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...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/18027519/hard-reach-areas-providing-water-supply-sanitation-services-all http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17374 |
| 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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