Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 35
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- The European Union’s indirect focus on water and sanitation services in its most recent policy is an expression of the European Commission’s inclination to diminish the role of water, sanitation and hygiene as a stand-alone sector of the organization’s development cooperation agenda. Relevant officials confirmed this reprioritization to the Special Rapporteur. The low profile of the sector in the European Union cooperation policy raises concerns as to the organization’s capacity to align its operations with the human rights to water and sanitation, particularly since the other sectors that encompass water and sanitation do not incorporate that specific human rights framework. In 2015, the European Parliament recommended that the Commission give high priority to the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in partner States, recognizing the human rights dimensions of access to those services in development cooperation activities. The Special Rapporteur observed that the Commission has still not given meaningful consideration to those recommendations. Commentators consider that the lack of “normative coherence” in the European Union’s policy on water and sanitation has diminished its ability to conduct transformative development, an ambition associated, inter alia, with the aims of Sustainable Development Goal 6.
- 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
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Policy frameworks of funders
- Paragraph number
- 35
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