Waste Management Model at Dhaka North

What is Waste Management

বর্জ্য ব্যবস্থাপনা কি

Poverty Alleviation

Capacity building and training for both national and international professionals;
Curriculum development, documentation, networking, etc;
Applied and fundamental research and action sociology in environmental sanitation;
Formulation, monitoring and implementation of projects relating to Environmental Sanitation with focus on water, sanitation, health and hygiene;
Consultancy services on issues relating to social, environmental and technological development in the area of environmental sanitation and public health;
Contributing to achieving localized millennium development goals for sanitation among developing countries through knowledge sharing and technology transfer.

Activities

In concurrence with the objectives set, the Academy’s activities mainly include:

Preparation of professionals of national, regional, local and international repute on the issues of water, sanitation, health and hygiene;
Globalization of the appropriate, affordable, eco-friendly and culturally acceptable sanitation technologies to widen the sanitation coverage, particularly to SAARC and other developing countries;
Research and development in water, sanitation, health and hygiene sector;
Social reforms and mobilization;
WASH Campaign involving schools as ‘Agents of Change’ for sanitation and hygiene;
Rehabilitation of women and children of weaker sections through education and vocational training;
Alternative sources of livelihood for liberating scavengers through skill upgradation and up-scaling their capacities for sustainable development;
Awareness generation and creation of demand for safe access to water and sanitation through community participation and participatory democracy.

Core Competence

The Academy envisions as a centre of holistic learning and education in Environmental Sanitation with its core competence broadly categorized to:

Operational Diversification

The Academy’s core competence is well diversified and mainly emphasized on on-site application of innovative sanitation solutions in the areas of:

toilet related sanitation and its application for the utilization of the society at individual household as well as at community levels with unique advantage of on-site disposal of human excreta.
promotion of towns/cities and villages free from open-defecation;
water quality and surveillance;
water conservation through rain water harvesting and wastewater management by recycling and reuse through treatment;
solid waste management including composting;
developing scavenger free towns by alleviating the scavenging community from the menace of manual cleaning of toilets and transform them at par with main-stream of the society;
encouraging school sanitation and creating School Sanitation Clubs as the children, the future citizens of society, are the agents of change for promoting safe sanitation movement.