Water supply and sanitation sector monitoring report 1990 (baseline year)

This report, distributed by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, presents the results of a collaborative effort between WHO and UNICEF who have joined forces to help developing countries to institute a good quality, high utility value, monitoring programme. In the past, monitoring was a passive process which did not aim to influence sector development. For the 1990s, monitoring is seen as playing a pro-active role by being used as a management tool. To enable such an evolution, a limited number of relevant indicators has to be employed, the frequency of monitoring has to be increased (to at least once a year), and capacity for montioring must be enhanced at all levels. The report begins with a sector overview. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of the core indicators; namely, coverage, management and funding, but other achievements/constraints and activities related to global and regional promotion of the water and sanitation sector are also featured. The report utilizes for the first time a computer monitoring programme, WASAMS, and an analysis of the questionnaires, used by 70 out of 130 countries to assess the status of their sector, and subsequent recommendations are put forward. The final portion of the report offers a conceptual framework for sector professionals, policy and decision makers to facilitate development of pragmatic plans of action from community to national level. It is comprised of a situation analysis of sector policies, estimation of the resource base, selection of technology and strategy options, and setting of sector goals.