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Summary

Over the recent years, Bangladesh has made substantial progress towards elimating open defaecation.  However, information regarding latrine coverage and use of figures provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) figures, as well as national data census  numerous NGO reports can often lead to confusion.

To this end,  WSSCC-Bangladesh (WSSCC-B) and FANSA-Bangladesh jointly conducted a review across 150 villages to clarify the sanitation situation in targetted areas of Bangladesh.  

The findings of this review are presented in the "Bangladesh Citizens Report on Sanitation, 2011”. The Study revealed that 64.9 percent of censuses population used hygienic latrines, 23.1 percent used unhygienic latrines and about 10 percent continued to practice open defecation. The Study also revealed that more than 78 percent of the interviewed population showed awareness in regard to Government-led subsidy instrument.  However only four percent of participants were able to access such subsidies, with two percent living in extreme poverty.