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| Author: |
UNDP Water Programme, 2006-11-09
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| Title: |
Fast Facts: Action on Water |
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UNDP BDP Environment and Energy Group, 3 pages
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| Type: |
Outreach
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| Country / Region: |
Global
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| Categories: |
Millennium Development Goals,
Water & Sanitation
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| Themes/Issues: |
Access,
Development,
Disadvantaged
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| Date Posted: |
2006-11-09 |
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World leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the over-arching goal of cutting extreme poverty in half. UNDP, using its worldwide network, is coordinating global and national efforts to reach these Goals. As the 2006 Human Development Report (HDR 2006), Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis, emphasizes, achieving the eight MDGs very much depends on strengthening water governance at local, national, regional and global levels. The main imperatives of the Report are:
- Make water a human right—and mean it
- Draw up national strategies for water and sanitation
- Support national plans with international aid
- Develop a global action plan
UNDP is helping catalyze efforts toward achievement of the MDGs through its Water Governance Programme (www.undp.org/water/), and stands ready to work with UN-Water and other partners in advancing the Report’s recommendations.
MATTERS OF FACT:
• UNDP’s Water Governance Programme is active in over 150 countries, in four thematic areas of support: Water Supply, Sanitation, Transboundary Waters Manage-ment, and Water Resources Management. In the graph on page 2 water supply and sanitation are represented as one section.
• The Water Governance portfolio totals $1.5 billion including cash and in-kind co-financing.
• The International Waters focal area of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) represents the principal source of funding for the Transboundary Waters Management area.
• UNDP participates in UN-Water, Global Water Partnership, Water and Sanitation Programme, World Water Assessment Programme, World Water Forum.
• Partners include governments, bilateral and multilateral donors, UN agencies, NGOs and private foundations
• UNDP has set up 11 national and 9 regional water management capacity-building networks, including 300 member institutions
• UNDP draws on expertise from its Environment & Energy network of 1,413 members.
UNDP’s strategy in strengthening water governance—and thereby boosting progress toward the MDGs—includes:
- Incorporating water management, water supply and sanitation into national development and poverty-reduction strategies
- Catalyzing financing for improved water governance
- Supporting and participating in global, regional, national and local dialogue on water governance.
- Helping countries consider water resources in their plans for adapting to climate change
- Building capacity to manage water resources effectively
- Promoting women’s empowerment and human rights as essential components of effective water governance
“I fully support the call for a Global Action Plan to tackle the growing water and sanitation crisis. As the 2006 Human Development Report highlights, each one of the eight Millennium Development Goals is inextric-ably tied to the next, so if we fail on the water and sanitation goal, hope of reaching the other seven rapidly fades. Either we take concerted action now to bring clean water and sanitation to the world’s poor, or we consign millions of people to lives of avoidable poverty, poor health and diminished opportunities, and perpetuate deep inequalities within and between countries. We have a collective responsibility to succeed.
— Kemal Derviş, UNDP Administrator
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