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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 85
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- A variety of operational tools was observed among the different funders, some with greater relevance to the human rights to water and sanitation than others. The extent to which those tools can guarantee that development cooperation projects will have positive impacts on human rights depends on at least two factors. First, tools based explicitly on the human rights framework will naturally be more apt to incorporate all relevant standards and cause minimal negative impacts. Recognizing that water and sanitation projects are parts of broader, dynamic contexts that can limit a given project’s results, such tools must ensure adaptability in order to maximize the progressive realization of the human rights to water and sanitation and other related rights. Second, mainstreaming the use of such tools by operational teams involved in project implementation will avoid the risk of standards being applied selectively.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 91a
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- [In the project selection, design and implementation stages, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the importance of measures and safeguards with the specific aim of ensuring human rights compliance (ibid., para. 74 (b)) and recommends that funders:] Balance water and sanitation projects and coverage of those services between urban and rural areas in a way consistent with the progressive realization of the rights to water and sanitation in each context;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 91b
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- [In the project selection, design and implementation stages, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the importance of measures and safeguards with the specific aim of ensuring human rights compliance (ibid., para. 74 (b)) and recommends that funders:] Ensure that the selection, design and implementation of projects apply the framework for the human rights to water and sanitation, notably prioritizing those people in the most vulnerable situations;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 84
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- Similar to the broad conclusion reached in the first report (A/71/302, paras. 41-44), the Special Rapporteur finds that the explicit commitment to human rights in the six funders’ policies constitutes a heterogeneous patchwork. While some funders’ policies consider the human rights framework, particularly the human rights to water and sanitation, others are only sporadically aligned with those rights and reveal varying degrees of clarity regarding their application to development cooperation. However, even in cases where the human rights framework was adequately incorporated in funders’ policies, the Special Rapporteur observed significant gaps in the application of this framework during project implementation. The root causes of such gaps are varied, including non-implementation of applicable policies at the project stage, non-integration of the human rights framework in the funder’s policies and tools and the absence of a human rights approach in the project selection and design stages.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89e
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- [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Ensure that access to water and sanitation services is not conditioned by land tenure in law and in regulatory frameworks;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 87
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- Regulatory frameworks are essential for the implementation of the human rights to water and sanitation and must support the State’s obligations with regard to these rights. International human rights law does not call for a particular choice of regulatory framework. What is essential from a human rights perspective is that those carrying out regulatory functions be immune to pressures from any illegitimate interests and that the main objectives of regulation be aligned with the water and sanitation human rights standards and principles. Regulation plays a key role in monitoring service providers’ compliance with the normative content of the human rights to water and sanitation and in ensuring accountability. Identifying and avoiding violations of these rights and retrogressions in their progressive realization is also key for the regulation of water and sanitation services. As public bodies, regulatory actors are bound by States’ international human rights obligations, and their functions should go beyond mere policing and include supporting and influencing policy changes in line with the human rights framework.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 91f
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- [In the project selection, design and implementation stages, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the importance of measures and safeguards with the specific aim of ensuring human rights compliance (ibid., para. 74 (b)) and recommends that funders:] Provide, in projects supporting institutional development and policies, lasting improvements to the capacity of local authorities and different stakeholders to actually adopt water and sanitation services in a way consistent with the human rights framework.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89d
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- [Relating to funders’ policy, the Special Rapporteur recommends:] That funder States adopt national legislation recognizing the human rights to water and sanitation so as to ensure additional guarantees that those rights are applied in development cooperation policies and activities.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90a
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- [Relating to funders’ operational tools, the Special Rapporteur recommends that funders:] Translate the human rights commitment in their policies into operational tools and training tailored to the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation in particular contexts;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89a
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- [Relating to funders’ policy, the Special Rapporteur recommends:] That policies that specifically incorporate the standards and principles of the human rights to water and sanitation in their entirety be established so that those rights are reflected when setting priorities and strategies for development cooperation activities;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89b
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- [Relating to funders’ policy, the Special Rapporteur recommends:] That a focused strategy on water and sanitation be established in accordance with the human rights framework, with emphasis on its prioritization so that it is not subsumed into broader strategies or other thematic policies;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90g
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- [In addition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that regulatory actors:] Support and influence policy formulation and legislative changes in line with the human rights to water and sanitation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 93b
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- [Finally, the Special Rapporteur recommends:] That the Human Rights Council consider in the universal periodic review the issue of development cooperation in the context of water and sanitation services.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89c
