Access to essential services such as clean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), as well as clean energy and education is a key lever to improving livelihoods and ensuring a better quality of life. This indicator allows funds to capture positive impacts in these areas by collating the number of people who have benefitted from essential services attributable to their projects. This is relevant to consider as land-use projects (sustainable agriculture, forestry, restoration) will often take place in countries and regions where access to essential services is an issue to be addressed. Access to essential services can build resilience in local communities and reduce their very high dependency on nature.<\/p>\n
This indicator will often be built as part of a landscape investment plan. Investing directly or in-directly (through a business recipient investing in its value chain) will help producers and surrounding communities increase their well-being and hence remove pressure on land and forests as illegal activities would no longer be a necessity for a living. In addition, this well-being element would increase their ability to adapt to climate change effects, so it is linked to climate resilience of the populations. This indicator was added in August 2023.<\/p>\n","methodology":"
The type and scale of benefits generated by a project will vary depending on the local context (e.g. landscape socio-economic profile, activity type, threat and drivers of poverty, resilience to climate change). This indicator should be measured following a stepwise process as follows:<\/p>\n
Only benefits from essential services with reasonable additionality and attribution to the project should be counted \u2013 ie. benefits that can be linked to the fund\u2019s intervention, and that would not have happened otherwise.<\/p>\n
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This is a high-level, collated indicator, which may combine benefits from a number of different essential services. Assess the value and opportunity of presenting data disaggregated into the impacts from different essential services when communicating the indicator, as well as giving the overall figure. Qualitative case studies would be helpful to add further detail on the types on impacts, and their particular impacts on different individuals. Results should be disaggregated by gender\/sex and other protected characteristics (eg. whether individuals consider themselves a member of a indigenous community, socioeconomic status) where relevant, as well as refer to a baseline at start of investment<\/p>\n
The indicator is appropriate for providing an indicative estimate of the number of people benefiting from improved access to essential services as a result of the project. It does not attempt to quantify the level of the benefit obtained by people as many social benefits do not translate into easily comparable units of measurement (e.g. $ value).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","considerations":[{"text":"This indicator is of particular value for funds with a core social objective, or where projects are being carried out as part of a landscape approach and in Least Developed Countries. "},{"text":"Only benefits with reasonable additionality and attribution to the project should be counted \u2013 ie. benefits that can be reasonably linked to the fund\u2019s intervention, and that would not have happened otherwise."},{"text":"This indicator provides an understanding of the reach of essential services and can be monitored through engagement with project participants. It does not however provide an indication of the scale of these benefits. As such it should be recognized that benefit to one person in a location may not be equivalent to benefit to one person in another location."}],"resources":[{"link_text":"WHO - Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)","link_url":"https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/water-sanitation-and-hygiene-wash#tab=tab_1"},{"link_text":"Conservation International - WASH in watersheds","link_url":"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/projects\/wash-in-watersheds-connecting-people-and-nature-through-water"},{"link_text":"UN - SDG 7 Affordable and clean energy","link_url":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/energy\/ "},{"link_text":"Clean Cooking Alliance ","link_url":"https:\/\/cleancooking.org\/"},{"link_text":"Sustainable Energy for All","link_url":"https:\/\/www.seforall.org\/"},{"link_text":"UNESCO","link_url":"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en"}],"links_to_other_impact_area_kpis":"
Biodiversity \u2013 BIO 01, BIO 02, BIO 03, BIO 04<\/p>\n
Climate Action \u2013CMA 04, CMA 05<\/p>\n
Livelihoods and Gender \u2013 LG 01, LG 03, LG 04<\/p>\n
Sustainable Production \u2013 PRO 03<\/p>\n","case_studies":"
Number of people benefiting directly or indirectly from Fund transactions (preferably disaggregated by gender\/sex) is one of the KPIs considered by the fund AGRI3 in its E&S framework. This indicator could link to LG 02 if AGRI3 projects lead to increased access to essential services.<\/p>\n
In their Impact Indicators Guidelines, IFACC include an indicator titled \u2018Number of direct beneficiaries (detailed by gender)\u2019, which is a broader formulation likely to encompass LG 02.<\/p>\n","requirements":{"spatial_data":false,"project_specific_criteria":true,"on_the_ground_verification":true},"download":"https:\/\/kpi-directory.shared-api-01.production.linode.unep-wcmc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/V2-LG-02-Number-of-Participants-Benefitting-from-Increased-Access-to-Essential-Services.pdf"},"yoast_head":"\n