Economic Assessment of Sanitation Interventions in Indonesia
Statistics from the UN Joint Monitoring Program show sanitation progress in Indonesia to be off-track coverage has to increase by more than 13 percentage points nationally from 2008 to 2015 to meet the sanitation target of the Millennium Developmen...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/11/16724472/economic-assessment-sanitation-interventions-indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17351 |
| Summary: | Statistics from the UN Joint Monitoring
Program show sanitation progress in Indonesia to be
off-track coverage has to increase by more than 13
percentage points nationally from 2008 to 2015 to meet the
sanitation target of the Millennium Development Goals, which
the Government of Indonesia committed to in 2002. However,
after being a largely forgotten issue in the 15 years
following the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, sanitation
is now receiving increasing attention from all levels of
government in Indonesia. Recently the Government of
Indonesia has made considerable efforts to mobilize
additional resources in order to finance the country's
needs for infrastructure projects. The purpose of the
Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) is to promote
evidence-based decision making using improved methodologies
and data sets, thus increasing the effectiveness and
sustainability of public and private sanitation spending.
Better decision making techniques and economic evidence
themselves are also expected to stimulate additional
spending on sanitation to meet and surpass national coverage
targets. The specific purpose of the ESI phase two studies
is to generate robust evidence on the costs and benefits of
sanitation improvements in different programmatic and
geographic contexts in Indonesia, leading to information
about which are more efficient and sustainable sanitation
interventions and programs. Basic hygiene aspects are also
included, insofar as they affect health outcomes. |
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