Pakistan Conference on Sanitation(PACOSAN)

May 28th – 29th, 2009at Serena Hotel, Islamabad

 

The Pakistan Safe Drinking Water and Hygiene Promotion Project is aimed at improving the health and well-being of millions of Pakistanis without access to safe drinking water. This USAID-funded project is being implemented in partnership with the Government of Pakistan's Ministry of Industries, Production & Special Initiatives. Technical assistance will be provided in hygiene and sanitation promotion and community mobilization along with extensive capacity building, complementing the Government of Pakistan's substantial investments in hardware for safe drinking water.

The Facts
The mortality rate for children under-five in Pakistan is 101 deaths per 1000 children. Water and sanitation related diseases are responsible for 60% of the total number of child mortality cases in Pakistan, with diarrheal diseases estimated at killing over 200,000 under-five years' children, every year. The combination of unsafe water consumption and poor hygiene practices causes hardship due to resultant high costing treatments for water borne illnesses, decreased working days, and also contributes to lowering of educational achievement due to reduced school attendance by children.

PARTNERS

This project is implemented by Abt Associates in partnership with:
Academy for Educational Development, the QED Group, MWH Global, and the Institute for Sustainable Communities.

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U.S Government and Government of Pakistan Sign MOU to Support Clean Drinking Water Project 

The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Government of Pakistan, through the Ministry of Special Initiatives, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support the Pakistani Government’s Clean Drinking Water Project.

Cleanliness for Robust Lifestyle [January, 2009]
Forty year old Muhammad Ibrahim, a small time shop keeper at Belo Village in Sindh remained much worried for his children's health when he often saw the neighbors kids suffering from acute diarrhea and gastro infections. "Seeing them ill made me upset and one day my own daughter fell prey to this disease.
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Clean Hands Better Health [December, 2008]
On a Tuesday morning, the blazing sun is rising high when Fahmida lifts her jerry can and sets towards the nearby filtration plant to fetch some water. Fahmida Qadir, a volunteer for the project, used to spend most of her time at home caring for one of her five children because they so often used to be sick with diarrhea or some other ailment.
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Safe Water for Life

[December 2008]
Once a week Daad Muhammad packs up his donkey cart with jerry cans and plastic water bags and travels from Sheetam, his small village in Turbut, Baluchistan, to a water filtration plant 5 kilometers away at a place called Singhanisar, to get clean water for his family.
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