Hard-to-Reach Areas : Providing Water Supply and Sanitation Services to All
Water Sanitation coverage in Bangladesh has significantly improved in the last couple of years but research outputs or reports and experience of water and sanitation (WatSan) service providers suggest that there exist pockets of areas in Bangladesh where WatSan services are not adequate by any standard. Based on practical experience, many of those areas have been identified and termed Hard to reach Areas (HtRAs), which creates the notion that WatSan service providers fail to reach or find it difficult to provide services to these specific areas, however in Banglades, HtRAs can be conceptualized and understood from wider perspectives. For practical purposes, HtRAs are defined in Bangladesh in terms of both their remote geographical location as well as population residing out of the range of development activities. This leads to consideration of issues covered in a socioeconomic factorial analysis, that is, cultural diversity, religious norms, traditional practices, and social norms and values, which play a crucial role in water and sanitation coverage as well as behavioral change in Bangladesh. The community composition, ethnicity, geo-physical traits and environment are determinant factors in achieving success in water and sanitation coverage and behavioral change.
Summary: | Water Sanitation coverage in Bangladesh
has significantly improved in the last couple of years but
research outputs or reports and experience of water and
sanitation (WatSan) service providers suggest that there
exist pockets of areas in Bangladesh where WatSan services
are not adequate by any standard. Based on practical
experience, many of those areas have been identified and
termed Hard to reach Areas (HtRAs), which creates the notion
that WatSan service providers fail to reach or find it
difficult to provide services to these specific areas,
however in Banglades, HtRAs can be conceptualized and
understood from wider perspectives. For practical purposes,
HtRAs are defined in Bangladesh in terms of both their
remote geographical location as well as population residing
out of the range of development activities. This leads to
consideration of issues covered in a socioeconomic factorial
analysis, that is, cultural diversity, religious norms,
traditional practices, and social norms and values, which
play a crucial role in water and sanitation coverage as well
as behavioral change in Bangladesh. The community
composition, ethnicity, geo-physical traits and environment
are determinant factors in achieving success in water and
sanitation coverage and behavioral change. |
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