Table of illustrative indicators on the rights to water and sanitation (OHCHR draft 14/05/2014)
Process
• Government expenditure on water and sanitation as a proportion of gross national income or total public expenditure
• Net official development assistance for water and sanitation received or provided as a proportion of public expenditure on water and sanitation or gross
national income
• Proportion of complaints received on the rights to water and sanitation investigated and adjudicated by courts, the national human rights institution,
human rights ombudsperson or other relevant mechanisms and the proportion of these responded to effectively by the Government
• Proportion of targeted population reporting satisfaction with how involved they feel in decision-making affecting their access to adequate water and
sanitation
• Proportion of targeted populations
(e.g. children in primary schools) covered
by programmes for hygiene awareness,
including menstrual hygiene for women
and girls
• Proportion of schools and institutions with
separate sanitation facilities for men or
women and boys or girls with Menstrual
Hygiene Management (MHM) (e.g. privacy
for changing materials and for washing
body, access to water and soap, disposal
facilities)
• Proportion of households
• Proportion of schools, health
• Proportion of the water and
disconnected from the water
centres, prisons and other
sanitation budget spent on
supply due to bills not met
institutions with access to safe
operating and maintenance costs
drinking water, sanitation and
within
X
working
days
• Proportion of total water devoted
hand-washing facilities (e.g. with
• Proportion of households’
to household consumption
facilities for persons with
requests for financial support
compared to proportion of total
disabilities, older persons)
to pay their water bill or
water devoted to other uses
sanitation costs met during
the period
• Proportion of sector performance
data or reports publicly available
according to plans
• Proportion of water suppliers or sanitation
service providers inspected for conformity
with quality standards adopted and the
proportion of inspections resulting in
administrative action or prosecution
Outcome
• Proportion of the population using
improved drinking water sources
and sanitation facilities*
• Proportion of households in which
the toilet or latrine is used by all
members of household, (including
men and women, boys and girls,
older persons, persons with
disabilities) whenever needed
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• Proportion of households taking
more than X minutes on round trip
time to go to water source,
queuing time, collect the water,
and come back to the household*
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• Proportion of households who
• Proportion of households
experienced disruptions in water
spending more than X % of
supply more than X hours
expenditure or income on
per year
water and sanitation
• Number of recorded deaths and incidence of
disease (e.g. diarrhoea, cholera, arsenic) due • Proportion of population using
sanitation facilities with safely
to adulterated water source or lack of
managed waste water and excreta
adequate sanitation*
(e.g. waste water related excreta
• Proportion of women and adolescent girls
transported through sewer
able to manage menstruation hygienically
network, septic tanks or latrine
and with dignity (e.g. privacy for changing
pit to treatment facility or
materials and for washing body, access to
collection site)
water and soap, disposal facilities)
• Proportion of population using drinking
water which conforms to bacteriological
standards (e.g. E. coli, arsenic, nitrate)*
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