Barind Multipurpose Development Authority, Rajshahi.(BMDA) (Component 2.4)

Programme Management Unit (PMU) / Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) (Component 2.5)

• Established Field Office in CHT

• Organized 19 Workshops:

  • 1 Launching Workshop

  • 14 Grassroots Workshops

  • 3 District Workshops

  • 1 Regional Workshop

• Compilation of Findings (Draft NEMAP-CHT]

• Development of Project Concepts

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) (Component 2.6)

• Solar village demonstration programme at Baliadangi, Thakurgaon
• Demonstration plant on solar market electrification at Shailkupa, Jhenaidah
• Cluster village electrification by solar PV at Nalitabari, Sherpur
• Solar PV electrification at a community clinic at Terokhada, Khulna
• Demonstration solar plant in a Tourist spot at Goznee, Jhenaighati
• Tribal community electrification by solar PV at Rangamati
• Solar demonstration plant at UP complex Khoksha, Kushtia
• Solar PV demonstration for IT development at Kutubdia, Cox’sbazar
• Large scale comprehensive solar electrification at a coastal community

• Community based Biogas plants at Kishoreganj and Khulna.
• One Bio-gasifier plant at one site of the country.

• Water pumping unit (Windmills) at Sherpur and Cox’s bazar sea beach.
• Wind Solar Hybrid systems at Kuakata Sea Beach.
• Twenty Wind Monitoring Station in different parts of the country

• Development of GIS Based Database of RET Installations under SRE component.
• Design and hosting of website on renewable energy development under LGED (www.lged.org/sre)
• Development of an web-based information platform compiling RET information on following issues
  • Resource database
  • Renewable energy projects
  • Research and development
  • Information media
• Publication of renewable energy newsletter
• Develop and maintain web-portal on RET
• GIS Based studies/research on renewable energy resource assessment and utilization at community level in various region of the country.

• Beneficiary/User Training
• Technician Training
• Training of Trainers
• Institutional Capacity Building

Programme Management Unit (PMU) / Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) (Component 2.7)

• In three meetings of PRC, 50 proposals approved with an amount of Tk. 3.52 cr (including 93,3100 for a project on ‘Flood Impact Assessment’ was funded)

• Projects range from advocacy to research studies to action programs

• Grant amount ranged from Tk. 1.5 lac to Tk.9.5 lac

• So far, eight awardees have completed the project and draft final reports submitted by several projects

• A new Environment Fund Management Committee formed in October 2001

• Out of the approved amount of Tk. 3.52 cr ($6.22 lac), Tk. 2.61 cr ($5.51 lac) disbursed so far

• Tk. 1.13 cr ($200,000) earmarked for the WSSD process

• Tk. 3.28 cr ($5.80 lac) left in the EF budget

Community Based Environmental Sanitation

Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) (Component 3.1)

Waste Concern (Component 3.2)

• Increased the capacity and collection coverage of the existing Community Based Composting Plant of Waste Concern at Section-2, Mirpur, Dhaka;

• Replicated similar types of  decentralized composting models of Waste Concern in 3 (three) more municipal areas of the Dhaka City Corporation area;

• Organized `Green Force’ group with the residents of each target community of  the project area. Green Force shall control, monitor and act as a watchdog for environment and solid waste related activities in the community;

• Partnership agreements with Public Works Department, Dhaka City Corporation and Shahidullah Hall of Dhaka University have been signed for establishment of composting plants at sites belonging to aforementioned agencies. It may be mentioned here that this is the first Public-Private Partnership in the solid waste management sector of Dhaka.

• Training programs for local community groups in three of the sites (Mirpur, Baily Road, and Green Road) have been organized as per PIP. Community groups in the aforementioned areas are able to run the program with occasional support from Waste Concern. Training program shall be organized at Dholpur and Dhaka University.

• Due to demonstration effect of this project the `National Policy for Safe Water Supply and Sanitation 1999’ has declared that local government bodies should promote recycling of organic waste through composting.

