Water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) are at the core of sustainable development. As we embark on a new round of global goals, namely the Sustainable Development Goals, a top priority is to address a coherent framework for monitoring these services. In the coming years, the sector will witness the development of a variety of multidimensional monitoring measures, albeit from different perspectives. This paper reviews the relevant literature and discusses the adequacy and applicability of one approach that is increasingly adopted for multidimensional poverty measurement at the household level, the Alkire‐Foster methodology. Drawing on this method, we identify and combine a set of direct household‐related water and sanitation deprivations that batter a person at the same time. This new multidimensional measure is useful for gaining a better understanding of the context in which WaSH services are delivered. It captures both the incidence and intensity of WaSH poverty, and provides a new tool to support monitoring and reporting. For illustrative purposes, one small town in Mozambique is selected as the initial case study.

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监测和针对卫生条件差的人：多维方法

水、环境卫生和个人卫生 (WaSH) 是可持续发展的核心。当我们开始新一轮的全球目标，即可持续发展目标时，当务之急是制定一个连贯的框架来监测这些服务。未来几年，该行业将见证各种多维监测措施的发展，尽管角度不同。本文回顾了相关文献并讨论了一种越来越多地用于家庭层面多维贫困测量的方法，即 Alkire-Foster 方法的充分性和适用性。利用这种方法，我们确定并结合了一组直接与家庭相关的水和卫生设施剥夺，这些问题同时打击了一个人。这种新的多维测量有助于更好地了解提供 WaSH 服务的环境。它捕获了 WaSH 贫困的发生率和强度，并提供了一种支持监测和报告的新工具。出于说明目的，选择莫桑比克的一个小镇作为初始案例研究。