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 WASH sectors in Guatemala. Finally, the report 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 diagnostics is highlight 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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Autor
Borja-Vega,Christian, Aguero,Marco Antonio, Scott,Katherine M.
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Data do documento
2018/05/30
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TIpo de documento
Outro estudo sobre pobreza
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No. do relatório
126775
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Nº do volume
1
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Total Volume(s)
1
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Data de divulgação
2018/06/01
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Nome do documento
Poverty diagnostic for water supply, sanitation, and hygiene in Guatemala : challenges and opportunities
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Palavras-chave
access to water supply and sanitation; access to basic service; water supply and sanitation sector; national public investment; access to primary health care; access to safe water supply; rural area; central government expenditure; water quality monitoring program; quality of drinking water; patterns of childhood mortality; leading cause of death; source of drinking water; social and economic development; surface water; information and communication technology; access to drinking water; rural drinking water; reliability of service provision; alternative sources of funding; investment need; gender gap in access; national household survey; quality of service delivery; chronic malnutrition; access to sanitation; drinking water supply; basic social service; drinking water coverage; analysis of poverty; drinking water source; poverty and health; rural sanitation coverage; national water authority; sanitation and hygiene; maintenance of system; target for sanitation; allocation of investment; rural water supply; rural service provider; areas of health; average capital expenditure; community water supply; lack of water; Urban Water Supply; pace of increase; improving service delivery; health and nutrition; years of schooling; purchasing power parity; economies of scale; quality public service; health outcome indicators; participatory action research; improved water supply; malnutrition among children; access to infrastructure; decline in poverty; living in poverty; improvements in access; process of decentralization; acute respiratory infection; cost of water; Poverty & Inequality; senior operations; culture of nonpayment; social policy design; child nutrition indicators; mother and child; lack of transparency; act of corruption; drinking water services; public service delivery; improved sanitation; Indigenous Peoples; rural population
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