The 2023 WHO/UNICEF report focuses on gender inequalities in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. It presents data on women's burden of water collection, safety concerns related to lack of sanitation, and menstrual health. It also highlights the need to consider access to WASH services as a gender issue.
Author(s): Jorge Bica (UNICEF), Christie Chatterley (independent consultant), Ayça Dönmez (UNICEF), Rick Johnston (WHO), Francesco Mitis (WHO) and Tom Slaymaker (UNICEF)
Published: 2023
Language: English
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The 2023 WHO/UNICEF JMP report on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene has a special focus on gender, and provides the first in-depth analysis of gender inequalities in WASH services. The report presents new sex-disaggregated data on the burden of water collection, as well as perceptions of safety outside the household after dark among men and women without private sanitation facilities. Emerging indicators on menstrual health are highlighted, including national data from 53 countries. And while not sex-disaggregated, a number of WASH indicators should be considered as gender-sensitive, including accessibility of drinking water sources, use of private sanitation facilities, and access to handwashing facilities with soap and water in the home.