The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, has published its first report of the SDG period, Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and SDG baselines.
The report introduces and defines the new indicators of safely managed drinking water and sanitation services. Estimates of safely managed drinking water services, the indicator for SDG target 6.1, are presented for 96 countries, while estimates are provided for safely managed sanitation services (target 6.2) for 84 countries. SDG target 6.2 also includes hygiene, and the JMP has rebranded itself as the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene. This first SDG report presents data on the availability of handwashing facilities with soap and water in the home for 70 countries.
The newly updated JMP website, www.washdata.org, allows visitors to interactively access the full dataset, and download individual country files which include all of the data used to produce the estimates.
The 2017 JMP report is available in Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish on the JMP website.