1Adeniji Charales Robert, 2 TellaAdeniranRahmon&3Amodu Akeem(PhD)
Abstract:
Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene is a major human right necessary for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainable access to an improved water and sanitation has a strong relationship with healthy and productive life as well as environmental sustainability. Efforts at ensuring access to clean and proper sanitation have witnessed tremendous progress globally and also at local levels. Specifically, poor accessibility to clean water has gross implications on socioeconomic development, personal hygiene and places the health of about 40 million Nigerians at risk of disease like cholera, typhoid, trachoma, dengue-fever and ascariasis; a threat to sustainable development goals. Through the method of primary and secondary data analysis, it is the aim of this study to examine how global humanitarian interventions have impacted on the attainment of sustainable development goals in Oyo state, Nigeria, particularly with reference to access to quality water supply and sanitation. The study adopts case study research design. Data were source from primary and secondary sources: 200 survey where administered to the beneficial communities of water and sanitation services provision under humanitarian polities across the 3 senatorialdistricts of Oyo State. Key informant interview were conducted with UNICEF and CSDA under RUWASA Oyo State. Participatory observation and community interactions were also held.The study reveals that; the beneficiary communities are aware of humanitarian intervention in water and sanitation services provision; maintenance of project are mainly done by the communities; service providers focused on achievement of global development agenda (SDG) in pursuit of water and sanitation service in the beneficiary communities; the politics of humanitarian service provision in Nigeria is more of donor driven and community ownership/management. The study concludes on the need for Nigerian States to harness humanitarian politics as a veritable channel for deepening attainment of the SDGs with particular reference to provision of water supply and sanitation
