Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha (SSKS) has actively taken initiative to organize Wash Alliance or Forum just couple of year behind to address the Wash related problems to the community levels. Finally, it comes into existence as a Bangladesh Wash Forum where SSKS act as a Vice President of the Forum. The Forum has the long prelude and in a sense we are trying out to briefly explain now. The Bangladesh Wash Forum (BWF) is a NGO platform across the country that shares expertise on water sanitation and hygiene promotion. It has been formed from the premise that water sanitation is a major phenomenon of the twenty-first century, with impact at local and national levels. The Bangladesh Wash Forum includes all those grassroots NGOs who are working on the topic of water sanitation with the aim of examining in depth the needs of people who find themselves in the particular situation of WASH from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. WASH can enrich societies, but it can also give rise to challenges for both individuals involved in the water sanitation process and governments and non-governmental organizations with stakes in the process. The Bangladesh Wash Forum analyzes and informs on all these aspects. In connection with moreover 50 grassroots Bangladeshi NGOs are deeply involved with this Forum and working on the issue at different geographic context in Bangladesh. Commonly, this includes the construction or repair of water points and latrines, training, solid waste management and drainages are also sometimes included. Over time, water, sanitation and hygiene promotion WASH has become one of our core sectors. The Bangladesh Wash Forum (BWF) brings together a dynamic group of water sanitation scholars from a range of fields across the country. This is an exciting initiatives and journey that brings together interdisciplinary perspectives and enables innovative and ground breaking endeavors. As a collaborative initiative, the mission of the Bangladesh Wash Forum is to support the sharing of knowledge and awareness raising practices; to find links between supposedly different approaches to the study of water sanitation, such as those between environmental causes for Wash and economic consequences; to inform policy on matters related to human security; to promote comparative regional perspectives on water sanitation issues; to consider patterns of internal Wash problems; to jointly influence governments or regions; It also contributes to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and particularly to BWF’s role as a policy-influencing body. It further acts as a vehicle for good initiatives and local practice to be discussed more widely. It offers a forum for the development of new synergies between BWF’s Institutes in order to both create and spread cutting edge research. This Forum intends to provide both the general public and stakeholders with easy access to information on the results obtained through the Forum action based programs and subsequent policy recommendations, as well as to communications about its past, ongoing and upcoming events
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