IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

A Sustainability Check (SC) is a study to assess the sustainability of WASH facilities, services, and behaviours with a national, subnational or programme-based scope. It provides an assessment of the current sustainability of services within the scope of study and looks at the enabling environment and the conditions for their future sustainability.

Sustainability checks (SCs) aim to monitor the sustainability of services and sustained behaviours regularly and to address underlying causes by assessing a number of sustainability factors, i.e., those key conditions that contribute to sustainable and resilient services, together with a set of sustainability dimensions, which aim to provide a quick overview of the state of service quality at the time of survey.