Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 54
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- It is clear that the various drivers for development cooperation in water and sanitation in recent decades have been predominantly inspired by principles other than the human rights framework and that the processes and outcomes of billions of dollars invested in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries, have barely involved human rights-based interventions. Principles such as equality and non-discrimination, access to information, participation, accountability and sustainability have not been mainstreamed in the relevant policies. Nor has the human rights principle of progressive realization using the maximum available resources been a priority in a number of countries. Furthermore, some normative content with respect to the human rights to water and sanitation has also been neglected in those processes, especially affordability and acceptability, the former having been impacted by cost-recovery policies attached to development cooperation and the latter by the common practice of technology transfer without due attention to the sociocultural preferences of the target populations. It is important to emphasize that cultural acceptability must be defined by the rights-holders, not the duty-bearers, so that levels and quality of access will not be determined on the basis of the stereotypes held by entities linked to duty-bearers.
- 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
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 54
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