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- [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Ensure that the mission, mandate and objectives of regulatory actors incorporate the principle of progressive realization of the human rights to water and sanitation without discrimination of any kind;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 93a
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- [Finally, the Special Rapporteur recommends:] That the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights request funder and partner States to report on the issue of development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation and to provide a venue for civil society to submit “alternative reports”;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90a
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- [In addition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that regulatory actors:] Comply with the State’s international human rights obligations with regard to the rights to water and sanitation and take targeted steps towards the full realization of these rights;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90i
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- [In addition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that regulatory actors:] Safeguard the right of individuals to submit complaints when the enjoyment of their rights to water and sanitation has been compromised by service providers.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89l
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- [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Inform and train regulatory actors on the practical implications of the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation in their area of work.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90b
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- [In addition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that regulatory actors:] Carry out independent monitoring of service providers’ compliance with the normative content of the human rights to water and sanitation and ensure that in cases of retrogression providers address the root causes of these violations;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90h
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- [In addition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that regulatory actors:] Provide clear and relevant information on their policies, procedures and activities and indicate how they contribute to the progressive realization of the human rights to water and sanitation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 92d
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- [In the assessment and monitoring stage, the Special Rapporteur recommends that funders:] Prepare studies that assess all stages of the funder’s activities in the human rights development cycle, envisaging the application of the related findings to improve the funder’s contributions to the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89a
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- [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Adopt water and sanitation policies and strategies incorporating the human rights to water and sanitation, and take deliberate, concrete and targeted steps to establish a regulatory framework informed by these rights and regulatory bodies operating in an impartial, transparent and rights-based manner;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 74h
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- [In line with the above, with respect to development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States and multilateral funders:] Correct the imbalance in funding of water supply and sanitation services, giving due priority to the sanitation sector and particular consideration to the related needs of the most disadvantaged populations, and adopt appropriate technology that takes into account the sociocultural characteristics of the target populations;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 73
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- The present report provides an exploratory and preliminary approach to analysing development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector between States and multilateral agencies, based on secondary data, published articles and responses to a questionnaire sent to several stakeholders. Some of the issues presented will require more thorough and in-depth research, to be performed through engagement with relevant funders and partner States, and will be addressed in a subsequent report to be submitted in 2017. That report will include, but will not be limited to, a review of experiences that illustrate the stakes involved in applying the human rights framework to development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector carried out by States, multilateral agencies and (possibly) non-governmental organizations. Given that information on those experiences will be essential in complementing and validating some of the information provided in the present report, the conclusions and recommendations herein must be considered with attention to their preliminary character.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 75b
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- [Regarding the High-level Panel on Water, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] Participatory mechanisms be implemented that fully include relevant stakeholders in the decision-making process under the Panel's mandate.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 74c
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- [In line with the above, with respect to development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States and multilateral funders:] Ensure that effective mechanisms are in place to allow individuals and groups whose human rights are negatively affected by development cooperation activities to lodge complaints and to hold development agencies accountable;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 74g
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- [In line with the above, with respect to development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States and multilateral funders:] Prioritize funding that actually benefits the poorest and most disadvantaged and seek to end disparities in access to services;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 75a
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- [Regarding the High-level Panel on Water, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] The mandate of the Panel be adjusted to ensure that its recommendations related to the achievement of Goal 6 possess a clear basis in the principles and normative content of the human rights to water and sanitation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 77n
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- [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Complement quantitative data on water, sanitation and hygiene with qualitative methods, to improve understanding and interpretation of gender-related issues and to inform and validate survey methods and techniques.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 74b
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- [In line with the above, with respect to development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States and multilateral funders:] Develop measures and safeguards with the specific aim of ensuring human rights compliance throughout the project selection process;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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