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Shushilan’s aim is to ensure effective utilization of the potential water resources of this region to ensure livelihood security of the coastal people. The south west coastal region particularly Shyamnagar and Ashashuni upazilas of Satkhira district are ecologically highly saline. Safe drinking water scarcity is very acute. The objective of the programme is to provide safe drinking water for the community peoples of those areas.
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Advancing Sustainable Environmental Health (ASEH) Traininigs WaterAid Bangladesh and Partner Organisations Trainings July - September, 2007
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| Name of Training/Orientation
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(days) | Participants (Nos.) | Remarks | Male
| Female
| Total
| 1
| Imam, Youth leader Orientation on Watsan activities
| 1 | 60
| 0
| 60
| For Imam at community level
| 2
| Leadership training to CBO members
| 2 | 268
| 185
| 453 | For Swa-Unnayan committee members/CBO leaders | 3
| Orientation to School Teacher on School Hygiene Promotion | 1
| 77
| 25
| 102
| For Community participants/beneficiaries | 4
| Rooted Advocacy Training | 2
| 117 | 83
| 200
| For Community participants/beneficiaries | 5
| Mason training on PSF and RWHS | 3
| 10
| 10
| 13
| For Community participants/beneficiaries | 6
| Caretaker training on water options | 1
| 45
| 34
| 79
| For Community participants/beneficiaries | 7
| Training on Solid waste management through composting
| 1
| 16
| 4
| 20
| For Community participants/beneficiaries | 8
| Rooted Advocacy Training for staff | 2
| 36
| 6
| 42
| 29 from Shushilan and 11 from other POs as well as 2 observer participants from WaterAid Bangladesh | 9
| Training on Hygiene Promotion for Community Volunteer | 2
| 10
| 35
| 45 | For CV | 10
| HP session facilitation skill refresher training | 2
| 95
| 34
| 129
| For staff | 11
| Foundation training for staff | 6
| 23
| 7
| 30
| For staff | | | Total
| | 757 | 413 | 1170 | |
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Fish culture is one of the major Income Generating Activities (IGAs) in this region but it is not practiced in most of the small ponds. Institutive has been taken to promote fish culture activities through mobilizing local resources and incorporating indigenous knowledge. Eight to ten farmers having small ponds are organized into groups and provided with training on modern fish culture technologies. The farmers are of 3 categories i.e. |
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Due to extreme salinity caused by unplanned shrimp cultivation, there is acute shortage of safe drinking water in the coastal area. A woman or a child has to collect sweet drinking water covering a distance of 3-4 miles. Shushilan has taken following initiatives for supply of safe drinking water to the people of the southwest coastal region: |
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Extensive large scale shrimp culture has been initiated in this region since 1980. Water management is the prerequisite for shrimp culture. In the Third Fisheries Project (TFP) initiated by the Government, some canals were excavated/re-excavated to develop community based water management in some of the coastal shrimp polders. But the activities of TFP failed to achieve the expected results. Another pilot project named Fourth Fisheries Project (FFP) is taken in the shrimp polders to complete and revive the laps and gaps of TFP. Out of four polders, Shushilan has been working in two polders: |
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