14 June 2022 | UCLG ASPAC sanitation programme Municipalities Network Advocacy on Sanitation in South Asia (MuNASS) II moves forward. This time, the programme team ensured the project’s sustainability through partnership. The Municipal Association of Bangladesh (MAB), the lead institution for the implementation in Bangladesh, and the International Training Network – Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (ITN-BUET) have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the objective to promote the City Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approach in the urban sanitation initiatives in Bangladesh under the UCLG ASPAC executed Municipalities Network Advocacy on Sanitation in South Asia (MuNASS) II. The signing took place during a ceremony on June 14 at MAB Office in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The agreement has also ensured collaboration between MAB and ITN-BUET, a network of knowledge and skill development in water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh, to collaborate and ensure the sustainability of the CWIS approach through knowledge and learning exchange with each other and among sector actors. Scope of the collaboration also includes capacity building of MAB as well as focusing on gender and social inclusion for women leaders, orientation for municipal representatives and officials on Institutional and Regulatory Framework – National Action Plan (IRF-NAP), orientation for media professionals – all on CWIS/FSM under MuNASS II.
“The knowledge materials generated by ITN-BUET would add value to the initiatives of MAB which can be eventually replicated within and beyond the country to achieve CWIS/SDG 6,” said MAB President, Dewan Kamal Ahmed, during the event. Also present in the event were MAB Secretary General, Khalid Hossain, MAB’s Gender Equity and Social Inclusiveness Unit Member Secretary, Yasmin Sultana, ITN-BUET Director, Dr. Tanvir Ahmed, CEO of CWIS FSM Support Cell of Bangladesh, D. Abdullah Al-Muyeed and UCLG ASPAC’s MuNASS Project Manager, Shamim Ahsan Chowdhury.
With BMGF funding, MAB has been the implementing agency of UCLG ASPAC in Bangladesh since 2015 under MuNASS.
MuNASS II in Bangladesh has the goal to develop and demonstrate innovation in safely managed sanitation to achieve SDG 6.2 and mainstream into the regional agenda, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations.
