Measuring disparities in access to water based on the normative content of the human right

O. Flores Baquero (), A. Jiménez Fdez. de Palencia () and A. Pérez Foguet ()
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O. Flores Baquero: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
A. Jiménez Fdez. de Palencia: Stockholm International Water Institute
A. Pérez Foguet: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2016, vol. 127, issue 2, No 13, 759 pages

Abstract: Abstract Measuring access to water in the Sustainable Development Goals era involves taking into account the human rights framework. Therefore, its content should be considered to conceptualize the level of service through adequate indicators and to follow-up inequities reduction at global, national and local level. This research develops and tests a methodology to measure intra-community disparities based on human right to water normative criteria through a stratified sampling, splitting households served by community based organizations and those self-provided. This approach implies considering much reduced populations, thus special care needs to be taken with sample sizes and uncertainty of estimators. The proposed methodology is practical to locate and accurately characterize minority sectors within rural communities and allows moving beyond central-tendency estimators. It implies higher costs for field data collection than traditional approaches, but this can be assumed given the relevance of the approach from a human rights perspective, which calls for adequate tools for equity-oriented policy making at local level. The research point out how results might be used to shape decision-making processes.

Keywords: Disparities; Human right to water; Non-discrimination; Sampling; Self-supply; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-0976-8

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