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SCORE CARD RANKING OF COUNTRIES, REGIONS, CITIES, LOCAL AUTHORITIES ON MAJOR ISSUES REGARDING POVERTY, GENDER EMPOWERMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
KENYAN COUNTIES SCORE CARD FOR EXTREME POOR SANITATION
The counties are ranked based on the proportion of households (dis-aggregated by gender of household heads) with complete lack of sanitation facilities of any kind in the vicinity of their dwelling. No private or public toilet or pit latrine within the vicinity. No composting of wastes. Use only open defecation buckets or polythene bags which are thrown to the open. Recently there was a wide spread of Cholera outbreaks in several counties in Kenya that killed more than 10 people. One of the main causes of Cholera is poor sanitation which allows human wastes to contaminate water for drinking. Complete lack of sanitation facilities is one of the indicators in our Multi-indicator Extreme/Absolute Poverty Index. Extreme lack of sanitation facilities coupled with drinking water sources from surface water such as rivers, dams, lakes ponds, unprotected springs is a recipe for water borne diseases such as Cholera.
Kenyan Counties
Source: Computed from DSH2008/9, by RedPact-Africa Initiative
Source: Computed from DSH2008/9, by RedPact-Africa Initiative
The households are ranked based on the proportions of households (disaggregated by sex of household heads) whose only source of water for drinking is surface water such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, unprotected springs. These sources of water are usualy contaminated with wastes, animal dropings, fertilisers from farms e.t.c. They are not fit for human consumptions, households with surface water as their only source of water are exposed to a plathora of water borne diseases and poisons. This is one of the indicators in our Multi-indicator Extreme/Absolute Poverty Index.
The households are ranked based on incidences of diarrhea within the last two weeks presiding the survey. Extreme Poor Sanitation, Sources of Water for Drinking that are hygienically unfit for human consumption are the recite for the cases of diarrhea.
