Different levels and types of services and the human rights to water and sanitation 2015, para. 96
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- The Special Rapporteur encourages States to develop more specific monitoring processes, considering the relevant indicators for their specific context. A central tenet of such processes is not only to monitor whether certain benchmarks have been met and reward States for meeting these targets, but also to measure the progress States make. Such a measurement would acknowledge that States have very different starting points and baselines for achieving universal access to water and sanitation. Looking at the Millennium Development Goals, they did not reward progress in countries that started from a very low baseline, even if their efforts were tremendous. Ethiopia, for example, improved access to sanitation from 3 per cent in 1990 to 21 per cent in 2010, thus making significant progress, but falling short of the Millennium Development Goals target. One shortcoming of the Millennium Development Goals measure is that such progress is not acknowledged, and monitoring fails to give justice to the concept of the progressive realization of human rights. The Special Rapporteur encourages States to develop models that can associate a given type of service with the realization of the rights to water and sanitation, while carefully taking into consideration the context in which it is applied.
- 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
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 96
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