National Sanitation Dashboard
Sustainable human waste management is needed to address water scarcity
The National Sanitation Dashboard is a tool to display data related to sanitation in an easy-to-understand format for both technical and non-technical audiences. It helps policymakers monitor the progress of cities in managing on-site sanitation, solid waste, and fecal sludge. The dashboard supports the supervision of safe and efficient waste collection and disposal, and aids in evaluating the most suitable and practical technology options. The dashboard is based on data collected from household surveys, expert interviews, and focus group discussions, providing a comprehensive and reliable source of information.
Bangladesh is the first country to adopt the dashboard and it has been intensively applied to capture profiles of faecal sludge and solid waste management of 54 municipalities and 8 city corporations. The dashboard integrates City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approaches, allowing decision makers to review its outcomes and functions at national and city level.
The National Sanitation Dashboard has sections which cover the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicators, infrastructures, institutional capacity and indicators of solid waste management and on-site sanitation and fecal sludge management. Table below presents available information in the dashboard.
| Overview | |
| SDG Indicators for Sanitation | % of Safely Managed/Basic/Limited/Unimproved/Open defecation |
| General Information | Size of the area/Population/Population Density/Number of Wards |
| Sanitation Profile | Quantitative data for Faecal Sludge (FS) generation/FS collection/FS treatment/FS treatment plant |
| SWM Summary | Quantitative data for SW generation/SW collection/SW treatment/SWTP |
| Infrastructure | |
| Tools used by Conservancy Department | Number of Dustbins/STS/Vacuum Tanker |
| Vehicles used in SWM | Number of compactors/dump trucks/others & trolleys |
| FSM & SWM Infrastructure Map | |
| Institutional Capacity | |
| Human Resources | Number of conservancy officials/waste collectors/pit cleaners/ road collectors/private pit cleaners |
| Sanitation | Shit Flow Diagram |
| Faecal Sludge Life Cycle | |
| Threat to Groundwater Contamination | |
| Containment Accessibility Scenario | |
| Containment Outlet Behavior | |
| Solid Waste Management | Solid Waste Life Cycle |
| Solid Waste Disposal Practice | |
| Indicators | |
| CWIS | Percentage of population with access to improved individual toilets |
| Willingness to pay for toilet improvement in Percentage | |
| Willingness to pay for containment improvement in Percentage | |
| Percentage of accessible containments | |
| Percentage of desludging services completed mechanically or semi-mechanically | |
| Percentage of collected FS disposed at treatment plant or designated disposal sites | |
| Percentage of water contamination compliance | |
| SWM | Percentage of waste segregation at source |
| Percentage of waste collects by van operated by ULB | |
| Percentage of waste collects by van operated by other agencies | |