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.
Vision
Vision
Ensuring a safe and sustainable faecal sludge management system in Bangladesh for improved public health and living environment for all by 2030
Mission
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
Objectives
Objectives
1
To work in a collaborative learning approach with all stakeholders to capture evidence, communicate knowledge and facilitate sector capacity building.
2
To engage and provide strategic guidance to the FSM stakeholders for advancing appropriate technologies and approaches for safe and sustainable management of faecal sludge.
Priorities
Priorities
1
Improve waste and sanitation workers’ quality of life and livelihood – with a particular focus on ensuring gender equity
2
Encourage uptake and integration of City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approaches in National and City/Municipality programmes for sustainable sanitation
3
Develop alternative approaches for sanitation financing – including opportunities to promote city wide sanitation tax
4
Drive private sector engagement in urban sanitation value chain and faecal sludge management
5
Advance faecal sludge management standardisation and certification processes for both service processes and end use products.