IFC supports Dhaka's first PPP wastewater management project
The industrial city of Gazipur, near Dhaka, will develop a wastewater and sludge treatment system with private sector participation in two of its urban zones, in a first-of-its-kind initiative.
The move follows the signing of an agreement between the International Finance Corporation and the Public-Private Partnership Authority of Bangladesh to provide transaction advisory services to help set up a wastewater management system in Gazipur and Tongi areas of Gazipur City Corporation.
With an estimated cost of $82 million, the pilot project will include a sewerage network of nearly 137km, two sewage treatment plants of about 56 million liters per day cumulative capacity, mechanical desludging of septic tanks, and transportation of fecal sludge to three treatment plants. The aim is to treat domestic sewage that will benefit nearly 230,000 households.
The project was the result of a three-year effort by the Bangladesh Water Multi Stakeholder Partnership, which is being facilitated by the 2030 Water Resources Group, a public-private-civil society multi-donor trust fund hosted by the World Bank Group.
