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Book Synopsis Development of Methods for Monitoring the Water and Sanitation Sector at Different Scales Through Human Rights Lenses by : Óscar Flores Baquero
Download or read book Development of Methods for Monitoring the Water and Sanitation Sector at Different Scales Through Human Rights Lenses written by Óscar Flores Baquero and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El reconocimiento del Derecho Humano al Agua y Saneamiento (DHAS) a través de las resoluciones de la Asamblea General y del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas en 2010 representa un gran avance en el sector del Agua, Saneamiento e Higiene ya que otorga a todos los seres humanos el derecho a la provisión de unos estándares mínimos en relación a estos servicios. Tres hechos sientan las bases que motivan la investigación: i) las instituciones internacionales tienen la potestad de supervisar el cumplimiento del Derecho Humano por parte de los Estados pero las herramientas necesarias para esta tarea aún han sido definidas, ii) este hito influye en la gobernanza y la toma de decisiones a diferentes escalas y iii) la medición del acceso al agua en la nueva era de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible exige tomar en cuenta el marco de los derechos humanos. Esto supone por un lado que su contenido debe ser considerado a la hora de conceptualizar el nivel de servicio a través de indicadores adecuados y por el otro, exige dar seguimiento a la reducción de las desigualdades. Este trabajo contribuye de manera significativa a cada uno de los tres retos presentados. En primer lugar, se identifican las plataformas JMP WHO/UNICEF y GL15S como mecanismos de especial interés para aquellos que tienen el mandato de vigilar el cumplimiento del derecho, lo cual contribuye de alguna forma al desafío planteado. En este sentido, la información que ofrecen ha sido analizada tomando en consideración el marco de los derechos humanos. Se ha construido una matriz para identificar específicamente de qué manera estos datos se podrían combinar para la vigilancia del DHAS en un sentido amplio. La nueva propuesta de JMP contribuye considerablemente con indicadores de resultados para medir el disfrute de los titulares de derechos y GL15S añade indicadores estructurales y de proceso para medir la conducta de los titulares de deberes. Sin embargo, todavía quedarían vacíos de información y en este sentido la tesis contribuye con algunas ideas acerca de la forma en que se podrían abordar estas deficiencias. En segundo lugar, se propone una metodología para la medición y el seguimiento del acceso al agua en zonas rurales haciendo uso del marco conceptual del derecho humano al agua. Los diferentes criterios del derecho han sido incluidos en encuestas y entrevistas estructuradas que han sido implementadas en hogares y comités de agua rurales, respectivamente. Se analizan y discuten las ventajas y los retos relacionados con la utilización de este marco. Además, el enfoque proporciona elementos con potencial para la definición de políticas que han sido discutidos. Por último, esta investigación desarrolla y testea una metodología para medir disparidades a nivel intra-comunitario basadas en los criterios normativos del derecho humano al agua. Para ello se lleva a cabo un muestreo estratificado donde se definen dos tipologías de casas; aquellas que consumen agua gestionada por los comités de ahia potable y las que se abastece de agua por sus propios medios. Este enfoque implica tomar en consideración poblaciones muy reducidas y por lo tanto se debe prestar especial atención a los tamaños de muestra y las incertidumbres asociadas a las estimaciones. La metodología propuesta es práctica a la hora de localizar y caracterizar con precisión la situación de sectores minoritarios en el seno de las comunidades rurales y permite ir más allá de lo que ofrecen los estimadores de tendencia central. Esto implica mayores costes para la recolección de datos en terreno que los enfoques tradicionales. Éstos son asumibles dada la relevancia de la propuesta desde una perspectiva de derechos humanos, la cual exige desarrollar instrumentos adecuados para la definición de políticas con enfoque de equidad en el ámbito local. Además la investigación destaca cómo podrían utilizarse los resultados para los procesos de toma de decisiones.
Book Synopsis Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners by : Robert Bos
Download or read book Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners written by Robert Bos and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manual highlights the human rights principles and criteria in relation to drinking water and sanitation. It explains the international legal obligations in terms of operational policies and practice that will support the progressive realisation of universal access. The Manual introduces a human rights perspective that will add value to informed decision making in the daily routine of operators, managers and regulators. It also encourages its readership to engage actively in national dialogues where the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are translated into national and local policies, laws and regulations. Creating such an enabling environment is, in fact, only the first step in the process towards progressive realisation. Allocation of roles and responsibilities is the next step, in an updated institutional and operational set up that helps apply a human rights lens to the process of reviewing and revising the essential functions of operators, service providers and regulators.
