Browsing by Subject "Sanitation"

Assessment of faecal sludge management system in Rohingya response refugees camps, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar

Islam, Md. Toriqul (Brac University, 2024-03)

Bangladesh is currently experiencing the world’s fastest increasing Rohingya refugee settlement issue. With limited resources and available space, managing feces sludge in emergency settlements with a high population ...

BRAC’s sanitation program: a case study

Baset, Kazi Ziaul (BRAC Univeristy, 2017)

Bangladesh has made significant progress in the field of sanitation. Bangladesh Government and some NGOs are working to fulfill the targets set for sanitation in the Millennium Development Goals and the more ambitious ...

Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH benefits study design and rationale

F. Arnold, Benjamin; Null, Clair; P. Luby, Stephen; Unicomb, Leanne; Ahmed, Tahmeed; Ashraf, Sania; Christensen, Garret; Clasen, Thomas; Dentz, Holly N.; Fernald, Lia C H; Haque, Rashidul; Hubbard, Alan E.; Kariger, Patricia; Leontsini, Elli; Lin, Audrie; Njenga, Sammy M.; Pickering, Amy J.; Ram, Pavani K.; Stewart, Christine P.; Dewey, Kathryn G.; Tofail, Fahmida; Winch, Peter J; Jr, John M Colford (© 2013 BMJ Open, 2013)

Introduction: Enteric infections are common during the first years of life in low-income countries and contribute to growth faltering with long-term impairment of health and development. Water quality, sanitation, handwashing ...

Environmental sanitation in participatory development approach: experience of NGOs in Bangladesh

Hadi, Abdullahel (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1998)

Exploring reasons of variation in target achievement in sanitary latrine construction under school sanitation programme of BRAC WASH

Arif, Tahmid; Ahmed, Shamim (BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 2009-06)

Since 2007 BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme has been promoting construction of sanitary latrines with water source and waste management provision at the girls' secondary educational institutes in 150 ...

Getting the basic rights - the role of water, sanitation and hygiene in maternal and reproductive health: a conceptual framework

Objective: To explore linkages between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and maternal and perinatal health via a conceptual approach and a scoping review. Methods: We developed a conceptual framework iteratively, ...

Isolation of Klebsiella pneumoniae from water and hand swabs of vegetable vendors collected from the wet markets of Dhaka city

Zaman, Afsana; Labiba, Mashiat (Brac University, 2023-11)

Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) is considered one of the major causes of human hospital infections which is found in human intestine. This bacterium belongs to the Enterobacteriaceae family, and this is a gram-negative, ...