some of the problems lie in the informal status of certain urban settings and their consequent exclusion from official statistics whereas other problems result from the sampling frames used in household surveys for the more wellestablished monitoring exercises such as the whounicef joint monitoring programme whounicef a the unhabitat urban inequities survey uis unhabitat is one such survey method that is designed to highlight these inequities in service provision figure clearly indicates the impact of a waterfocused uis in the urban centre of a small town in uganda