Organizational Background

iDE is dedicated to creating income and livelihood opportunities for the rural poor, one of the first organizations to unlock the power of markets to fight poverty. iDE designs and delivers market-based solutions in agriculture and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in 11 countries across Asia, Africa, and Central America. iDE believes that entrepreneurs can be found everywhere and that through design and innovation, they can have the opportunity to build a better world for themselves, their families, and their communities. iDE Bangladesh is the oldest iDE country program having operated continuously since 1982.

Project Background

Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has made great strides toward ending open defecation. In 2000, according to JMP statistics, 21% of Bangladeshis in rural areas practiced open defecation; that figure had fallen to zero by 2017. However, while communities were pushed to abandon open defecation, they were never made aware of the importance of investing in and using improved sanitation facilities.

In addition, poor coordination and weak linkages in the private sector meant that households found it difficult or impossible to access high-quality sanitation products and services even when they wanted to. As a result, over 53% of rural Bangladeshis still did not have access to high-quality, improved latrines that separate waste from the environment and mitigate some of the most serious negative health impacts from poor sanitation conditions. The SanMarkS II project enables around 1.2 million poor and disadvantaged people in 35 districts to gain access to improved latrines. The Project envisions to achieve this by conducting different implementation activities which engage, build capacity and help establish commercial linkage of sanitation value chain actors. As a result of the project, funded by the Embassy of Switzerland and UNICEF and implemented by iDE, private sector service providers in collaboration with public actors will respond to the needs and demand of the rural poor thereby providing improved sanitation services. These solutions will be scaled up to ensure economic, social, and health benefits as communities gain access and adopt improved latrines through locally based Project trained latrine producers (LPs).

We are currently seeking Field Research Assistants to support the LPs Graduation process across different Districts within which the SanMarkS II Project is currently being implemented. The position will help the project team to interview the LPs, collect their GPS coordinates and other data relevant to their economic status, work and experience, take photos, data entry, check, and verification.

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Deadline: 5:00 pm BST on 24th May 2025.