An Evaluation of the Interventionist Reforms by the Lagos State Government towards Achieving Millennium Development Goals (Mdgs) in Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Practice
Dr. Olusegun Adegoke Adewusi

Abstract
The paper evaluates reforms introduced by the Lagos state government to enhance environmental sanitation and hygiene practice, with a view to achieving MDGs. It makes use of the secondary data obtained from National Bureau of statistics affiliated office in the Federal Government Secretariat, Yola and from the consultants report number 812 of 2005. These secondary data are used in measuring the percentage of households with unconventional toilet and with unsatisfactory refuse disposal in Lagos state in the pre-intervention period (before the introduction of the reforms) and in the post-intervention period (after the introduction of the reforms). The evaluation of the reforms revealed that Lagos state government was able to reduce the percentage of households with unconventional toilet by 22.16 percent and the percentage of households with unsatisfactory refuse disposal by 1.53 percent.

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