Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation
The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation by WHO and UNICEF is the official United Nations mechanism tasked with monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) relating to drinking water and sanitation (MDG 7, Target 7c), which is to: "Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation".
The JMP is housed within the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and supported by a Strategic Advisory Group of independent technical and policy experts as well as various Technical Task Forces convened around important specific topics.
The JMP’s 4 priority areas of activity for 2010-2015 are: 1. maintaining the integrity of the JMP database and ensuring accurate global estimates; 2. disseminating data to stakeholders; 3. fulfilling the JMP’s normative role in developing and validating target indicators; 4. enhancing interaction between countries and JMP.
In 2015, the JMP released its latest estimates on the use of various types of drinking-water sources and sanitation facilities at the national, regional and global levels.
The JMP makes its data and information available through a variety of channels and formats, including workshops in countries, its major biennial reports and website (www.wssinfo.org), the UNICEF statistical website (www.childinfo.org), and through Google Public Data. The data are also used by the World Bank and the World Health Organization's Statistical Information System (WHOSIS).
The JMP collaborates with other international and national organizations to strengthen global and domestic monitoring. The Programme also plays an advocacy role, highlighting the right to improved drinking water and sanitation for populations missing out and helping to target interventions.
In preparation for the post-2015 period (Sustainable Development Goals), the JMP has initiated four working groups which are developing potential future targets and indicators for water, sanitation, hygiene and equity/non-discrimination).
As well as reporting on the national, regional and global use of difference types of drinking water sources and sanitation facilities, the JMP actively supports countries in their efforts to monitor this sector and develop evidence based planning and management, plays a normative role in indicator formation and advocates on behalf of populations without improved water or sanitation.
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