Progress on Household Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene | 2000-2017

Special focus on inequalities' assesses progress made at national, regional and global levels in reducing inequalities in WASH services.

The World Health Organization 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 Goal targets related to WASH. The JMP has recently published global baseline reports on WASH in schools (2018) and WASH in health care facilities (2019).

This report, Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2017: Special focus on inequalities' assesses progress made at national, regional and global levels in reducing inequalities in WASH services presents updated national, regional and global estimates for WASH in households for the period 2000-2017. It includes in-depth analysis of inequalities between and within countries and identifies the populations most at risk of being left behind.

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