According to the latest estimates of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), released in early 2013 (collected in 2011), 36 per cent of the world’s population – 2.5 billion people – lack improved sanitation facilities, and 768 million people still use unsafe drinking water sources. Working with the Government and other partners, UNICEF is supporting water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), health, nutrition, child protection, education and other interventions.