Title
From the global to the subnational scale: Landing the compositional monitoring of drinking water and sanitation services
Date Issued
10 September 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pérez-Foguet A.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Monitoring of access to water and sanitation services is stipulated in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 6.1 and 6.2, respectively. The monitoring is carried out with a global, regional and country vision. However, in most developing countries, decentralization of services in water and sanitation management has tended to the sub-national level or has shared responsibilities between national and sub-national governments. Management at the subnational level becomes more important, since everything that is done there will impact the objectives and goals of the country. However, little or nothing progress has been made in harmonizing global indicators with those at the subnational level. Therefore, in this study we have proposed a way to disaggregate information and form WASH ladders at the subnational level. The results show using disaggregated data to interpolate models at the subnational level requires overcoming three main points: the validation of the data through statistical methods, interpolation techniques that go according to the compositional characteristics of the data and the incorporation of the uncertainty of the data into the model results. It also shows that subnational behavior is heterogeneous, which a general analysis does not capture correctly, i.e., there is a masking effect of subnational trends that the country's trend does not represent. However, these have been exceptional cases in some specific categories. Finally, the applicability of non-linear models is contrasted in a broader context, an issue that is still under discussion for its application to global monitoring. This study also provides a way to disaggregate information from the global to the sub-national level, allowing any sector analyst to replicate the methodology in a broader context.
Volume
838
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biorremediación, Biotecnologías de diagnóstico en la gestión ambiental
Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85130279307
PubMed ID
Source
Science of the Total Environment
ISSN of the container
00489697
Sponsor(s)
This research was developed within the framework of a grant from the Peruvian government (Reference PRONABEC-President of the Republic Scholarship), through a full scholarship awarded to Alejandro Quispe Coica, and was partially funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Ref: RTI2018-095518-B-C22 ) and by the Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Ref. 2017 SGR 1496 ).
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