Boy at Latrine door, Liberia Boy enters latrine at a camp for internally displaced persons in Liberia. In 2004, after 15 years of war, almost three fourths of Liberians had no access to safe water or sanitation. © UNICEF/HQ04-0114/ CHRISTINE NESBITT

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World not on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals for sanitation
New figures from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme show that the sanitation target of halving the number of unserved people worldwide by 2015 will not be met without a dramatic acceleration in the provision of services.
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Water, sanitation and children - Progress for Children Unicef Report Card 2006 - Video
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Progress on Sanitation

UNDP Human Development Report 2006: Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis, with chapter on Sanitation. Available in multiple languages. Link>>

Progress for Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation (No.5) Unicef report on whether the world is on course to reach MDG 7 - and where efforts are falling short. Download the report -[pdf 1.24 Mb] Interactive Map of Report Card Link>> Photo Essay Link>>

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Meeting the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target: the urban and rural challenge of the decade. This UNICEF/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme report looks at the challenge of meeting the MDG target for drinking water and sanitation. Download the report- [pdf 1.19Mb]

Sanitation Data Query tool - allows you to produce customized tables on sanitation one or more paramaters for one or several countries from Unicef/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme. Link>>

Unicef Country Profiles - Brief country profiles summarising the water and sanitation status in some of the countries where UNICEF works and information on UNICEF's programmes of support in the sector. Link>>

Global Experiences in Improving Sanitation and Hygiene - What Is Working and Where? (UNICEF) - English>> French>> Spanish>>