Revitalisation of Community Health Care Initiative in Bangladesh (RCHICB) is the GoB project, under MoHFW, launched in 2009, to revitalise the community clinics project which started in 1998 but closed in 2001 until 2008 due to change of Government. The project was revitalised in 2009 with previous Government back in power1. It was supposed to end in Dec 2014 but extended until June 2015 to allow its full mainstreaming into the MoHFW HPNSDP under DGHS Community Based Health Care Operational Plan. Its aim was to ensure provision of services at the door step of the rural community2.
SRC (The Swiss Red Cross) works based on seven fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality. In Bangladesh, has been engaging in projects to improve the health situation of the population in resourcepoor, marginalized communities since the early 70-es, with the focus to reduce vulnerability to health hazards especially of the poor and marginalised. In the past decade, the SRC county programme undertook a methodological and conceptual shift from participatory, communitybased self-help approaches in health (water and sanitation, health and hygiene promotion, mother and child health) to integrated development cooperation based on the linkage between and strengthening of local government institutions and communities.
DASCOH (Development Association for Self-reliance, Communication and Health) is a non-government and non-profit organization, accords primacy to utilizing local knowledge and resources of the people at grassroots for its development initiatives. It has developed a trained and professional workforce and acquired capacities through its works for participatory and adaptive decision making. DASCOH closely engages and collaborates with local government institutions (LGIs) and has developed and applied proven strategies to augment institutional capacity of LGIs for effective and result oriented partnership.
Currently, it operates six projects, namely Sustainable Solution for the Delivery of Safe Drinking Water (SDSD), Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Vulnerable Barind Tract Communities in Naogaon and Rajshahi Districts, Public Health Improvement Initiative in Rajshahi (PHIIR), Horizontal Learning Hub (Setu) Chapai Nawabganj, Hygiene, Sanitation Water Supply (HYSAWA) Project as Support Organisation and Training Organisation, and an Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) project in the two districts of Rajshahi and Chapai Nawabganj.
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