Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 58
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- One project, aimed at benefiting populations in small towns, supported rehabilitating and expanding piped drinking water systems but built only a handful of public sanitary facilities while training local artisans to produce slabs required for latrines and stimulating a micro savings scheme for residents to purchase those building materials. In that project, support to sanitation was framed through the community-led total sanitation methodology aiming to mobilize communities to completely eliminate open defecation without any external financial input. Thus, it is based on spurring demand creation and behavioural change from users. However, without adequate, continuous guidance and financial assistance, some users may sacrifice essential resources in adopting service levels that are actually unsafe and do not represent a real gain from a human rights perspective.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Project selection, design and implementation
- Paragraph number
- 58
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