Hygiene - UN-Water GLAAS findings on national policies, plans, targets and finance

Understanding how governments and external support agencies (ESAs) are addressing hygiene is critical during the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to be so after. Therefore, it is important to understand what actions are being taken by governments to enable hygiene promotion, facilities and handwashing with soap. This highlight summarizes data collected by the GLAAS initiative on how governments and ESAs are supporting hygiene, including information on national policies, plans targets and finance. Main findings include that countries have national policies and plans for hygiene; however, they lack the financial and human resources to fully implement them, and household expenditures on hygiene are high compared to government expenditure.