Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene

Pages
140 pp
Date published
14 Jun 2019
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, Health, Water, sanitation and hygiene
Organisations
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO)
Link
https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/jmp-report-2019/en/

The World Health Organisation and United Nations Children’s Fund (WHO/UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) produces internationally comparable estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and is responsible for global monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets related to WASH. This report presents updated national, regional and global estimates for WASH in households for the period 2000-2017.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development commits UN member states to take bold and transformative steps to ‘shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path’, ‘realise the human rights of all’, ‘end poverty in all its forms’, and ensure ‘no one will be left behind’. The UN General Assembly will conduct its first quadrennial review of progress in September 2019. This report assesses progress in reducing inequalities in household WASH services and identifies the populations most at risk of being ‘left behind’.