Arbeitspapier

Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda

Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector. Given the importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its impact on health outcomes. This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries where achieving sustained improvements in child health outcomes remains a challenge. This paper uses geocoded sub-national data on the location of WASH aid projects in Uganda in conjunction with six waves of nationally representative household-level panel survey data to examine the impact of aid-funded WASH projects on the probability of stunting among Ugandan children and infants. Analysing aid effectiveness at the sub-national level avoids the problems of cross-country heterogeneity in aid effectiveness that plagues other studies.Results of the difference-in-differences regression analysis suggest that proximity to an aid-funded WASH project reduces the probability of stunting by 14- 21 per cent. The results suggest that scaling up aid to the WASH sector can help improve child health outcomes in the country.

ISBN
978-92-9267-274-4
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2022/141

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health and Economic Development
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
Foreign Aid
Thema
aid
public health
water and sanitation
childhood stunting
difference in differences
Uganda

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pickbourn, Lynda
Caraher, Raymond
Ndikumana, Léonce
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/274-4
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Pickbourn, Lynda
  • Caraher, Raymond
  • Ndikumana, Léonce
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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