A/67/270 monitoring. In this context, there is a shared understanding among engineers, statisticians, economists and human rights lawyers that the Millennium Development Goals did not put sufficient pressure on Governments to ensure their efforts are reaching the poorest and most marginalized populations. 7 11. The Joint Monitoring Programme has created four working groups that are examining water, sanitation, hygiene and equity 8 and non-discrimination, respectively. The Special Rapporteur serves as Chair of the Working Group on Equity and Non-Discrimination, and has participated in the discussions in the other three working groups. Their role is to advise decision makers on potential goals, targets and indicators for the post-2015 development agenda and to assess the technical feasibility of monitoring. The Working Group on Equity and Non-Discrimination is made up of human rights experts, sector professionals and data specialists, seeking to lay out proposals that meet human rights standards, that are relevant to the sector and that are feasible from the perspective of data collection. 12. In the view of the Special Rapporteur, the findings and recommendations of the Working Group on Equity and Non-Discrimination at its May 2012 meeting bring a valuable and much-needed multisectoral expertise to this global discussion. However, she wishes to note that the present report reflects only her own position and understanding of how to integrate equality and non-discrimination into the future framework as a whole. In her opinion, these findings can also be used for discussion of the post-2015 agenda for other sectors, including health, education and access to other essential services. 13. The report is organized in three main sections. It starts by exploring the importance of global monitoring and human rights in order to effectively address discrimination and inequality. It situates these questions in the broader discussion on how non-discrimination and equality should be integrated in future goals, targets and indicators across the board and also specifically in relation to water, sanitation and hygiene as a priority development area no longer to be subsumed under other sectors. It discusses proposals for monitoring non-discrimination and equality, inter alia, specifically for marginalized groups, addressing geographic inequalities, individual and group inequalities relevant to every country in the world, and for intrahousehold access to water and sanitation services before ending with a set of conclusions and recommendations. II. Development, global monitoring and human rights A. The need for global monitoring 14. In September 2000, world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, making an unprecedented commitment to eradicate global poverty (see General Assembly resolution 55/2). This high-level political commitment and the subsequent focus on a set of measurable, time-bound Goals created a common framework for assessing progress among countries by 2015. The Millennium __________________ 7 8 12-45653 See WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, Report of the first Consultation on Post-2015 Monitoring of Drinking-Water and Sanitation, Berlin, 3-5 May 2011. See sect. III of the present report for a definition of equality and equity. 5