Monitoring “Affordability” of water and sanitation services after 2015: Review of global indicator options, March 2012.
Guy Hutton, PhD
A paper submitted to the United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights
The paper aim is to review the concepts and evidence on the affordability of water and sanitation services, from a human rights perspective, and make recommendations on appropriate global indicator(s) for monitoring affordability.
Indicator options are evaluated for four key criteria: validity; relevance and likely uptake; data requirements and availability; and resource needs for global monitoring. The paper draws on published literature on the affordability of water and sanitation services, human rights indicators, and water and sanitation indicators.
It reviews potential data sources for the proposed affordability indicators, including national surveys that could support global monitoring.
