Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 37
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- Neither that Framework nor those operational policies make any specific mention of sanitation services, while references to ensuring water supply are generally subsumed in other project themes, such as the resettlement of populations. In a general requirement regarding the provision of services to communities, one of the Framework’s safeguards pledges that partner States will be held to apply the concept of universal access, which is understood by the World Bank to mean unimpeded access for people of all ages and abilities in different situations and under various circumstances. That policy provision remains ambiguous in the Bank’s safeguard policies as it does not specifically address the provision of water and sanitation services in their different levels. Thus, those policies do not adequately safeguard essential elements of the human rights to water and sanitation, including service availability, safety/quality, affordability and acceptability, not to mention a more thorough, sector-specific description of accessibility.
- 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)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Policy frameworks of funders
- Paragraph number
- 37
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