Safe disposal of children’s feces is as essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief provides an overview of the available data on child feces disposal in Ethiopia and concludes with ideas to strengthen safe disposal practices, based on emerging good practice. The Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) tracks progress toward the Millennium Development Goal 7 target to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The JMP standardized definition for an improved sanitation facility is one that hygienically separates human excreta from human contact. In the latest JMP report, only a quarter (24 percent) of Ethiopia’s population had access to improved sanitation in 2012. This means that 70 million individuals in Ethiopia lacked improved sanitation in 2012; of these, 34 million practice open defecation. However, these estimates are based on the household’s primary sanitation facility, and may overlook the sanitation practices of young children. In many cases, children may not be able to use an improved toilet or latrine - because of their age and stage of physical development or the safety concerns of their caregivers - even if their household has access to one.
详细
-
文件日期
2014/12/01
-
文件类型
简介
-
报告号
96426
-
卷号
1
-
Total Volume(s)
1
-
国家
-
地区
-
发布日期
2015/05/18
-
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
-
文件名称
Ethiopia - Child feces disposal
-
关键词
Demographic and Health Survey;Infant and Young Child Feeding;access to safe drinking water;safe disposal;high risk of exposure;demographic survey;maternal and child health;feces disposal;children under age;feces disposal behavior;households with child;behavior of caregivers;access to child;Early Childhood Development;improved sanitation;open defecation;rural area;behavior change;urban household;disposal method;sanitation facility;baseline survey;rural population;intellectual capacity;promotional methods;knowledge gap;evidence-based policy;hygiene improvement;human excreta;rural counterpart;guiding principles;wastewater management;latrine coverage;Basic Sanitation;household sanitation;formative research;wealth quintile;unsafe water;risky practice;intestinal worm;diarrheal disease;household environment;child's household;hygiene promotion;hepatitis a;poor sanitation;monitoring mechanism;sanitation policy;effective strategy;household wealth;global health;sanitation practice;positive behavior;literature review;toilet training;health facility;young age;photo credit;physical development;preschool program;healthy behavior;poor household;latrine structure;safe sanitation;
- 更多显示