Sanitation and health: Where to from here?

Overview

As the MDG period was drawing to a close the UN Deputy Secretary General SG issued a call to action on sanitation in a last ditch effort to accelerate progress on one of the most lagging targets. In response, WHO established a dedicated sanitation team and set about updating evidence, norms and monitoring to support this final push but more significantly to prepare for the SDGs. So, three years into the SDGs what’s changed and what have we learned on sanitation and health? This paper presents a selection of insights so far.