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Bangladesh. The final draft of the LF elimination dossier is still awaiting final signature from the Minister of Health. It will be submitted to WHO SEARO for review and validation after it is signed, expected to happen in December 2022. Xxx PDR • Act | East and WHO have supported Xxx PDR’s CMPE to respond to the Regional Dossier Review Group’s (RDRG) comments within their LF elimination dossier. The dossier should be resubmitted to WHO WPRO and the RDRG in December 2022. Viet Nam • FHF Viet Nam and Act | East HQ continue to work with VNEH on their submission of an extension request to the MOH in order to complete four TT-only surveys that are necessary for the finalization of the country’s trachoma dossier. A funding letter (which is part of the extension request) has been shared with the MOH and VNEH has received comments. Act | East has also facilitated WHO to advocate for this request to specific VNEH and MOH officials. Upcoming activities requiring COVID protocols: • TSS: Act | East will support TSS in Meo Vac and Don Van districts of Ha Xxxxx province starting from December 5, 2022. VNEH will implement the surveys with technical support from FHF Viet Nam and Tropical Data. COVID-19 data monitoring sources: Viet Nam: WHO: xxxxx://xxxxx00.xxx.xxx/region/wpro/country/vn November 2022 TANZANIA Act | East Partner: RTI, WI-HER, R4D Total population: 59.4 million (2022) COP: [Redacted] Districts: 184 RTI HQ Team: [Redacted] Endemic diseases: LF (119), TRA (69), OV (29), SCH (184), STH (184) TABLE: Activities supported by USAID in FY23 LF OV SCH STH Trachoma Mapping N/A OEM: 0/4 districts N/A N/A 0/11 districts (0/10 EUs) MDA 0/4 districts Round 1: 0/14 districts Round 2: 0/29 districts 35/35 districts (FY22 carry over) 41/41 districts (FY22 carry-over) Round 1: 0/2 districts Round 2: 0/9 districts DSAs (#EUs) Re-Pre-TAS: 0/5 districts TAS1: 0/13 EUs TAS2: 0/4 EUs TAS3: 0/11 EUs Pre-stop MDA survey: 1 focus Stop MDA survey: 1 focus SCH impact assessment: 0/5 districts N/A N/A XXXXX XX DSA outcome investigation in 0/2 districts LF follow-up surveillance survey in 0/2 districts Microplanning for TRA (0/6 districts), OV (0/3 districts), and LF (0/2 districts) TRA CES in 4/6 districts TRA DQA in 0/1 district Improve district capacity in data management using the country specific NTD database HSS Strengthen CCHP budget development Develop and pilot training module on NTD planning and budgeting Strengthen TZNTDCP engagement in SWAp Meetings to facilitate bilateral agreement b...
Bangladesh. WASHplus was granted a no-cost extension in May to continue activities into early 2016. In Year Five, WaterAid supported partner NGO SAP, investing in activities to maximize sustainability. Local partners, union facilitators, and trained volunteers mobilized communities around the benefits of WASH via household visits and awareness campaigns and supported community development forums to help communities achieve and maintain open defecation free (ODF) status. In addition, WASHplus worked closely with other USAID implementing partners, SPRING and XXXXXX, to integrate WASH into their nutrition activities. Over the course of this year, WASHplus successfully met or surpassed all proposed targets (revised in October 2014) and expanded to a new upazila (district), Satkhira, where the focus is on construction of innovative water technologies in challenging environments. Through installation of water technologies, 36,646 people gained access to an improved drinking water source (49 percent above target). As a result of nonhardware activities, such as reinforcing key hygiene and sanitation behavior changes through CLTS and the small doable actions (SDA) approach, WASHplus successfully decreased the prevalence of open defecation and increased the number of people using latrines and practicing improved WASH behaviors, like handwashing with soap. To maintain and ensure sustained services, WASHplus put in place skilled personnel and mechanisms for upkeep, maintenance, rehabilitation, and eventually new service delivery in the target communities. To date, the program has trained 1,450 caretakers to maintain WASH facilities. In Year Five, WASHplus conducted handover activities with local partners and beneficiary communities. WASHplus engaged with local government authorities to ensure the capacity transferred over the course of the project has and will be maintained. Part of the local government’s commitment is also to support the WatSan Committees as a mechanism for financial and technical sustainability. 19,025 new latrines 6,239 household latrines for the poor using project funds 285 communities certified ODF WASHplus also successfully organized dissemination workshops for the National Hygiene Strategy whose objective is to promote the sustainable use of improved water supply and sanitation infrastructure and to create an enabling environment that will ensure comprehensive hygiene promotion and practices to reduce water and sanitation-related illness. To address the ch...
Bangladesh. This year, WASHplus received the consumer research findings from iDE and a draft 4Ps Marketing Mix and Behavior Change Strategy for New Improved Cookstoves and are working with the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) to develop a number of knowledge products as well as our USAID deliverables, which will be forthcoming in early 2016.
Bangladesh. Product standards are not available for SWH systems in Bangladesh, there are no documented measures/initiatives for development of such standards in Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute (BSTI)1, the national standards body was established in 1985 for product standardizations in the country.
