WASHPaLS COVID-19 WASH Activity, 2020

Description

USAID tasked WASHPaLS with assessing the effects of COVID-19 on WASH access in its high priority (HP) and strategy-aligned countries. The assignment sought to both characterize the current state of affairs as well as to forecast near-term future trends. The activity conducted key informant interviews with WASH product and service providers, government officials, donors and WASH program implementers, as well as SMS-based surveys of over 3,000 randomly selected individuals in 6 deep dive countries. SMS surveys were conducted by the mobile-base research firm GeoPoll. The survey could be easily read and filled out with a basic feature phone (non-smartphone) and was offered to potential respondents incentivized by a modest offer of top-up credit. The instrument consisted of 33 questions, with skip patterns that meant that a respondent typically saw on the order 20-25 questions. The six deep dive countries in this data asset include DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda and Senegal. Summary data is available via the links under "References," in the Common Core section, below.

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Name Format Description Link
21 To assess the effects of COVID-19 on WASH access, SMS-based surveys were conducted with 500 randomly selected individuals in Ghana during the latter half of August 2020. The survey was offered in English and contained modules on employment and migration, water supply, sanitation, and handwashing. The completion rate for the survey was 44%. https://data.usaid.gov/d/3dce-r4ar
21 To assess the effects of COVID-19 on WASH access, SMS-based surveys were conducted with 500 randomly selected individuals in Kenya during the latter half of August 2020. The survey was offered in English and Swahili and contained modules on employment and migration, water supply, sanitation, and handwashing. The completion rate for the survey was 33%. https://data.usaid.gov/d/cjd9-xx67
21 To assess the effects of COVID-19 on WASH access, SMS-based surveys were conducted with 500 randomly selected individuals in Mozambique during the latter half of August 2020. The survey was offered in English and Portuguese and contained modules on employment and migration, water supply, sanitation, and handwashing. The completion rate for the survey was 28%. https://data.usaid.gov/d/vexn-byat
21 To assess the effects of COVID-19 on WASH access, SMS-based surveys were conducted with 500 randomly selected individuals in Senegal during the latter half of August 2020. The survey was offered in English, French and Wolof, and contained modules on employment and migration, water supply, sanitation, and handwashing. The completion rate for the survey was 55%. https://data.usaid.gov/d/2yz7-k7vh
21 To assess the effects of COVID-19 on WASH access, SMS-based surveys were conducted with 500 randomly selected individuals in Rwanda during the first two weeks of October 2020. The survey was offered in English, French and Kinyarwanda and contained modules on employment and migration, water supply, sanitation, and handwashing. The completion rate for the survey was 19%. https://data.usaid.gov/d/dgfj-c8b4
21 To assess the effects of COVID-19 on WASH access, SMS-based surveys were conducted with 500 randomly selected individuals in Democratic Republic of the Congo during the latter half of August 2020. The survey was offered in English, French and Swahili and contained modules on employment and migration, water supply, sanitation, and handwashing. The completion rate for the survey was 25%. https://data.usaid.gov/d/f43d-eekf

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  • handwashing
  • sanitation
  • wash
  • covid-19
  • water-supply

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