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TITLE Gender-Disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation
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DATE March 2009
CONTENTS
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Expert Group Meeting Report:
Gender-Disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation

Rationale and Goals................................................................4
Participation and Presentations.................................................6
Summary of Overarching Themes..............................................8
Obstacles to developing, collecting and using gender-disaggregated data on
      water & sanitation.............................................................11
Data collection needs: gender-disaggregated indicators currently
      unrepresented or under-represented...................................15
Summary Indicator Table.........................................................17
Recommendations..................................................................19
Annex: List of participants........................................................21

TITLE Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target:
A Mid-Term Assessment of Progress
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(UNICEF/WHO)
FOREWORD
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The combination of safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation facilities is a precondition for health and for success in the fight against poverty, hunger, child deaths and gender inequality. It is also central to the human rights and personal dignity of every woman, man and child on earth. Yet 2.6 billion people – half the developing world – lack even a simple ‘improved’ latrine. One person in six – more than 1 billion of our fellow human beings – has little choice but to use potentially harmful sources of water...

In adopting the Millennium Development Goals, the countries of the world pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation...

Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), provides the latest estimates and trends on where we stand today...