• The project has become a model, and almost all the national dailies, electronic media and national TV and BBC have demonstrated several features on the project highlighting its overall benefit

• The project has been documented and presented by Ministry of Housing and Public Works of the government at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Human Settlements, June 2001.

• The project has been also documented by the ASHOKA INNOVATORS OF PUBLIC, USA as best practice.

• This project has also documented as successful Public-private-community partnership project by the Asian Development Bank.

• Water Aid and OXFAM-UK are replicating the project in slums of Dhaka City;

• The model is being replicated by Khulna City Corporation (KCC) of Bangladesh with assistance from Swiss Development Cooperation and Water and Sanitation Program, South Asia;

• Request received for technical assistance to replicate the project in Chittagong and also  India.

• Community Based Solid Waste Management: Experience of Waste Concern in Dhaka has been published in the URBAN INNOVATIONS SERIES as successful innovative practices in the field of urban management by Urban Management Program (UMP) of UNDP/UNCHS.

• Government (Department of Agriculture Extension) has approved six brands of organic enriched manure for Paddy, Wheat, Tea, Tobacco, Vegetable and Pulse;

• Waste Concern has also prepared and submitted Draft Bio-Medical Waste Handling Rules to DOE.

• Waste Concern is also preparing National Urban Waste Management Rules. This rules shall be submitted to MoEF by second quarter of 2002.

• Scientific monitoring and evaluation of the composting units has been conducted by Dept. of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries (SANDEC),Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland. This evaluation has found  that the composting scheme of Waste Concern under SEMP is an excellent alternative to conventional waste management System of Dhaka. Data on compost production, efficiency of the plants and economic returns from the project  has been done as part of the evaluation jointly by Waste Concern and SANDEC.

• Experiments on organic farming is being conducted in three location (Dhaka, Munshiganj and Bogra) as per PIP. Moreover, experiments has already been conducted by Soil Science Department of Dhaka University and Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI)

• Waste Concern has signed agreement with Map Agro and Prosika for marketing of compost in rural areas of Bangladesh.  Map Agro as well as Prosika has already started marketing of compost in rural areas of Bangladesh using their country wide distribution network.

PRISM (Component 3.3)

Community mobilization:

Mobilization and motivation of the community members and other partner organizations are on going in project area through door to door visit, rally, street drama, group meetings, mass media /electronic media campaign.

Organization Development:

12 Wards formal environment management committee have been formed to ensure the ecofriendly environment in the wards of KCC where we are operating the solid waste management.

Training:

Training module and module of TOT on solid waste management have been developed. Training of Environment management committee members (96 persons) on solid waste management has been completed.

Solid waste management activities:

Solid waste management activities is going on according to the project plan  and after completion of the revised PIP, solid waste management activities and five composting plants  will be operated and installed in 18 selected wards according to the PIP. 300 receptacles i.e. waste bin have been distributed at household level and identification of total household of 18 wards is on going. Experimental small scale solid waste composting plant in ATI  campus has been installed. The partner NGOs are operating the solid waste management very well. The beneficiary community are responding well and the service charge is increasing day by day. The non payers of service charge are also taken initiative to provide the service charge to get a good service. The project peoples are also motivating them for the sustenance of the programme.

Technical assistance:

Technical assistance in operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment plant and solid waste management is on going in the project area.

Monitoring:

Water quality of the wastewater treatment system is being tested in the field and as well as in the environmental laboratory and the test data is preserved. The test data is sometimes cross checked by testing the same sample of water from Dhaka University and ICDDRB’s laboratory. The data found moral less similar to the Dhaka University laboratory and ICDDRB.

The present designated personnel are monitoring the impact of solid waste management which is found good. But for intensive monitoring, an Environment Monitoring officer is joined for overall monitoring of the project intervention.

