Households Basic Water

Indicator Name

% of supported households reporting access to a basic drinking water service over the project specified time period

Indicator ID in PRIME

IN00023159

Definition

Definition

This indicator measures the proportion of households with access to a basic drinking water service (as defined by WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene) out of the total number of households in the project area over a specified time period.

Note: Improved water sources are those that have the potential to deliver safe water by nature of their design and construction, and include: piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, rainwater, and packaged or delivered water.
Specified Time Period: means the most recent data available during the project period.

Numerator

Number of households within the Save the Children program that have access to a Basic Water service

Denominator

Total number of households within the Save the Children program

Recommended Means of Verification

Annual household survey using JMP recommended ‘core’ questions to facilitate monitoring of WASH targets can be accessed at https://washdata.org/report/jmp-2018-core-questions-household-surveys or program monitoring data with number of households within the Save the Children program that have access to a Basic Water service and total number of households within the Save the Children program

Indicator Attributes

Indicator Prioritisation

Global Indicator

Level of Indicator

Outcome

Indicator Context Type

Quantitative

Theme

Health & Nutrition

Sub Theme

WASH

Cross-Cutting Themes

Migration & Displacement

Total Reach Indicator

No

Context

Development

Measurement GuidanceĀ 

Frequency of Data Collection

Annually

Unit of Measure

Households

Data Format

Percent

Direction of Desired Change

Increasing

Number of Decimal Points

Zero

Indicator is Rounding

No

Nature

Cumulative

Recommended Disaggregations

Settlement, Migration Status
This guidance was prepared by Sheetal Rahi Lookhar ©

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