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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
Interpretation / and sanitation in terms of the types of technology and levels of service afforded.
Benchmarking Basic 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
• 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 the potential exposure of the population to infectious
agents associated with poor sanitation, and also 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) NOTE 1 – Integrated Monitoring Guide for SDG 6 - UN Water 2016. Retrieved from
<http:// www .unwater .org/ publications/ integrated -monitoring -guide -sdg -6/ >

NOTE 2 – Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and
Sustainable Development Goal baselines. Retrieved from <http:// www .unwater
.org/ publication _categories/ whounicef -joint -monitoring -programme -for -water
-supply -sanitation -hygiene -jmp/ >

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