Book Synopsis Strengthening Systems and Realising Human Rights: StrateStrengthening Systems and Realising Human Rights: Strategies to Progress Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) by : Juliet Willetts
Download or read book Strengthening Systems and Realising Human Rights: StrateStrengthening Systems and Realising Human Rights: Strategies to Progress Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) written by Juliet Willetts and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores two frameworks for progressing structural change that supports safe, universal and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): systems strengthening and the human rights to water and sanitation. As such, it elaborates and defines the intersection between these two areas. Whilst inherently interconnected, the two also represent different entry points for change, with opportunity for increased intentional integration to improve progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation. Systems strengthening is widely recognised as foundational for ensuring access to sustainable, equitable WASH services in low- and middle-income countries, leaving no-one behind. Such systems comprise clear sector policy and strategy, effective institutional arrangements, sufficient sector financing, regular cycles of planning, monitoring and review and capacity development across the sector; as well as the people, interactions, power relations and behaviours that shape these elements. Equally, the human rights to water and sanitation provide numerous entry points for change, both in supporting people to claim and realise their rights and in supporting and advocating for governments at all levels to respond. Effective approaches to strengthen systems and realise the rights depend on inclusive processes that meaningfully involve people and advance equality, including gender equality. They facilitate mutual learning, capacity building and increased accountability, promote informed choice and place development in the hands of those it concerns. In Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.
Book Synopsis Strengthening the Human Right to Sanitation as an Instrument for Inclusive Development by : Pedi Obani
Download or read book Strengthening the Human Right to Sanitation as an Instrument for Inclusive Development written by Pedi Obani and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a third of the current 7.3 billion people worldwide are burdened with poor sanitation services. The resulting social, relational and ecological exclusion make the realisation of the human right to sanitation (HRS) a critical concern development concern. However, the literature has evolved in a largely compartmentalised manner, focusing on the formal recognition of the HRS in domestic legal systems, without sufficiently addressing the drivers of poor sanitation services. This research expounds on the impact of the HRS on human wellbeing and the environment within the context of a developing country like Nigeria as a case study. The findings show that contrary to the focus in the literature, the drivers of poor sanitation services are not confined to legal factors, such as the formal recognition of the HRS within domestic legal systems. Rather, the drivers include social, economic and environmental limitations to improved sanitation services. Based on the findings, the book argues that the focus in the literature on the formal recognition of the HRS in national legal systems is insufficient for tackling the main drivers of poor sanitation services. It is therefore necessary to reformulate the HRS discourse using complementary governance instruments that advance social, relational and ecological inclusion.
Book Synopsis Innovations in WASH Impact Measures by : Evan Thomas
Download or read book Innovations in WASH Impact Measures written by Evan Thomas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) at its core. A dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) declares a commitment to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all." Monitoring progress toward this goal will be challenging: direct measures of water and sanitation service quality and use are either expensive or elusive. However, reliance on household surveys poses limitations and likely overstated progress during the Millennium Development Goal period. In Innovations in WASH Impact Measures: Water and Sanitation Measurement Technologies and Practices to Inform the Sustainable Development Goals, we review the landscape of proven and emerging technologies, methods, and approaches that can support and improve on the WASH indicators proposed for SDG target 6.1, "by 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all," and target 6.2, "by 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations." Although some of these technologies and methods are readily available, other promising approaches require further field evaluation and cost reductions. Emergent technologies, methods, and data-sharing platforms are increasingly aligned with program impact monitoring. Improved monitoring of water and sanitation interventions may allow more cost-effective and measurable results. In many cases, technologies and methods allow more complete and impartial data in time to allow program improvements. Of the myriad monitoring and evaluation methods, each has its own advantages and limitations. Surveys, ethnographies, and direct observation give context to more continuous and objective electronic sensor data. Overall, combined methodologies can provide a more comprehensive and instructive depiction of WASH usage and help the international development community measure our progress toward reaching the SDG WASH goals.
Download or read book Water is Life written by Anne Hellum and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approached water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue. Empirical case studies from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe show how coexisting international, national and local regulations of water and sanitation respond to the ways in which different groups of rural and urban women gain access to water for personal, domestic and livelihood purposes. The authors, who are lawyers, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists, explore how women cope in contexts where they lack secure rights, and participation in water governance institutions, formal and informal. The research shows how women - as producers of family food - rely on water from multiple sources that are governed by community based norms and institutions which recognise the right to water for livelihood. How these common pool water resources - due to protection gaps in both international and national law - are threatened by large-scale development and commercialisation initiatives, facilitated through national permit systems, is a key concern. The studies demonstrate that existing water governance structures lack mechanisms which make them accountable to poor and vulnerable water users on the ground, most importantly women. The findings thus underscore the need to intensify measures to hold states accountable, not just in water services provision, but in assuring the basic human right to clean drinking water and sanitation; and also to protect water for livelihoods.
