Poverty rates in Guatemala are among the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Guatemala is now the second poorest country in the region with only post-earthquake Haiti being poorer. Guatemala is an extreme outlier in the region in terms of chronic malnutrition and almost half of all children in the country suffer from stunting. This report is part of a global initiative to improve the evidence base on the linkages between water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), human development, and poverty and seeks to understand this paradigm through a careful examination of trends in access to water and sanitation and in corresponding linkages to poverty and health. It also reviews the governance structure and expenditure plans underpinning service delivery in the WASH sectors in Guatemala. Finally, the report shows that the challenges facing the water and sanitation sector in Guatemala are significant and will require, among other things, stronger political leadership to successfully reform and regulate the sector, greater focus on rural sanitation, and increased spending and budget execution. One of the key elements of this diagnostic is highlighting what conditions led to a struggling WASH sector, particularly in rural areas. Despite a steep increase in water and sanitation coverage in the last 15 years, sanitation coverage is falling far behind drinking water coverage, with the lowest levels of coverage in rural areas affecting predominantly indigenous populations.
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Document Date
2018/03/01
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Document Type
Working Paper
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Report Number
124240
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Volume No
1
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Total Volume(s)
2
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Disclosure Date
2018/03/13
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Guatemala Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Poverty Diagnostic
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Keywords
improved sanitation; improved water; rural area; household head; extreme poverty; piped water; access to water; survey data; indigenous language; Levels of Educational Attainment; Sanitation Services; extreme poverty line; years of schooling; high literacy rate; extreme poverty rates; inequality of opportunity; Poverty & Inequality; access to sanitation; water source; share of children; sources of water; low literacy rate; education and literacy; average monthly income; per capita income; families with child; per capita consumption; degree of poverty; high poverty rate; low poverty rate; quality of data; crime and violence; risk of poverty; primary school enrolment; decline in poverty; maternal mortality ratio; indigenous language speakers; population with access; measure of poverty; inequality of income; share of income; oral rehydration; piped water supply; wage earner; primary sector; sanitation infrastructure; Employment Sector; underweight child; urban population; surface water; dissimilarity index; indigenous group; water access; water service; wealth distribution; Water Services; anthropometric indicator; chronic malnutrition; scale effect; Population Growth; rural inequality; administrative datum; rural location; demographic characteristic; ethnic group; indigenous people; Indigenous Peoples; poverty diagnostic; social security; correlation analysis; significant correlation; descriptive statistic; household consumption; flush toilet; Poverty measures; income inequality; education level; water pipe
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Guatemala Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Poverty Diagnostic (Spanish). WASH Poverty Diagnostic Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/845711520948334504/Guatemala-Water-Supply-Sanitation-and-Hygiene-Poverty-Diagnostic