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Health Policy and Planning; 6(2): 176-180
© 1991

case-report

Maintaining village water pumps by women volunteers in Bangladesh

BILQIS AMIN HOQUE1, KMA AZIZ2, ZAHID HASAN3 and MK PATWARY4

1Community Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh
2Community Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh
3Community Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh
4Researcher, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh

Correspondence: Dr BA Hoque, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, GPO Box 128 Dhaka - 1000, Bangladesh

Sixty-three women in the district of Mirzapur, Bangladesh, were trained as voluntary pump caretakers using 21 Tara handpumps. They received 6 hours classroom training and 2 hours of practical training. When evaluated over a 15-month period the pumps maintained by the women volunteers functioned as well as those maintained by trained pump mechanics. These findings are significant as an indication of how rural water supply can be sustained and integrated with women's own development.


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