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TITLE Hashimoto Action Plan II [pdf 129 Kb]
DATE January 2010
ANNOUNCEMENT
 The United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) is embarking on their next strategic phase with the release of the Hashimoto Action Plan II.

In only a few years, world leaders will assess progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals, including the targets to halve by 2015 the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Getting the right policies, strategies and actions in place during the next three years is absolutely critical. The Hashimoto Action Plan II contributes to this effort by motivating, convening and galvanizing its partners to achieve objectives in five key areas: financing, sanitation, monitoring & reporting, integrated water resources management and water and disaster.

The Hashimoto Action Plan II articulates a time-bound vision, targeted actions and clear outcomes aiming to ensure a future where each child, woman and man enjoys clean water and safe sanitation. The UNSGAB secretariat welcomes feedback, ideas and comments.
TITLE Gender-Disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation
[pdf 2MB]
DATE June 2009
CONTENTS
excerpt:		 Expert Group Meeting Report:
Gender-Disaggregated Data on Water and Sanitation

Forewords..............................................................................4
Rationale and Goals................................................................8
Participation and Presentations.................................................11
Summary of Overarching Themes..............................................13
Obstacles to developing, collecting and using
      gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation...............17
Data collection needs: gender-disaggregated indicators currently
      unrepresented or under-represented....................................23
Summary Indicator Table..........................................................26
Recommendations, including six gendered indicators...................28
Annex: List of participants........................................................31
TITLE Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target:
A Mid-Term Assessment of Progress [HTML]
(UNICEF/WHO)
FOREWORD
excerpt:		 The combination of safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation facilities is a precondition for health and for success in the fight against poverty, hunger, child deaths and gender inequality. It is also central to the human rights and personal dignity of every woman, man and child on earth. Yet 2.6 billion people – half the developing world – lack even a simple ‘improved’ latrine. One person in six – more than 1 billion of our fellow human beings – has little choice but to use potentially harmful sources of water...

In adopting the Millennium Development Goals, the countries of the world pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation...

Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), provides the latest estimates and trends on where we stand today...