Book Synopsis The measurement and monitoring of water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) affordability by :
Download or read book The measurement and monitoring of water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) affordability written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation by :
Download or read book Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to assist policy makers and practitioners in implementing the right to water and sanitation. This publication, written in non-legal language, addresses the vital need to clarify how human rights can be practically realised in the water and sanitation sector. The Manual recognizes that implementing the right to water and sanitation is not limited to legal recognition or allocation of funds. Rather, it provides the basis for practical reforms in many areas of water supply and sanitation and in water resource management that can help make the water and sanitation sector operate in a manner that is more pro-poor, accountable and inclusive. The Manual will assist governments to operationalise under the international human rights treaties that they have ratified and serve as a useful tool to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals on water and sanitation.
Book Synopsis Improving Transparency, Integrity, and Accountability in Water Supply and Sanitation by :
Download or read book Improving Transparency, Integrity, and Accountability in Water Supply and Sanitation written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will serve as a useful tool for those who wish to diagnose, analyze, and take action against systemic corruption in the water and sanitation sectors. On a global scale, more than 1 billion people live without access to safe, potable water, in part because of poor governance and corruption. Illegal connections and substantial losses caused by deferred maintenance have eroded the revenues of water utilities, leading to a downward spiral in performance. Embezzlement of funds, bribes for access to illegal water connections, manipulation of meter counters, and collusion in public contracts add to the litany of corrupt practices. This manual will serve as a practical guide for governments, civil society organizations, and citizens themselves in their quest for a model of service provision that responds to the pressing needs of people in the developing world.
Book Synopsis Stemming the Tide by : Madeline Baer
Download or read book Stemming the Tide written by Madeline Baer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable tide of neoliberal reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state and reorienting economies toward market-led policymaking. Water privatization, one of the more unpopular policies of the neoliberal development paradigm, sparked a particularly fierce debate and gave rise to a movement of self-proclaimed "water warriors" who advocated for legal recognition of water as a basic human right to be protected and fulfilled by states. Broadening the debate, Madeline Baer questions whether either approach -- the market approach or a human rights-based approach -- leads to improved access to water. More specifically, Baer explores how the human right to water and sanitation is fulfilled in different contexts, whether neoliberal policies like privatization pose a threat to the right to water, and whether rights fulfillment leads to meaningful social change. Using two case studies -- Chile, the most extreme case of water privatization in the developing world, and Bolivia, the birthplace of the global movement for the human right to water -- Stemming the Tide uncovers the conditions under which the right to water and sanitation can be fulfilled, as well as the obstacles to fulfilment. Ultimately this book argues that deepening mechanisms for citizen participation, strengthening accountability, and creating alternatives to the state/market binary can help achieve meaningful social transformation in the water sector.
Book Synopsis On the Right Track by : Catarina de Albuquerque
Download or read book On the Right Track written by Catarina de Albuquerque and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium of good practices on the human right to water and sanitation provides discussion and analysis of existing practices, with the aim of inspiring policy and decision-makers, practitioners, activists and civil society in general to engage with the rights to water and sanitation and to assist in the difficult but crucial process of ensuring that everyone has access to safe drinking water and sanitation services for all daily personal and domestic purposes. Practices have been organised into four main types, and the chapters are named accordingly. Chapter one examines State actions and the legal and institutional frameworks that promote the realisation of the rights to water and sanitation. Chapter two considers financing for the sector, and presents good practices for targeted budgeting and appropriate subsidies to ensure affordability of services for all, with a particular focus on the difficulties of securing sufficient funding for realising the right to sanitation. Chapter three looks at what non-State stakeholders are doing to promote and protect the rights to water and sanitation, and presents specific practices for the delivery of water and sanitation services to hard-to-reach areas, and for those groups that may be discriminated against. Chapter four presents practices that demonstrate how States and other actors can be held accountable through the monitoring of water and sanitation services, including water quality and affordability of services, by monitoring budgets and plans to check whether promises of funding are fulfilled and allocations are spent as intended, and through formal and informal adjudication processes such as court cases and the role of national human rights institutions. The concluding chapter discusses gaps in the practices, the areas where there continue to be problems in both understanding and implementing the rights, and attempts to look into the future to see where these practices may take us.
