Baseline Assessment for the USAID Expanding Water and Sanitation Project

It was designed to form an important part of the monitoring and evaluation processes of the project as well as to inform its interventions. Therefore, the findings of the WASH Baseline Assessment are expected to contribute to project design, implementation, monitoring, learning and evaluation. Key results of the assessment indicate that: 13 percent of households, 14 percent of health facilities, and 12 percent of schools in the study have no access to water services 12 percent of health facilities and three percent of schools in the study have no access to sanitation services 4 percent of households in the study have access to safely managed water services 40 percent of households have access to unimproved water services 32 percent of households, 67 percent of health facilities, and 69 percent of schools have access to basic water services