Vision
Ensuring a safe and sustainable faecal sludge management system in Bangladesh for improved public health and living environment for all by 2030
Who we are
About Us
Bangladesh Faecal Sludge Management Network is a common and collective platform for the sector actors to generate ideas, share views, influence policy and practice, and raise a collective voice to meet the challenges of sanitation sector.
Idea Generation
Knowledge Sharing
Collaborative Learning
Policy Influencing
Practice Change
5
Priority Areas
16+
Members
20+
Stakeholders
5
Conventions
Mission
To act as a knowledge and advocacy platform where FSM is an intermediary solution for influencing policy and changes in practice for access to adequate, equitable and improved sanitation
What guides us
Our Objectives
01
To work in a collaborative learning approach with all stakeholders to capture evidence, communicate knowledge and facilitate sector capacity building.
02
To engage and provide strategic guidance to the FSM stakeholders for advancing appropriate technologies and approaches for safe and sustainable management of faecal sludge.
What guides us
Our Priorities
01
Improve waste and sanitation workers’ quality of life and livelihood – with a particular focus on ensuring gender equity
02
Encourage uptake and integration of City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approaches in National and City/Municipality programmes for sustainable sanitation
03
Develop alternative approaches for sanitation financing – including opportunities to promote city wide sanitation tax
04
Drive private sector engagement in urban sanitation value chain and faecal sludge management
05
Advance faecal sludge management standardisation and certification processes for both service processes and end use products.