Development of integrated assessment tool for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in non-household settings under climate change context.

ABSTRACT: Access to improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services is crucial in recognizing human rights to water and sanitation and due to their impacts on education, livelihoods, and human health. However, these services are often inadequate in non-household settings such as prisons, refugee camps, schools, and healthcare facilities. Progress in monitoring to ensure sustainable services in these settings has been limited. Although several tools are available to assess WASH services in both household and non-household settings, they have limitations, and none has taken a holistic approach to evaluate WASH performance in all non-household settings. Furthermore, the impacts of climate change on WASH services are rarely considered in these evaluations, making the inadequacies of WASH service

SUBMITTER: Win CZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11416291 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature