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Sustainability and non-retrogression in the realisation of the rights to water and sanitation 2013, para. 42
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- While support and participation of donors and NGOs in water and sanitation service delivery is welcome, there are challenges to sustainability when they become service providers and questions of accountability and transparency arise. A key risk to sustainability is the fact that few NGOs provide services on a permanent or long-term basis. Most usually disengage from projects after a certain period, which may have negative impacts on the long-term viability of services if no proper sustainability strategy is put in place. Even with the best of intentions, these systems may be responding to immediate and concrete needs to the detriment of building a system that can remain functional over time. While providing immediate access is important, it is equally central to guarantee long-term operation and maintenance, and to plan with government and communities for phased exits and local ownership. The lack of long-term focus has been linked to a lack of political incentives, particularly for donors, to put resources towards maintaining existing infrastructure, over building new ones that give better visibility for their investment and support.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2013
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 39
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- The Special Rapporteur is of the view that a forward-looking post-2015 development agenda must be ambitious. It must tackle disparities and emphasize non-discrimination and equality as core principles. This view is shared increasingly by States, United Nations entities, development actors and civil society organizations. This comes from practical evidence found on the ground. Appallingly, much of the progress made since 2000 has left the most marginalized in a similar situation. Indeed, many agree that the current set of Millennium Development Goals, which focus on average progress, has masked the inequalities that lie behind these averages, thus requiring a new method of measuring progress. According to the United Nations Development Group, inequalities have been identified as one of only nine major areas for consultation at the global level. This sentiment is widely shared by those working in the water and sanitation sectors, agreeing that "concerns of non-discrimination and equity related to fulfilling the right to access water and sanitation should be reflected in future indicators".
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90d
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- [In addition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that regulatory actors:] Ensure non-discriminatory service coverage by service providers, including to poorer neighbourhoods, informal settlements and rural areas;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90c
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- [In addition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that regulatory actors:] Set and monitor indicators that cover all the elements of the rights and disaggregate them by prohibited grounds of discrimination;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 22
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- The instruments delegating service provision, including contracts, must reflect the national regulatory framework and human rights standards. This means that these instruments should include a clear definition of the human rights responsibilities of service providers, coverage targets to eliminate inequalities in access, sufficient provision for participation, access to information and mechanisms for accountability. While ensuring this, non-State service providers are also expected to respect human rights. To that end, they must exercise due diligence to become aware of and address any potential impact on the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation, including by analysing the proposed delegating instruments from a human rights perspective (see A/HRC/15/31, para. 38), and where appropriate by undertaking human rights impact assessments. The General Assembly has recently called upon non-State actors, including business enterprises, to comply with their responsibility to respect the human rights to water and sanitation, including by cooperating with State investigations into allegations of abuses of these rights, and by progressively engaging with States to detect and remedy such abuses (see General Assembly resolution 70/169, para. 6).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 11
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- The obligation to fulfil has three components: the obligation to facilitate, the obligation to promote and the obligation to provide. The obligation to facilitate requires States to take positive regulatory measures to create an enabling environment for service providers to respect the human rights to water and sanitation as well as to contribute towards the full realization of these rights. Facilitating measures include not only according recognition of these rights within national policies and legal frameworks and adopting national strategies and plans of actions to realize them, but also setting service standards for service providers to comply with, in line with the normative content of the human rights to water and sanitation, monitoring service providers’ compliance with the established standards, and exercising regulatory functions, directly or through a separate body. For example, where, due to a lack of regulation, access to water and sanitation facilities is either not available or inadequate in public buildings, such as schools, prisons or hospitals, or where people living in informal settlements are left with no option but to resort to unregulated informal services, the State is in breach of its obligation to facilitate.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- All
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 14
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- In line with international human rights law, States should therefore use an "intersectionality lens" in all policy initiatives, to ensure that special attention is given to those persons most disadvantaged in the enjoyment of their rights.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- All
- N.A.
- Année
- 2016
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Affordability of water and sanitation services 2015, para. 87m
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- [The Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations. States should take the following measures:] Prohibit disconnections that result from an inability to pay;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2015
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Affordability of water and sanitation services 2015, para. 87l
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- [The Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations. States should take the following measures:] Address corrupt practices that add to the cost of service provision;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2015
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Affordability of water and sanitation services 2015, para. 87k
- Paragraph text
- [The Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations. States should take the following measures:] Put into place strong regulatory frameworks and bodies for ensuring affordability of service provision that covers all types of services;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2015
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Affordability of water and sanitation services 2015, para. 87h
- Paragraph text
- [The Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations. States should take the following measures:] Give careful thought particularly to ensuring the affordability of sanitation provision, where costs are frequently underestimated;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2015
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Affordability of water and sanitation services 2015, para. 85
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- For households that receive water and sanitation through utilities, data is available through the International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities, which includes data on water tariffs charged by a significant number of utilities. Beyond such existing initiatives, a review of potential indicators demonstrates the complexity of monitoring affordability. Determining and monitoring the costs of non-networked supply and including them into measures of affordability is particularly challenging, but essential from the perspective of human rights. Focusing solely on utility tariffs bears the risk of severely underestimating expenses and would paint an overly positive picture of affordability that only captures the better-off, while neglecting the very real challenges that the most disadvantaged people and communities face in accessing water and sanitation. This review shows that monitoring affordability in its complexity (including water, sanitation and hygiene access expenditure) is feasible, but would require a combination and analysis of data from different sources. The Special Rapporteur encourages States and international organizations to explore these options further to ensure more comprehensive monitoring of the affordability of access to services.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2015
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Common violations of the human rights to water and sanitation 2014, para. 76
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- While courts in many jurisdictions are amenable to litigation challenging human rights violations, access to justice should not generally rely on litigation. States must ensure that water and sanitation services are provided within a context of clear rules. They must adopt measures to prevent human rights violations, for instance through carrying out human rights impact assessments. Where violations are being alleged, dispute and complaint mechanisms should be available with the aim of resolving issues quickly and efficiently. Where human rights violations are not adequately addressed, individuals must be able to proceed to court. Being able to turn to the courts - as a last resort - is an essential component of ensuring access to justice. Violations of the rights to water and sanitation have generally been dealt with more effectively in States where constitutional and legislative protections guarantee that those rights are directly or indirectly justiciable. In States where this is not yet the case, courts and governments should be guided by international developments and recognize the rights to water and sanitation as justiciable. Governments should promote the use of international law in interpreting domestic law.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- All
- N.A.
- Année
- 2014
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Common violations of the human rights to water and sanitation 2014, para. 16
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- In its general comment No. 15 (2003) on the right to water, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights builds on a comprehensive understanding of violations, applying the categories of human rights obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the right to water. While the Committee has not yet adopted a general comment on the right to sanitation, it has issued a formal statement recognizing that similar obligations apply, following an approach taken by the Special Rapporteur in her 2009 report to the Council. The present report applies this framework and develops a typology of common violations of the rights to water and sanitation. In addition to the obligations to respect, protect and fulfil, it puts a particular emphasis on equality and non-discrimination, as well as on participation, and also examines extraterritorial obligations. The latter obligations cut across the "respect, protect, fulfil" framework. This typology is not proposed as a rigid classification, being utilized as a framework for surveying the range of violations which must be addressed, with inevitable overlaps in the categories. What is most important is to ensure that no type of violation is ignored and that no victim is denied access to effective remedies.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2014
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 22
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- While many caution that future targets and indicators need to be measurable, and this is certainly true, there is also a tendency to hide behind this technical argument. Others have noted that measurability is an inappropriate standard for political decisions on deprioritizing certain issues, and that data should "be seen as a servant, rather than a master". The current lack of data should not be used as an argument against future monitoring. Rather, the Special Rapporteur calls for data to be collected on certain issues precisely to bring them to light. The current lack of data on certain issues is not accidental. Neglect often coincides with a low political profile. For example, in many countries, people living in informal settlements do not appear in the official statistics, even when they represent a high percentage of the population in major cities. In that regard, the Special Rapporteur calls for pushing the boundaries of what is currently perceived as measurable. A commitment to better and more accurate data collection as part of the global framework is essential to identifying and monitoring inequalities, a crucial step to making progress to end them.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Planning for the realization of the rights to water and sanitation 2011, para. 80e
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- [The full realization of human rights can require complex trade-offs that are even more difficult in situations of economic crisis. Having a plan or a vision guided by a human rights framework helps authorities to prioritize the realization of human rights above other considerations. Yet, a human rights framework provides no single answer on how to set priorities in a case where not all can be reached at the same time - for instance the distribution of resources between neglected remote rural areas and deprived urban slum areas. What human rights standards and principles call for is that such allocation decisions are not based solely on a cost-utility analysis, but are the result of a democratic, participatory and non-discriminatory process. In this regard:] States must devise specific strategies to address discrimination and reach the most disadvantaged. They must identify vulnerable and marginalized populations, patterns of discrimination, and their underlying structural causes by, inter alia, collecting disaggregated data. They must set specific targets to reduce inequalities in access, develop tailored interventions for specific circumstances and specifically monitor progress for these groups;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation 2010, para. 31
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- These challenges can be encountered at various stages of engagement with non-State service providers. Human rights have to be protected before and throughout the process, requiring a constant assessment, both by States and service providers, of whether the measures taken contribute to the realization of human rights. In the present section, both State obligations and the responsibilities of non-State actors will be addressed in relation to the challenges encountered. Starting with the decision to delegate service provision, the independent expert highlights questions regarding participatory and transparent processes, instruments for delegation and human rights impact assessments. She specifically addresses provision of services to previously unserved and underserved areas. In the operation of services, it is observed that regulation is essential, but often not sufficient to meet the standards of the human rights to water and sanitation and must be complemented by social policies. That section also raises issues regarding institutional capacity and the regulation of informal small-scale providers. Finally, the last section turns to questions of accountability and enforcement.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2010
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
The MDGs and the human rights to water and sanitation 2010, para. 50
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- Lack of access to water and sanitation is not simply a question of scarcity of technology, financial resources and infrastructure. It is a matter of setting priorities, a function of societal power relations and a problem of poverty and deeply entrenched inequalities. In order to increase sustainable access to water and sanitation, it is essential to address these underlying causes. Rights-based analyses in the water and sanitation sectors have revealed, for example, lack of secure land tenure as a key blockage, in particular in urban slums. Target 7.D aims to achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers. The target date (five years later than the rest of the targets) and the scale of progress aimed for (around a tenth of the estimated 1 billion slum-dwellers) highlight the low ambition embodied in this target. The indicators used as a proxy to measure progress towards the target do not capture security of tenure, which would be crucial to improve living conditions and is one of the main components of the right to housing. If these underlying issues were addressed and the target on slums were set higher, it would contribute significantly to making progress towards universal access to water and sanitation.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- All
- N.A.
- Année
- 2010
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
The MDGs and the human rights to water and sanitation 2010, para. 36
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- Perhaps the most frequently voiced concern about the Millennium Development Goals is that, taken on their face, they may facilitate aggregate human development progress at the expense of the most marginalized populations, thereby potentially exacerbating underlying inequalities. In fact, it would be possible for a country to be in full compliance with the Goals regarding access to water and sanitation without having extended access to any person belonging to the lowest wealth quintile. Whereas the Millennium Declaration refers explicitly in paragraph 23 to "equitable access", this concern for equity is not reflected in the Millennium Development Goals and, regrettably, principles of equality and non-discrimination are at present poorly reflected in most Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. Non discrimination and equality are not only instrumentally important in the context of development; they are binding human rights principles reflected in international human rights treaties. Development strategies based on the Millennium Development Goals that pick only the "low-hanging fruit" risk perpetuating and even reinforcing existing inequalities, frustrating sustainable development objectives and violating international human rights standards.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2010
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
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”;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 56
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- Large infrastructure projects are not necessarily contrary to the rights to water and sanitation, but the crucial question is whether such projects improve access for those who already enjoy some degree of access, or whether they take the challenging step of extending access to those who continue to be excluded from even basic access, especially in peri-urban areas and informal settlements (see A/HRC/18/33/Add.3).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 35
- Paragraph text
- 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.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 32
- Paragraph text
- Finally, through the Yokohama Action Plan, a regional strategy for the period 2013-2017 focusing on the African region, Japan committed to specific targets for its development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector, for example, to improve access to safe water and sanitary conditions for 10 million people per year.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 25
- Paragraph text
- Certain key elements of the normative content of the human rights to water and sanitation are found in the water and sanitation sectoral intervention framework, 2014-2018, a guiding reference for the activities of the French Development Agency. In that document, the human rights to water and sanitation are recognized; however, the framework of those human rights is incorporated selectively throughout a variety of the strategic areas instead of occupying a clearly prominent role. For instance, one priority strategy aims to provide sustainable access to water and sanitation services for all, with a scope of action extending from urban areas to rural areas for the sanitation subsector. The objectives of that strategy demonstrate attention to human rights aspects: permanent, continuous access to water and sanitation services; affordable services through mechanisms that consider the most vulnerable populations, such as social tariffs; and water quality corresponding to World Health Organization parameters. The strategy also contains provisions suggesting that acceptability of systems will be attributed importance. However, in citing only a “greater involvement” of users in that respect, the Agency does not effectively provide a guarantee that users will be able to participate and make their views considered systematically and with priority.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 90i
- Paragraph text
- [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.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89f
- Paragraph text
- [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Ensure through adequate regulation that, when extending formal services to informal settlements, these services are affordable and do not interfere with people’s access;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89d
- Paragraph text
- [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Ensure that regulatory frameworks provide a multifaceted and differentiated interpretation of affordability, capturing the specific needs of those living in vulnerable situations;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- All
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89c
- Paragraph text
- [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;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 52
- Paragraph text
- While affordability provisions in water and sanitation laws are quite common, the challenge is to translate general provisions into concrete affordability standards (see A/HRC/30/39, para. 26). The Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water 2016-2017 country survey indicates that 68 per cent of respondent countries have a regulatory authority that is responsible for setting urban tariffs for either drinking water or sanitation or both. To ensure the affordability of services, regulatory frameworks must capture the specific needs of the several groups that live in vulnerable situations and offer differentiated solutions for the two main expenses incurred by users: the one-off connection fees that contribute to capital construction costs, and the cost of the recurrent charges (tariffs for operation, maintenance, capital assets renewal, and any financing costs of capital for new fixed assets). To this end, regulatory actors must promote the use of appropriate measures, including free or low-cost service provision for households with very low or no income, income supplements, social tariffs and targeted subsidies. It is essential that financial sustainability does not become the priority of tariff-setting, to the detriment of affordability, but that both elements are reconciled. Similarly, it is essential that investment in the extension of distribution networks to low-income unserved areas is not delayed in an attempt to minimize the affordability challenge.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 12
- Paragraph text
- The obligation to promote requires States to provide information and guidance for service providers and the population on how to comply with the standards, norms and regulations set. This obligation also entails informing and training regulatory actors on the practical implications of the human rights to water and sanitation in their area of work.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe