achieve SDG 6

Watershed empowering citizens is a strategic partnership of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo. This brief document shares the work and direction of the partnership.

Published on March 15, 2018

Join Watershed webinar on social inclusion: June 7

Join Watershed webinar on social inclusion: June 7 Inclusion is not just about improving access to services for those who are currently excluded but also supporting people to engage in wider processes to ensure that their rights and needs are recognised. This...

Published on May 24, 2017

Watershed-empowering citizens Launching programme Bangladesh

Watershed – Empowering Citizens, a five year long policy and advocacy strengthening programme, was launched today in Dhaka. The progamme aims to improve governance for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and integrated water resource management (IWRM) through...

Published on March 28, 2017

Citizens’ engagement required in water resource management

Speakers at the launching programme of the project on water and sanitation management, ‘Watershed: Empowering Citizens’. Bangladesh has made significant achievements in the sectors of water and sanitation, but proper management of the source of the water is...

Published on March 28, 2017

Pathways to change : empowering citizens

In seven countries, Watershed partners have met to develop “theories of change” (ToCs) for capacity building in lobbying and advocacy. Teams in Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Ghana, Bangladesh and India developed national ToCs, while teams in Amsterdam/The Hague developed...

Published on July 15, 2016