Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation : 2014 update.
Material type: TextPublisher: Albany : World Health Organization, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (77 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789240692817Subject(s): Drinking water -- Standards | Millennium Development GoalsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation : 2014 updateDDC classification: 628.16 LOC classification: KF27 -- .P76 2014ebOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- SECTION A: PROGRESS UPDATE -- Global drinking water coverage and trends, 1990-2012 -- Regional drinking water coverage and increase since 1990 -- An alternative indicator of progress -- Progress towards the MDG drinking water target -- Global sanitation coverage and trends, 1990-2012 -- Regional sanitation coverage and increase since 1990 -- Progress towards the MDG sanitation target -- Trends in open defecation, 1990-2012 -- Call to action on sanitation -- SECTION B: HIGHLIGHTING INEQUALITIES -- Visualizing inequalities -- Subnational inequalities -- Urban and rural inequalities -- Urban-Rural Gap Analysis -- Inequalities within urban areas -- Inequalities within rural areas -- Inequalities based on wealth -- Quintile Gap Analysis -- Inequalities faced by marginalized and excluded groups or persons -- Ethnicity, language and religion -- Education -- Intra-household inequalities -- The challenge of monitoring intra-household inequalities -- Conclusions -- SECTION C: A FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING WASH POST-2015 -- Universal access to basic services -- Safely managed services -- Safely managed drinking water services - recommendations of the Water Quality Task Force -- Safely managed sanitation services - data gaps to be addressed -- Expanding the WASH monitoring framework -- Data evolution and revolution -- New priorities for monitoring -- ANNEXES -- Annex 1: The JMP method -- Annex 2: Millennium Development Goals: regional groupings -- Annex 3: Country, area or territory estimates on sanitation and drinking water -- Annex 4: Trends in urban and rural drinking water coverage, 1990-2012 -- Annex 5: Trends in urban and rural sanitation coverage, 1990-2012.
This 2014 update report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation known as the JMP is split in three sections. The first section presents the status of and trends in access to improved drinking water sources and sanitation. The second section provides a snapshot of inequalities in access to improved drinking water sources and sanitation. The final section presents efforts to strengthen monitoring of access to safe drinking water and sanitation services under a post-2015 development agenda as well as the challenges associated with these efforts. Annexes at the back of the report provide supplementary information on the JMP method MDG regional groupings data tables and trend figures.
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