NRC National Resource Centre

The National Resource Centre (NRC) of NGO Forum is a knowledge management and dissemination centre serving as a national memory bank in the WatSan sector which also functions as a one-stop mall with the objectives of collecting, documenting and sharing of information relevant to the sector.

Opinion: Sanitation deserves highest priority: Sanitation means the safe management of human excreta, including environmental cleanliness, hand washing, garbage removal and wastewater disposal. Proper sanitation is the basis of a healthy environment. Lack of sanitation facilities forces people to discharge excreta in open places. Pollutants from excreta contaminate the water of streams, rivers, lakes and underground aquifers. Lack of hygiene, especially failure to wash hands after defecation, leads to disease transmission. Every year, 1.5 million children under five die from diarrhoea. Without proper sanitation, a sustainable environment is not possible.

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Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference ended with political agreement to cap temperature rise, reduce emissions and raise finance: The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen ended on 18 December 2009 with an agreement by countries to cap the global temperature rise by committing to significant emission reductions, and to raise finance to kickstart action in the developing world to deal with climate change. At the meeting, world leaders agreed the ‘Copenhagen Accord’, which was supported by a majority of countries, including amongst them the biggest and the richest, and the smallest and most vulnerable.

“We have sealed the deal” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “This accord cannot be everything that everyone hoped for, but it is an essential beginning,” he said.
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The Stockholm Statement from World Water Week to the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15): 2009 World Water Week participants unanimously support Stockholm Statement on water, climate change, and adaptation. The participants of the 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm unanimously said that water must be included in the COP-15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December.
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Half a Million People in Bangladesh Access Water Safe from Arsenic: In Bangladesh, approximately half a million citizens are now drinking water safe from arsenic contamination. This is due to a pay-for-use service whereby over 36,430 water sources, such as handpumps, deep tubewells, and open wells, have been tested and colored in more than 24 of the Union Parishads that are participating in the Horizontal Learning Initiative, the peer-to-peer learning process among the Parishads. The Union Parishad is the lowest tier of local government in rural Bangladesh.

The initiative includes at least eight Union Parishads that are claiming to have achieved arsenic- safe water for all by ensuring that all water sources in their jurisdiction have been tested and marked. The political manifesto of the newly elected Awami League government carries a commitment to ensure arsenic-safe water for all by 2011...
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THE FACTS: SANITATION, HYGIENE, AND WATER: More than three quarters of Bangladeshis over 115 million- live in rural areas. Although most Bangladeshis now use latrines, most of these are not hygienic.

Of the latrines in rural areas, only 32% meet international sanitary standards. Among the poorest families, almost one in three people still defecate in the open. Poor sanitation leads to diarrhea, typhoid and other diseases that impact childhood mortality and morbidity rates.
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