Availability of Basic Services/Facilities (PI0617)

This metric is intended to capture whether the organization has basic services provided on premises along with a system in place to maintain them. Organizations in the WASH sector should report this metric in combination with WASH Facilities Type (PD3668).

For Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services, this metric requires an access level of "Basic" or "Safely Managed," according to the criteria set forth in the Joint Monitoring Programme's Service Ladder for Drinking Water (https://washdata.org/monitoring/drinking-water). For more information, see Service Level Type (PD5205).

For other impact goals and sectors, organizations should provide services and facilities at the basic or higher level, as defined by international standards. Organizations should footnote which standards are applied.

These data are often most easily collected through site visits or surveys, with visual confirmation that improvement projects have been completed.

In some contexts, this metric can serve as an indicator of whether the outcome being sought by an investor or organization is occurring (the WHAT dimension of impact). For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. The selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.