Planning and Development Research

  CHAPTER-01: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project Background The growth of urban population in Bangladesh has outpaced the growth of necessary public services including the water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management. The gap between the demand of these public services and the supply provisions might increase further as experts have warned that by 2060 the population of Bangladesh might be 230 million (before it stabilizes) of which 70 percent would be living in the urban settlements. Currently, 35 percent of the population of Bangladesh has concentrated in the urban areas which constitute about 20 percent of the country’s habitable area and thus population density in urban areas are very high. The situation is further worsened due to higher poverty rates in these urban areas. The Asian Development Bank estimated that of the 157.90 million population of Bangladesh, 31.5 percent live below the national poverty line (ADB, 2016). According to the latest estimates, among the u

  The growth of urban population in Bangladesh has outpaced the growth of necessary public services including the water supply, sanitation and solid waste management which intern negatively affect the livability of major cities in Bangladesh, especially in slums. In Rangpur city, a significant portion of poor slum dwellers live in very challenging environment. However, there are opportunities to provide the poor slum dwellers/low income consumers with safe water, sanitation, and waste management services under a planned intervention. This assessment is conceived by the UNICEF and Rangpur City Corporation where HRDF & PASS would like to come forward with its expertise to assist the knowledge service procuring entity. The goal of the assessment is to provide information and evidence base for developing a City wide WASH Master Plan for the low-income settlements/slums of Rangpur city. This has been done through preparation of a GIS base map with WASH database; identification of gaps a