Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners
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Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners
About This Book
The Manual highlights the human rights principles and criteria in relation to drinking water and sanitation. It explains the international legal obligations in terms of operational policies and practice that will support the progressive realisation of universal access.
The Manual introduces a human rights perspective that will add value to informed decision making in the daily routine of operators, managers and regulators. It also encourages its readership to engage actively in national dialogues where the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are translated into national and local policies, laws and regulations. Creating such an enabling environment is, in fact, only the first step in the process towards progressive realisation. Allocation of roles and responsibilities is the next step, in an updated institutional and operational set up that helps apply a human rights lens to the process of reviewing and revising the essential functions of operators, service providers and regulators.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- About the author and contributing authors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Main operational principles
- Chapter 3 Translating the human rights to water and sanitation into operational terms
- Chapter 4 An enabling environment for the human rights to water and sanitation
- Chapter 5 Incorporating the human rights to water and sanitation into the operational and institutional framework of service providers and regulators
- Chapter 6 The human rights to water and sanitation in the essential functions of service providers and regulators
- Chapter 7 Addressing sensitive practices, dealing with challenges and avoiding pitfalls
- Annex A Context and contents of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Annex B The sustainable development goals
- References