Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 48
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- Through the first European Union action plan on human rights and democracy (2012-2014), the European Union coordinated the creation of a toolbox to contribute towards a rights-based approach to development cooperation. Published in 2014, the toolbox, entitled “A rights-based approach, encompassing all human rights for European Union development cooperation”, aims to outline how the organization will integrate human rights principles into the conceptualization and implementation of its development activities. The toolbox provides details on action to be taken at headquarters and in the field for synchronization between those units. However, probably due to the toolbox’s generic approach, human rights analyses have been judged to be less evident in water and sanitation programmes. Officials reported to the Special Rapporteur that field office teams still lack comprehensive awareness on how to align field operations with the human rights to water and sanitation, as political and civil rights are generally given more prominence. Such insufficiencies were previously identified in an evaluation of European Union development cooperation activities. However, it was reported that ongoing training on the rights-based approach at headquarters and country offices has aimed to address, inter alia, the rights to water and sanitation.
- 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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Operational tools of funders
- Paragraph number
- 48
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