Give People Access to Clean Water

4^th Quarterly Report

on

Access to Clean Water for Coastal People (in Bangladesh) Program

Implementing by

Nowabenki Gonomukhi Foundation (NGF)

Duration: Oct.-Dec. 2017

1.0 Introduction

The “Clean Water for Coastal People (in Bangladesh) Program” has been running smoothly though there is scope to further development. The number of beneficiaries and the geographical coverage of the program remain the same as was in the last quarter. The summer season is coming so there will be additional need of clean water at that time. Now we are producing around 40 thousand liters of clean water every day through six desalination plants located at six different places and distributing it among more than 2000 households. We are distributing more than 68% of our production at free of cost. Storage and transport facilities is an urgent need of the project.

2.0 Activities

In the last quarter (Oct-Dec, 2017) we have carried out the production and distribution of clean water as we do normally. In this quarter, we have taken a decision to arrange more awareness campaign in the 1^st quarter of 2018. We have also decided to print a leaflet to use it as a tool to aware our target group.

The objectives of the campaign will be the same as was in previous campaign (Jul-Aug 2017) - to make them aware of the available source of safe water or how they can clean water at household level with minimum efforts, second, the importance of safe water in everyday household practices. The target group will be educated on the relation between use of clean water and household health, its impacts on the productivity/economic activities.

3.0 Analysis of production and distribution of water

In the current reporting period (4^th quarter of 2017) 1.2 million liters of clean water has been produced on an average in each month (Table1) under the program. In this period, production of clean water has been decreased slightly (0.23%) but the free distribution of clean water has been increased by 1.6% (Table 1 & 3). However, in this quarter 3.6 million liters of clean water has been produced under the program, of which 2.45 million liters has been distributed at free of cost, and more than 1.16 liters of water has been sold. However, income from selling water has been decreased slightly by $107 (0.24%) and expenditure by $2 in this period (Table2 & 3).

4.0 Staff strength

The staff strength of the program remains the same as in the last quarter. For details please see the 2^nd quarter report.

5.0 The challenges

The challenges of the program remain more or less the same. It needs to generate more revenue to meet up its administrative costs. To make the program a centralized water supply system, the program needs more staff, set up delivery points and procure a supply van that is why we are continuing our fundraising campaign.

6.0The future plan

To achieve our target (that is stated in the campaign document) we are running the fundraising campaign. If we are successful, we will strengthen the capacity of delivery system so that we can supply the water at the door steps of the beneficiaries. At the same time we will try to sell more water to the nearest markets to generate more revenue as there is a great need of clean water.

PLEASE NOTE: Full report with pictures is given in the attachment.

• 4th Quarterly Report on Access to Clean Water (DOCX)