Bangladesh. Renewable Energy Research Centre (RERC) of Dhaka University initiated its research activities on solar hot water systems in 1990 by manufacturing Thermosyphon solar hot water system at their facility. It continued refining skills in fabrication of SWH from locally available materials in Bangladesh. Understanding the need for testing SWH systems for its performance, 2003 onwards the centre is also involved in outdoor and indoor performance tests for flat plate type solar collectors. RERC has designed and fabricated a SWH flat plate collector system of 60-400 Litre capacities with all local available materials and successfully tested the performance in July 2009. Bangladesh has a wealth experience in solar water heaters on laboratory scale, which is not commercialized rightly for its promotion. 7 “GS1 Vietnam - Vietnam Standards and Quality Institute.” [Online]. Available: xxxx://xxx.xx0xx.xxx.xx/default.aspx?portalid=5. [Accessed: 27-Apr-2011]. 8 “Solar Products in Sri Lanka ~ Green Earth renewables (Pvt) Limited”, n.d., xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xx/products.htm. Institute of Fuel Research & Development (IFRD)9 has established a laboratory for conducting research & testing on solar, wind, and micro-hydro equipment to study the applicability for water pumping and generation of electricity in remote and off-shore islands of Bangladesh. The facility can be improved to test solar water heaters in future. The Centre for Mass Education in Science (CMES)10 was established in 1978 to create awareness among citizens of Bangladesh towards developments in science and technology. Later on CMES started solar energy related activities through its field offices. It has established its “Solar Lab” in 2000-01 to take up adaptive research on accessories of solar PV systems, solar cookers, solar water heaters and solar dryers. CMES is one of the country’s focal agencies in the “RET in Asia Program” funded by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
Bangladesh. Bangladesh, officially the People’s Republic of Bangladesh is a South Asian country located between 20° 34’ and 26° 38’ North latitude and 88° 01’ and 92°41’ East longitude. The capital city of Bangladesh is Dhaka. Bangladesh was a part of the British Indian province till 1947, which then was separated and formed a part of Pakistan called ‘East Pakistan’. It emerged as an independent and sovereign country in 1971, currently practicing democratic parliamentary government. It is bordered by India on North, West and a part of East, Bay of Bengal on South and Myanmar on South-east.
Bangladesh. Solar water heating technology was known in Bangladesh since 1990s. The initial efforts were targeted towards studies on suitability of SWH technology to the country’s climatic conditions. The National Energy Policy (NEP) 1995 has got guidelines to develop Renewable Energy Technologies and the draft Renewable Energy Policy (REP) was submitted to Government of Bangladesh (GoB) in 2002. Under the guidelines of REP 2002, solar water heaters are exempted from custom duties and Value Added Tax (VAT). Initially, the SWH systems were imported, mainly from China, but the system cost was very high and not at all affordable. Then, the research and academic organizations such as Renewable Energy Research Institute (RERC) of Bangladesh University and Institute of Fuel Research & Development (IFRD), Centre for Mass Education in Science (CMES), Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) strived to develop SWH systems using locally available materials. The systems were successfully manufactured and tested at their own facilities. In parallel, a few local manufacturers who were already involved in other solar energy businesses started manufacturing the SWH systems locally. It is observed that there is no steady growth in the business mainly due to – lower living standards in rural areas, high initial costs and cheaper competitive fuels. Most importantly, in a developing country like Bangladesh where issues of priority are basic needs to citizens (healthy food, secure living space, and health facilities), poverty, and electricity access to all for the Government, the market is not that developed to absorb such technologies which form the secondary needs to citizens.
Bangladesh. Solar water heating technology was known in Bangladesh since 1990s. The initial efforts were targeted towards studies on suitability of SWH technology to the country’s climatic conditions. Initially, the SWH systems were imported, mainly from China, but the system cost was very high and not at all affordable. Then, the research and academic organizations such as Renewable Energy Research Institute (RERC) of Bangladesh University and Institute of Fuel Research & Development (IFRD), Centre for Mass Education in Science (CMES), Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) strived to develop SWH systems using locally available materials. The systems were successfully manufactured and tested at their own facilities. In parallel, a few local manufacturers who were already involved in other solar energy businesses started manufacturing the SWH systems locally. SWH manufacturers & taxes: IIEC with the valuable co-operation from Rahimafrooz Renewable Energy Limited (RREL), the pioneer and leading company in the solar energy business (including SWH systems) of Bangladesh has obtained and able to present information on design and installation related aspects of SWH systems in the country. There is no national estimate available for total number of SWH installations in Bangladesh. The installations are scattered in the country and attributed to the individual manufacturers and suppliers of SWH systems. Imported systems from China and neighbouring India dominate and compete with the locally manufactured products. Under the guidelines of Renewable Energy Policy (REP) 2002, imported solar water heaters are exempted from custom duties and Value Added Tax (VAT). Potential market for SWH installations: The potential market for SWH installations are residential bungalows, off-grid resorts and hotels and tanneries and industries. Considering the tropical climate in Bangladesh, high cost of SWH systems and infant stage of the industry, the technology is not very competitive for all residential customers, the most enquiries and installations are from only high end residential customers. For commercial customers (hotels and resorts) and industrial customers (especially tanneries), unreliable power supply issues are reasons for using solar energy wherever possible. Since 2006-07, the growth rate of number of SWH installations in commercial and industrial premises has increased, but remains very low. RREL which is considered to be a market leader in Bangladesh has installed 12 S...
Bangladesh. Bangladesh developed and adopted the first National Energy Policy in 1995 and updated the policy in 2005. As mentioned in the NEP document of 1995, one of the objectives of the policy is “to ensure environmentally sound sustainable energy development programmes, with due importance to renewable energy, causing minimum damage to environment”. The Power Cell which was then responsible for RE & EE development in the country drafted Renewable Energy Policy for approval of GoB. The REP was approved by the GoB in 2008 and SEDA is setup under the policy. The excerpts from 2008 REP – “To promote solar water heaters, use of electricity and gas for water heating will be discouraged. In this regard necessary steps will be considered accordingly”. The fiscal incentives proposed under the REP for promotion of SWH systems along with other RETs are discussed in sub-section 8.1.1.
