Mohammad Refatul Islam

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About 20 years of experiences in rural and urban water resources and environmental sanitation facilities implementation in Bangladesh. Planning and Designing of rural and urban water supply and environmental sanitation facilities considering the users choice, affordability, available water source and sustainability right from the selection of site, evaluation of requirements, architectural drawing and design of the toilet.

 

Experienced in sanitation marketing as an approach that applies to increase the consumer demand for quality sanitation products and services, through building the capacity of local sanitation service providers to supply improved products and services. This approach work engaging private sector actors to address the sanitation gap for rural/urban customers

 

Experiences in designing, construction, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of different types of household and community based water supply and waste disposal technologies. The water supply technologies includes Mini Pipeline Water Supply System, Gravity Flow System (GFS) in hilly areas, Arsenic and Iron removal Plant, Household based rainwater harvesting system, community based rainwater harvesting system, Pond Sand Filter (PSF) one type of surface water treatment plant, ring well and dug well, deep tube well and deep set pump. Well equipped in performing field level water quality testing using different field kits. Experienced in collecting water samples from different source under different piloting and Action research project on different house hold and community based safe water supply options. Performed water quality testing result analysis and provide necessary feed back and prepared report on this test result.

 

Grant management at local government level, procurement following public procurement rules of government, programme management, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building of local government institutions/grassroots institution, DRR and climate change adaptation program. Preparing project proposal, appraisal, periodical and project completion report etc.

 

I have obtained            Diploma in Integrated Environment and Water Management (IEWM) from DHI (Danish Hydraulic Institute) Water & Environment, Horsholm, Denmark in 2008. I have a publication in Beyond Construction, published by Water supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council; IRC; WaterAid-2009.   Topics “Use of Human Excreta” , a collection of case studies from sanitation and hygiene promotion practitioners in South Asia. Beside this, I have successfully completed two (02) assignments of UNICEF Bangladesh as a senior consultant on Renovation of Gravity Flow System in Rangamati and Banderban districts in 2009.

 

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Industry experience

Education: Bachelor

Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant

Years of experience: 10 to 20 years

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