City Desk :
A two-day workshop of the United Nations (UN) Water Global Analysis and Assessment (GLAAS) on Sanitation and Drinking Water ended in the city on Wednesday, marking the launch of ‘TrackFin’ pilot project in Bangladesh.
TrackFin is a method developed by WHO (World Health Organization) to track WASH financing flows at national and sub-national levels, a UNICEF press release said.
TrackFin will produce Bangladesh’s first ever comprehensive national WASH accounts that will estimate expenditures on different sub-categories such as infrastructure, operations and maintenance and tariff. Addressing the workshop, Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Additional Secretary Roxana Quader highlighted the importance of WASH financing for pro-poor, sustainable and accountable services.
Dr Valeria de Oliveira Cruz, WHO acting country representative, congratulated the Bangladesh government for taking timely and necessary task of producing the national WASH accounts and expressed WHO’s commitment for further supporting the WASH sector in Bangladesh. UNICEF country representative Edouard Beigbeder also spoke at the workshop.
A two-day workshop of the United Nations (UN) Water Global Analysis and Assessment (GLAAS) on Sanitation and Drinking Water ended in the city on Wednesday, marking the launch of ‘TrackFin’ pilot project in Bangladesh.
TrackFin is a method developed by WHO (World Health Organization) to track WASH financing flows at national and sub-national levels, a UNICEF press release said.
TrackFin will produce Bangladesh’s first ever comprehensive national WASH accounts that will estimate expenditures on different sub-categories such as infrastructure, operations and maintenance and tariff. Addressing the workshop, Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Additional Secretary Roxana Quader highlighted the importance of WASH financing for pro-poor, sustainable and accountable services.
Dr Valeria de Oliveira Cruz, WHO acting country representative, congratulated the Bangladesh government for taking timely and necessary task of producing the national WASH accounts and expressed WHO’s commitment for further supporting the WASH sector in Bangladesh. UNICEF country representative Edouard Beigbeder also spoke at the workshop.
