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SMOSS monitoring guidance Annex E (analysis)

July 2025
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Brief summary

These annexes accompany the Guidance for Monitoring SMOSS to provide additional details on indicators, core and expanded questions and tools for designing monitoring systems to collect data for SDG 6.2.1. These annexes have been developed as part of the Monitoring SMOSS pilot project and are informed by the pilots conducted in ten countries as part of this project as well as other global examples of monitoring of safely managed sanitation services. The annexes are split into the following documents and are available with the main guidance at https://washdata.org/monitoring/sanitation/safely-managed-on-site-sanitation 

A. Global indicators for monitoring SMOSS
B. Data collection – Household questionnaire
C. Data collection – household sanitation inspections
D. Data collection - Service authority and service provider surveys
E. Analysis to inform national estimates for SDG 6.2.1

Report highlights

E.1 Analysis of the sanitation service chain to estimate SMOSS pE-2

  • Decision tree, indicators, ratios and assumptions

E.2 Analysing different data sources and scales pE-7

  • Reliability and use of different data sources,
  • Nationally representative estimates from household and non-household data
  • Combining data from different sources
Report type
Monitoring category
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