WASH data (JMP and beyond)

WASH in Households in odd years WASH in Schools and Health Care Facilities in even years
2017 2018 2019

2019 2020 2020

2021 2022 2022

2023

Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC)

Household Update Monday 20 March 2023 washdata.org
Rick Johnston ([email protected])

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Definitions matter (at least for indicators)
SDG target Target text Global indicators
By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the
Proportion of population living in households with
vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to
access to basic services
1.4 Basic services basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property,
inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial
[includes basic drinking water, sanitation and hygiene]
services, including microfinance
Coverage of essential health services
Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access
3.8 Universal health
to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality [includes basic sanitation]
coverage
and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe

3.9 Burden of By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from
sanitation and lack of hygiene (exposure to unsafe
disease hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) services)
By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable Proportion of population using safely managed
6.1 Drinking water
drinking water for all drinking water services
Proportion of population using safely managed
By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene sanitation services
6.2 Sanitation and
for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of
hygiene
women and girls and those in vulnerable situations Proportion of population with access to handwashing
facilities with soap and water in the home
 Global indicators
• JMP mandate • Health care facilities
– Global monitoring – Water, sanitation, hygiene
• Representativeness (3 levels)
• Comparability, harmonization – Waste management
• Service ladders – Environmental cleaning
– Drinking water (5 levels) • Schools
– Sanitation (5 levels) – Water, sanitation, hygiene
– Hygiene (3 levels) (3 levels)

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 SERVICE LEVEL DEFINITION

Drinking water from an improved water source

that is located on premises, available when needed
SAFELY MANAGED
and free from faecal and priority chemical
contamination
Drinking water from an improved source, provided
BASIC collection time is not more than 30 minutes for a
round trip, including queuing
Drinking water from an improved source for which
LIMITED collection time exceeds 30 minutes for a round
trip, including queuing
Drinking water from an unprotected dug well or
UNIMPROVED
unprotected spring

Drinking water directly from a river, dam, lake,

SURFACE WATER
pond, stream, canal or irrigation canal
Note: Improved sources include: piped water, boreholes or tubewells,
protected dug wells, protected springs, rainwater, and packaged or
delivered water.

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 SERVICE LEVEL DEFINITION

Use of improved facilities that are not shared with

other households and where excreta are safely
SAFELY MANAGED
disposed of in situ or transported and treated
offsite
Use of improved facilities that are not shared with
BASIC
other households

Use of improved facilities that are not shared with

LIMITED
other households

Use of pit latrines without a slab or platform,

UNIMPROVED
hanging latrines or bucket latrines
Disposal of human faeces in fields, forests, bushes,
OPEN DEFECATION open bodies of water, beaches or other open
paces, or with solid waste
Note: improved facilities include flush/pour flush to piped sewer systems,
septic tanks or pit latrines; ventilated improved pit latrines, composting
toilets or pit latrines with slabs.

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 SERVICE LEVEL DEFINITION

Availability of a handwashing facility on premises

BASIC
with soap and water

Availability of a handwashing facility on premises

LIMITED
without soap and water

NO FACILITY No handwashing facility on premises

Note: Handwashing facilities may be fixed or mobile and include a sink

with tap water, buckets with taps, tippy-taps, and jugs or basins
designated for handwashing. Soap includes bar soap, liquid soap, powder
detergent, and soapy water but does not include ash, soil, sand or other
handwashing agents.

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Core questions and indicators

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Basic water, sanitation coverage among 136 LMICS

Drinking water from an

improved source,
provided collection time
is not more than 30
minutes for a round trip,
including queuing

Use of improved facilities that are

not shared with other households

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 Drinking water quality in household surveys
2022
2023
2020 2021
2018 2019
2012-2015 2016-17
(Afghanistan ALCS)
2012-13 Côte d’Ivoire MICS DRC MICS Algeria MICS Côte d’Ivoire DHS Benin MICS Ecuador ENEMDU Afghanistan MICS
Bangladesh MICS DPRK MICS Gambia MICS Bangladesh MICS Guyana MICS Eswatini MICS Trinidad and Tobago Argentina MICS
Indonesia SKAM-RT MICS Azerbaijan MICS
Ghana LSS Ecuador ENEDMU Georgia MICS CAR MICS Fiji MICS
Kosovo MICS Belize MICS
Ethiopia ESS Ghana MICS Chad MICS Mozambique DHS Burkina Faso NORM
2014-15 Malawi MICS
Lao PDR SIS Iraq MICS Dominican Nigeria NORM Ethiopia DHS
Congo MICS Republic MICS Samoa MICS FSM MICS
Lebanon National Kiribati MICS Sri Lanka HIES
Nepal MICS Guinea-Bissau State of Palestine Guatemala DHS
(Mongolia MICS) Lesotho MICS MICS Tanzania NPS
(Pakistan MICS) MICS Laos SIS
(Belize MICS6 Pilot) Nigeria MICS Madagascar MICS Turks and Caicos Viet Nam MICS Lebanon MICS
Honduras MICS MICS
Paraguay MICS Mongolia MICS Nauru MICS
Nepal MICS Tuvalu MICS Nicaragua MICS
Philippines APIS Suriname MICS
Nigeria NORM Somalia MICS
Senegal EEAH Tunisia MICS Sudan MICS
Sao Tome and
Sierra Leone MICS Principe MICS Tunisia MICS
Togo MICS Tonga MICS Turkmenistan MICS
Uganda DHS
Zimbabwe MICS Vanuatu MICS

https://washdata.org/reports/integrating-water-quality-testing-household-surveys

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 Global database
• Household surveys
– Maybe one every 2-3 years, takes a
long time for data to be published
– Moderate resolution
• Censuses
– Usually every 10 years, takes a long
time for data to be published
– Limited WASH variables
– High resolution
• Administrative data
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 Disaggregations
• Urban/Rural
• Wealth quintiles
• Sub-national regions
– IHME 5x5 km grids
– DHS exploratory analysis
– JMP inequalities files: roughly admin1

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https://washdata.org/data/downloads

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 Other data
• DRR • INGO/civil society • Administrative
– REACH/MSNA – mWater – Infrastructure
– HeRAMS – AKVO inventories
– Water Severity – Citizen science, – Disease
Classification crowdsourcing… surveillance

https://www.reachresourcecentre.info/
theme/multi-sector-assessments/

https://www.who.int/initiatives/herams

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Thank
you!