Using a life-cycle approach to target WASH policies and programmes in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

„ „ The geographic and socio-economic and life-cycle targeting approaches complement each other and should be used together in explicitly addressing barriers, strategies and benefits. In 2015, at the close of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) period, 2.4 billion people lacked improved sanitation facilities and almost 700 million still used unimproved sources of drinking water. Despite several decades of concerted efforts taken by several nations and international agencies to provide basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and facilities, progress was slow and intermittent.