Only 17% of households have access basic hygiene services

• 17% households have access basic hygiene services
• About 69% of households do not have handwashing facilities available on premises. Only 8% of households have handwashing stations within households
• 4% of households consider handwashing after cleaning up child’s faeces or changing a child’s diaper a critical time Households’ knowledge of at least two critical times for handwashing was reported to be 99%, an 18-%age point increase from 2019 NORM reported figures of 81%
• About a quarter (27%) of all households had soaps observed within their houses at the time of survey

Access to Hygiene Services in Nigeria, 2021

• Only 8% of household heads interviewed were able to demonstrate proper handwashing techniques with soap under running water
• Only 4% of the population are likely to practice proper handwashing with water and soap at critical times

Source: Water Sanitation and Hygiene National Outcome Routine Mapping (WASHNORM) survey, 2021

The survey is a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Water Resource and the National Bureau of Statistics with support from UNICEF, the World Bank, WHO and other development partners.