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CSD-12/13
Water |
Sanitation |
Human Settlements
| Inter-Linkages
Sanitation
Improving Sanitation
Country |
Initiative |
Summary Description |
| Norway |
Women
Leaders for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for all (WASH) |
Women Leaders for WASH is an advocacy
campaign that has mobilized a number of women ministers of water
and environment and other women leaders to accelerate the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water
and sanitation. A launch of the initiative took place at the
United Nations in the framework of CSD-13, where 12 women
leaders discussed actions that are needed to take place at all
levels to meet the MDGs.
See: and http://www.wsscc.org/home.cfm |
| UN HABITAT |
SANICON |
Sanitation Connection is an
Internet-based resource that provides access to accurate,
reliable and up-to-date information on technologies,
institutions and financing of sanitation systems around the
world. Institutions of international standing contribute to the
information base by providing and maintaining a topic of their
specialization. |
| UNU |
Water and Sanitation in an Urban Poor Settlement: A Case Study
of Bauniabad, Bangladesh |
The study documents the various water
and sanitation (WS) projects that have been introduced in the
poor urban settlement of Bauniabad in Dhaka, Bangladesh from
1993 to 2003. It describes the different options used and the
functioning conditions of the old and newly introduced
innovative water and sanitation options |
| WSSCC |
| SANICON |
Sanitation Connection is an
Internet-based resource that provides access to accurate,
reliable and up-to-date information on technologies,
institutions and financing of sanitation systems around the
world. Institutions of international standing contribute to the
information base by providing and maintaining a topic of their
specialization. |
| Women
Leaders for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for all (WASH) |
Women Leaders for WASH is an advocacy
campaign that has mobilized a number of women ministers of water
and environment and other women leaders to accelerate the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water
and sanitation. A launch of the initiative took place at the
United Nations in the framework of CSD-13, where 12 women
leaders discussed actions that are needed to take place at all
levels to meet the MDGs.
See: and http://www.wsscc.org/home.cfm |
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Hygiene Education and Community Participation
|
Country |
Initiative |
Summary Description |
|
UNICEF |
School Sanitation and Hygiene
Education |
The School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) programme,
originally a global pilot project in countries such as Burkina
Faso, Colombia, Nicaragua, Nepal, Viet Nam and Zambia, has
provided limited funding for physical improvements in sanitation
facilities in 10-20 schools per country, but it has helped
catalyze resource mobilization for water and sanitation
improvements in more than 11,000 schools. A pilot project in
Malawi has evolved into a programme aiming to reach one-quarter
of the country’s schools. In Ethiopia, NGOs, multilateral and
bilateral organizations have united around a common aim to
improve water and sanitation in 60% of the primary schools by
2007. SSHE has been extended to more than 70 countries in the
past five years. |
|
World Bank |
School Sanitation and Hygiene
Education |
The School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) programme,
originally a global pilot project in countries such as Burkina
Faso, Colombia, Nicaragua, Nepal, Viet Nam and Zambia, has
provided limited funding for physical improvements in sanitation
facilities in 10-20 schools per country, but it has helped
catalyze resource mobilization for water and sanitation
improvements in more than 11,000 schools. A pilot project in
Malawi has evolved into a programme aiming to reach one-quarter
of the country’s schools. In Ethiopia, NGOs, multilateral and
bilateral organizations have united around a common aim to
improve water and sanitation in 60% of the primary schools by
2007. SSHE has been extended to more than 70 countries in the
past five years. |
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Waste Water Treatment and Re-use
|
Country |
Initiative |
Summary Description |
| Finland |
“Consumer-pays” principle |
In order to decrease the amount of
sewage waters, the Finnish authorities have decided to charge
consumers for both water use and water cleaning. The
“consumer-pays” principle in this case illustrated the
effectiveness of fiscal incentives for reducing water
consumption. |
| Germany |
Sanitation System in
Lubeck-Flitenbreite
|
An innovative sanitation system of
source separation is realized in an entire housing estate in
Germany for the first time. Despite the high technical approach
the operation costs can be much lower than for conventional
sanitation systems and results in lower water and energy
