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Monitoring and targeting the sanitation poor: A multidimensional approach
Author(s) -
GinéGarriga Ricard,
PérezFoguet Agustí
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/1477-8947.12171
Subject(s) - sanitation , context (archaeology) , poverty , variety (cybernetics) , hygiene , sustainable development , business , capability approach , environmental planning , witness , environmental resource management , environmental economics , computer science , economic growth , geography , economics , engineering , political science , environmental engineering , medicine , archaeology , pathology , artificial intelligence , law , programming language
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) are at the core of sustainable development. As we embark on a new round of global goals, namely the Sustainable Development Goals, a top priority is to address a coherent framework for monitoring these services. In the coming years, the sector will witness the development of a variety of multidimensional monitoring measures, albeit from different perspectives. This paper reviews the relevant literature and discusses the adequacy and applicability of one approach that is increasingly adopted for multidimensional poverty measurement at the household level, the Alkire‐Foster methodology. Drawing on this method, we identify and combine a set of direct household‐related water and sanitation deprivations that batter a person at the same time. This new multidimensional measure is useful for gaining a better understanding of the context in which WaSH services are delivered. It captures both the incidence and intensity of WaSH poverty, and provides a new tool to support monitoring and reporting. For illustrative purposes, one small town in Mozambique is selected as the initial case study.