Availability of Basic Services/Facilities (PI0617)

This metric is intended to capture whether the organization has basic services provided on premises as of the end of the reporting period, as well as a system to maintain them.

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

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

These data are often most accessible 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.