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dc.contributor.authorKomakech, Hans
dc.contributor.authorMoyo, Francis
dc.contributor.authorRoda, Oscar
dc.contributor.authorMachunda, Revocatus
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Kyla
dc.contributor.authorGautam, Om
dc.contributor.authorCairncross, Sandy
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-14T12:51:51Z
dc.date.available2023-09-14T12:51:51Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-10
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183328
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/20.500.12479/2004
dc.descriptionThis research article was published by international Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in 2019en_US
dc.description.abstractAbstract: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 sets an ambitious target of leaving no-one without adequate and equitable sanitation by 2030. The key concern is the lack of local human and financial capital to fund the collection of reliable information to monitor progress towards the goal. As a result, national and local records may be telling a different story of the proportion of safely managed sanitation that counts towards achieving the SDG. This paper unveils such inconsistency in sanitation data generated by urban authorities and proposes a simple approach for collecting reliable and verifiable information on access to safely managed sanitation. The paper is based on a study conducted in Babati Town Council in Tanzania. Using a smartphone-based survey tool, city health officers were trained to map 17,383 housing units in the town. A housing unit may comprise of two or more households. The findings show that 5% practice open defecation, while 82% of the housing units have some form of sanitation. Despite the extensive coverage, only 31% of the fecal sludge generated is safely contained, while 64% is not. This study demonstrates the possibility of using simple survey tools to collect reliable data for monitoring progress towards safely managed sanitation in the towns of global South.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthen_US
dc.subjectsmall townsen_US
dc.subjectmappingen_US
dc.subjectrban sanitationen_US
dc.subjectaccessen_US
dc.subjectSDGen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleWhat Proportion Counts? Disaggregating Access to Safely Managed Sanitation in an Emerging Town in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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