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Home > WEHAB: Framework for Action on Water and Sanitation (2002) - Updated: 21-08-2002 9:53 am
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One of five thematic papers on the WEHAB initiative proposed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).
The WEHAB initiative seeks to provide focus and impetus to action in the five key thematic areas of Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management. As part of the process leading up to the Johannesburg Summit, five thematic papers have been prepared following initial consultations with concerned institutions within the UN system. The papers are not intended to be consensus documents reflecting the totality of UN system activities in these areas. Rather, they try to provide a broad view of existing normative and programmatic frameworks in each area, to highlight interlinkages among the sectors, to identify key gaps and challenges and to highlight where further action is needed.
The 40-page booklet on ‘A Framework for Action on Water and Sanitation’ (dated August 2002) provides an overview of key issues and challenges, emphasizing the central role of water in sustainable development and describing how Water is essential to progress in the four other priority areas of WEHAB (Energy, Heath, Agriculture, and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management).
There is an overview of the challenges and obstacles that have been encountered in implementing the various recommendations that have come out of international conferences and meetings over the last two decades, Some of the issues involved in translating challenges into actions are enumerated. There follows examples of frameworks for action for addressing the challenges and obstacles, with nine action areas being identified with associated indicative targets and examples of activities. These action areas take up such issues as safeguarding human health and mobilizing financial resources. The role of partnerships in helping developing countries achieve water and sanitation-related objectives for sustainable development is also discussed.
A thirty-year overview describes the major conferences and international agreements that provide the broad background for today’s water policies and decision-making A closing chapter presents a sampling of UN system capacities in water and sanitation.
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http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/summit_docs/wehab_papers/wehab_water_sanitation.pdf
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