consumption for a densely populated area. The construction of
the technical equipment and the buildings started in February
1999. The project demonstrates the feasibility of the source
control system combined with water saving technology as well as
fertilizer and energy production. |
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The Waste and
Wastewater/Sanitation Management Project in Botswana |
The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
initiated a “Waste and Wastewater/Sanitation Management Project”
in Botswana in 1993 to focus on the prevention of water
pollution caused by poor practices in waste and wastewater
management. Within the framework of the project, the national
Department of Sanitation and Waste Management was founded in
1999 as Botswana’s implementing agency. The current phase of the
project includes a significant wastewater element that has led
to the development and adoption by the government of a water and
sanitation policy to establish the institutional, administrative
and legal structures needed to provide effective sanitation
across the country and protect water resources. |
| Serbia and Montenegro |
Global Waste Water Study in
Serbia & Pre-feasibility Study for Belgrade Waste Water
Management
|
The project “Global Waste Water
Study in Serbia & Pre-feasibility Study for Belgrade Waste Water
Management” has as its main goal to form a detail overview of
sewerage system conditions in Serbian municipalities based on
collection and analysis of relevant data related to water
distribution/consumption, basic demographic, waste water
treatment, etc. This study provides the basis for improvement in
the field of waste water elimination in Serbia, which would
enable the provision of reliable and sufficient drinking water
supply, health protection of the population, water protections,
environmental protection and protection from floods. |
| Sweden |
The Urban Water Programme |
The Urban Water research programme
aims at developing a comprehensive support for strategic
decisions on future design and operation of sustainable water
and wastewater systems. Decision support includes providing
sustainability criteria, knowledge about different systems, and
general methods and tools to be used for the production and
presentation of knowledge. An important prerequisite for Urban
Water systems analysis is to adopt a definition of an urban
water management system that includes the technical structure,
the organization and the users of the system. |
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Monitoring
|
Country |
Initiative |
Summary Description |
| UNICEF |
Joint
Monitoring Programme |
The goals of the JMP are to report
on the status of water supply and sanitation, and to support
countries in their efforts to monitor this sector, which will
enable better planning and management. JMP assessments were made
in 1991, 1993, 1996 and 2000 (The Global Water Supply and
Sanitation Assessment - 2000 Report). In 2004, a midterm
assessment was produced, which measured progress towards the
Millennium Development Goals' (MDG) drinking-water and
sanitation targets. |
| UNEP |
GEMS/Water Programme |
The United Nations GEMS/Water
Programme provides scientifically-sound data and information on
the state and trends of global inland water quality required as
a basis for the sustainable management of the world's freshwater
to support global environmental assessments and decision- making
processes. |
| WHO |
Joint
Monitoring Programme |
The goals of the JMP are to report
on the status of water supply and sanitation, and to support
countries in their efforts to monitor this sector, which will
enable better planning and management. JMP assessments were made
in 1991, 1993, 1996 and 2000 (The Global Water Supply and
Sanitation Assessment - 2000 Report). In 2004, a midterm
assessment was produced, which measured progress towards the
Millennium Development Goals' (MDG) drinking-water and
sanitation targets. |
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Financing
|
Country |
Initiative |
Summary Description |
|
EU |
EU Water Initiative |
At the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg (WSSD), the EU launched the Water Initiative (EUWI)
designed to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) and WSSD targets for drinking water and
sanitation, within the context of an integrated approach to
water resources management. The EUWI is conceived as a catalyst
and a foundation on which future action can be built to
contribute to meeting the water and sanitation MGDs. |
|
UNHABITAT |
UN-Habitat Water and Sanitation Trust Fund |
This is a multi-donor programme facility supported by Canada,
the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden and benefiting some 14
countries in Africa and nine countries in Asia. The Trust Fund
supports capacity-building for pro-poor governance in delivery
and management of urban water and sanitation. |
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