Gaps, Opportunities, and Recommendations from the Three Country Urban Nutrition Assessment of Nutrition and WASH Among Children and Adolescents Living in Urban Slums in East Africa

Summary

The findings of this assessment regarding the vulnerability of urban slum dwellers in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda depict a challenging situation in terms of the nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) status of children and adolescents in these settings. The extent to which children and adolescents in slums and informal settlements suffer from poor health outcomes resulting from malnutrition and inadequate WASH services remains largely unknown in many locations due to lack of disaggregated urban data. Further compounding these challenges is the general lack of evidence surrounding effective strategies to combat poor health, malnutrition, and diseases associated with limited WASH access in the complex environments of slums and informal settlements.