Asia Water Watch 2015 Are Countries in Asia on Track to Meet Target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals?
Asian Development Bank | December 2005
Abstract
Five years ago, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) unveiled a special horizon—one that the entire developing world has been tasked to arrive at by 2015. At this horizon is a world half as afflicted with poverty as the one we experience now. To arrive at this moment of achievement, though, we must first cross the water barrier. We must strive to meet MDG Target 10: To halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation. The strong correlation between water and poverty proves that when water is inaccessible and unfit, it is a barrier. But when it is available and clean, water is a bridge to even greater security and prosperity for the poor. For Asia and the Pacific, home to the majority of the world’s poor, MDG Target 10 is an especially ambitious but critical goal. The number of people without improved water supplies in the People’s Republic of China alone is nearly as large as the number of underserved in the entire African continent. Into the countdown to 2015, what progress does the Asia and Pacific region register in meeting MDG Target 10? What more is required? How will meeting MDG Target 10 advance countries toward achieving all eight MDGs? This report offers answers to these questions. Prepared by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and World Health Organization (WHO), it uses the latest data available to measure each country’s progress toward MDG Target 10 and analyzes whether it will be achieved. The results show a mixed picture. Some countries have already met the target; others are on track; others are likely to miss it in 2015. Some countries even show a decrease in coverage.
Citation
Asian Development Bank. 2005. Asia Water Watch 2015 Are Countries in Asia on Track to Meet Target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals?. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2449. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Analysis
Poverty In Developing Countries
Poverty Reduction Efforts
Urban PovertyResults-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Project Evaluation & Review Technique
Performance Evaluation
Impact Evaluation Reports
Evaluation Criteria
Development Indicators
Environmental Indicators
Economic Indicators
Educational Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Low Income Groups
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Rural Conditions
Rural Development
Social Conditions
Urban Development
Urban Sociology
Project finance
Resources evaluation
Needs assessment
Cost benefit analysis
Poor
Economic forecasting
Health expectancy
Social groups
Political participation
Distribution of income
Inequality of income
Developing countries
Rural community development
Mass society
Social change
Social policy
Social stability
Population
Sustainable development
Peasantry
Urban policy
Urban renewal
Results mapping
Risk assessment
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Cost effectiveness
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