Meeting, Workshop and Seminar:

• Meetings of  this quarter are as follows
• 2 monthly meeting of the ATI wastewater treatment management committee has been completed instead of three.
• 12  ATI catchment area community group monthly meeting has been conducted instead of 18.
• 6 Community managed solid waste management committee monthly meeting has been completed instead of 9.
• 25 Solid waste environment committee monthly meeting has been conducted

Awareness programme:

• Awareness programme solid waste management (SWM) of educational Institutions, Industry, Bazar, Mosque and hospital/Clinic were conduct.
• High school level awareness programme on SWM = 2 nos.
• Mosque level awareness programme on SWM = 3 nos.
• Bazar level awareness programme on SWM = 2 nos.
• Participated in rally of World Environment Day 2002, organized by Directorate of Environment of Khulna.
• Participated in the Environment Fair in Dhaka and Khulna Organized by DoE.
• Arranged an essay competition for high school boys on Environment to make awareness among them.

Department of Environment (DoE)-Bogra (Component 3.4)

Awareness & Advocacy

Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB) (Component 4.1)

The Forum of Environmental Journalists of Bangladesh (FEJB) (Component 4.2)

Workshops:

Training, Study Tours and Fellowships : 18 number

Report and Documentation:

• Bangladesh State of Environment Report 1998 : 1 issue

• Bangladesh State of Environment Report 1999 : 1 issue

• Bangladesh State of Environment Report 2000 : 1 issue

• Bangladesh Paribeshchitra 1406 : 1 issue

• Bangladesh Paribeshchitra 2000 : 1 issue

• Air Pollution in Asian Cities : 1 issue

• Water and Environment : 1 issue

• Dhaka Nagarer Bipanna Paribesh : 1 issue

• Environmental Economics in Bangladesh : 1 issue

• State of CHT Environment : 1 issue

• State of Bio-diversity : 1 issue

• State of Sundarbans : 1 issue

Newsletters:

• NEMAP-SEMP Newsletter :

  • Bangla : 11 issue

  • English : 11 issue

• WWFJ Newsletters : 3 issue

• CEJA Newsletters : 3 issue

• Environment and Development Newsletters : 5 issue

FEJB-SEMP Report-Stories/Photo Feature : 1031 piece

Environment Page Materials : 769 piece

Earth Files : 11 piece

Unnayan Samunnay (US) (Component 4.3)

•  A simple guideline for assessing/monitoring local environment has been prepared
   

• A flexible format for dialogue has been prepared.
   

• The simple guideline and flexible format have been printed in booklet form with fund mobilized from outside of the project and the booklet is now being distributed among small NGOs, educational institutions and environmental activists.
   

• For assessing environment with people’s participation 4 environment assessment workshops and 4 validation workshops were organized upto December, 2001.
   

• Ten (10) issues of Paribeshpatra and nine (9) issues of Ecofile, environmental quarterly in Bangla and English respectively, have been printed.

• The Paribeshpatra is being distributed among more than 9 thousand educational institutions, NGOs, CBOs.
   

• 60 news features were produced. These news features were published in 33 newspapers.
   

• Two sets of slides were prepared : One on air pollution in Dhaka city and another on solid waste in Dhaka city.
   

• Four Dissemination workshops were organized.
   

• Seven environmental fairs were organized / participated.
   

• Four environmental camps for students were organized.
   

• 27 slide shows on air pollution in Dhaka city were organized. About 1,300 students, teachers, auto-rickshaw drivers, housewives attended these shows.
   

• Two cultural shows on environment were organized
   

• Six citizen’s/students’ group discussions were organized.
   

• Five posters have been published.
   

• Four leaflets have been published.
   

• Two folk songs and one drama on environment.
   

• One photograph exhibition was organized.
   

• Two booklets: on earthquake and interviews of experts were published.
   

• Collaboration with six small NGOs / educational institution.
   

• People’s Report on Bangladesh Environment has been published.
   

• The project activities have generated interest among NGOs, educational institutions and common people. Different organizations at the grass roots level regularly contact us for organizing activities.
   

• A library with focus on environment with more than five thousand books.
   

• Newspaper clippings on different aspects of environment.
   

• A number of national newspapers have used information / news provided by the project.
   

• One NGO has produced a poster on herbal plants with information provided by the project.
   

• University students and journalists regularly use information provided by the project.
   

• Successfully follows qualitative approach for gathering information on environment.
   

• Posters were well received by the all.