Book Synopsis Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa by : Asit K. Biswas
Download or read book Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa written by Asit K. Biswas and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically and comprehensively analyzes the legal development of the concept of water as a human right; its implications for the national governments, as well as the impact of the implementation of this concept for international and national organizations.
Book Synopsis Safe Water and Sanitation for a Healthier World by : Jay Rajapakse
Download or read book Safe Water and Sanitation for a Healthier World written by Jay Rajapakse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a review of global progress made towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): Clean Water and Sanitation, part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It builds on the latest data and statistics provided by the UN and other international organizations through chapters written by a wide variety of authors, including representatives of government ministries and departments, members of international organizations specializing in this area, academics and senior professionals. The book details how SDG 6 is being approached in a number of geographic regions, with each chapter describing developments in a particular region or country. Supporting case studies presented in the book illustrate progress, achievements and challenges that remain in the effort to reach SDG 6 by 2030. The book is intended for academics/researchers, scientists, policymakers, practitioners, and all stakeholders working at the global, regional, national and local levels who support or are engaged with the implementation of SDG 6.
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Book Synopsis Sanitation, Drinking-water and Health: Achievements and Challenges Ahead by : WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Download or read book Sanitation, Drinking-water and Health: Achievements and Challenges Ahead written by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report deals primarily with the analysis of the drinking-water and sanitation situation in the member countries of the Thematic Working Group on Water Sanitation and Hygiene (TWG WSH) based on statistics published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) updated in 2015. This document also provides key information on selected health and development issues for TWG WSH member countries. The member countries covered in this report are: Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China Indonesia Japan the Lao People s Democratic Republic Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar the Philippines the Republic of Korea Singapore Thailand and Viet Nam. Previous documents prepared by WHO for the TWG WSH include extensive analyses of the drinking-water sanitation and hygiene sector as a whole based on country-level information. A key finding of this report is that the TWG WSH region has succeeded in meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking-water and sanitation which is to halve by 2015 the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation (UN 2017). Individually nine TWG WSH countries achieved the MDG sanitation target but four countries (i.e. Cambodia Indonesia Mongolia and the Philippines) did not. All TWG WSH countries met the MDG drinking-water target except Mongolia which fell short of the target by 13 percentage points. Overall 77% of people in the TWG WSH region are using improved sanitation facilities whereas 94% are using improved drinking-water sources (UNICEF and WHO 2015). Despite an impressive effort made to provide drinking-water and sanitation infrastructure to the residents in this region about one quarter of the population still lacks access to improved sanitation and 7% lacks access to improved drinking-water. Water-related diseases including diarrhoeal diseases are significant causes of death among children under 5 years old in the region. Almost 30 000 people in the TWG WSH region especially children under 5 die each year due to water sanitation and hygiene related diseases (WHO 2014).
Book Synopsis The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation by : Léo Heller
Download or read book The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation written by Léo Heller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (HRtWS) uncovers why some groups around the world are still excluded from these rights. Léo Heller, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, draws on his own research in nine countries and reviews the theoretical, legal, and political issues involved. The first part presents the origins of the HRtWS, their legal and normative meanings and the debates surrounding them. Part II discusses the drivers, mainly external to the water and sanitation sector, that shape public policies and explain why individuals and groups are included in or excluded from access to services. In Part III, public policies guided by the realization of HRtWS are addressed. Part IV highlights populations and spheres of living that have been particularly neglected in efforts to promote access to services.
Book Synopsis Security and Human Right to Water in Central Asia by : Miguel Ángel Pérez Martín
Download or read book Security and Human Right to Water in Central Asia written by Miguel Ángel Pérez Martín and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact and implications of the declaration of human right to water and sanitation access for human security in Central Asia. It analyzes the current risks and threats arising from mismanagement of water resources in Central Asia through the different dimensions of human security: environmental, economic, social, and political. Identifying the main actors involved in water conflict in the region, the author pays particular attention to the multilateral security organizations operating in the region, OSCE, NATO, SCO, and CSTO, and discusses whether their security policies have been effective in addressing these conflicts.
Book Synopsis Sex-disaggregated indicators for water assessment, monitoring and reporting by : Seager, Joni
Download or read book Sex-disaggregated indicators for water assessment, monitoring and reporting written by Seager, Joni and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
