
Eau et Vie – A WASH integrated approach for urban poor in Bangladesh (Water and Sanitation)
Eau et Vie (E&V) and its local NGO, Water and Life (W&L), in association with the social enterprise Shobar Jonno Pani (SJP), bundle water, sanitation and associated services (solid waste management, hygiene, and firefighting) for low-income households in urban non-sewered communities. The organization acts as a ‘mini-utility’ that connects households to piped and metered water from legal municipal connections, and provides access to improved sanitation through the rehabilitation of the existing drain, existing latrines as well as the construction of sanitary blocks or single latrines.
Over the project period, Eau et Vie has scaled up its sanitation services (in Bhashantek, Dhaka and 9NB, Chattogram), developed a social marketing and a behaviour change strategy and reflected on its exit strategy once the social business will be financially viable.