WHO Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy 2018-2025 WHO (2018)
WHO’s 13th General Programme of Work (GPW) 2019–2023 describes how the Organization’s work will contribute to the health of three billion: one billion becoming “healthier populations” through multisectoral actions and addressing environmental risk factors and health determinants; one billion benefiting from better emergency preparedness and response; and one billion with universal health coverage (UHC). A limited number of high profile framework impact indicators, centred around these platforms, have been developed. Two of these indicators reference water and sanitation and would accelerate the Organization’s work to increase access to safely managed drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene in households, and additional targets associated with UHC are linked to improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities (HCF). Moreover, seven other indicators, largely linked to essential health services, child and maternal mortality, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), will require improving water, sanitation and energy, especially in HCF. Finally, according to an extensive external audit completed in 2017, WHO has a “strong mandate through several World Health Assembly resolutions, global conventions, initiatives and partnerships” to lead and accelerate work on environment and health.
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WHO (2018). WHO Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy 2018-2025 WHO Water, Sanitation and Hygiene strategy 2018-2025. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018 (WHO/CED/PHE/WSH/18.03). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
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