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Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities

Dimension Economy
Sub-Dimension Infrastructure
Category Water and Sanitation
KPI Name Household Sanitation
KPI No. EC: I: WS: 5C Type: Core Type: Sustainable

Definition / Percentage of households with access to basic sanitation facilities
Description

Rationale / The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme defines access to water supply and
Interpretation / sanitation in terms of the types of technology and levels of service afforded. Basic
Benchmarking sanitation facilities are able to maintain certain levels of hygiene and ensure that
humans do not come in direct contact with human excreta. To be effective, facilities
must be correctly constructed and properly maintained. Basic facilities include:
▪ Flush or pour-flush to piped sewer system, septic tank or pit latrine;
▪ Ventilated improved pit latrine;
▪ Pit latrine with slab; and
▪ Composting toilet.
Access to adequate excreta disposal facilities is an important requirement if
adverse health effects of poor sanitation are to be avoided. This indicator thus
provides a measurement of both the potential exposure of the population to
infectious agents associated with poor sanitation, and of the action taken to
improve domestic sanitation.
The indicator can be used:
i. to help target and plan efforts to improve access to sanitation and to monitor
progress of such measures;
ii. to assess levels of social inequality and deprivation; and
iii. to help investigate the link between sanitary conditions and specific health
effects.
Good sanitation is important for urban and rural populations, but the risks are
greater in urban areas where contact with waste is more difficult to avoid.
An improving trend and higher values are considered positive.
Source(s) Integrated Monitoring Guide for SDG 6 - UN Water 2016. Retrieved from
<http://www.unwater.org/publications/integrated-monitoring-guide-sdg-6/>
Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and Sustainable
Development Goal baselines. Retrieved from <https://washdata.org/report/jmp-
2017-report-launch-version0> (also available at:
<http://www.unwater.org/publication_categories/whounicef-joint-monitoring-
programme-for-water-supply-sanitation-hygiene-jmp/>
Methodology Calculate as:
Numerator: Total number of city households with access to basic sanitation and
facilities.
Denominator: Total number of city households.
Multiply by 100
Unit Percentage
Data Sources/ WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation
Relevant Databases https://www.wssinfo.org/
SDG Reference(s) SDG Indicator 6.2.1: Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation
services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water.

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