Maintaining village water pumps by women volunteers in Bangladesh

Maintaining village water pumps by women volunteers in 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 w...

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Veröffentlicht in:Health policy and planning 1991-06, Vol.6 (Jun 91), p.176-180
Hauptverfasser: Hoque, B A, Hasan, Z, Aziz, K M A, Patwary, M K
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Bangladesh
Maintenance
Pumps
Training
Villages
Water supplies
Women
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Zusammenfassung: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. (Abstract amended)
ISSN:0268-1080