Sustainable Sanitation - the five year drive to 2015
WECF has been campaining for many years on the right to sustainable water and sanitation at home and in schools
01.08.2008 | WECF Campaign
| Countries: | worldwide |
| Donors: | WECF |
| Issues: | Sustainable sanitation, water, energy, agriculture |
| Duration: | 01/2008 - 12/2014 |
On Tuesday June 21st 2011 the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, along with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, Ugandan Minister of Water & Environment the Hon. Maria Mutagamba, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, launched this initiative at UN Headquarters here in New York. This initiative is being supported by UNICEF and other member of UN-Water who have worked together to develop materials for the drive. The overall strategy will be called: Sustainable Sanitation: the Drive to 2015
WECF has been campaigning for sustainable sanitation as a member of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), an informal network of organisations (currently 125 from 45 countries) who share a common vision on sustainable sanitation. The main objective of a sanitation system is to protect and promote human health by providing a clean environment and breaking the cycle of disease. In order to be sustainable a sanitation system has to be not only economically viable, socially acceptable, and technically and institutionally appropriate, it should also protect the environment and the natural resources.
SuSanA came into existence in early 2007 and works as a coordination platform, working platform, sounding board, contributor to the policy dialogue on sustainable sanitation and as a “catalyst”. WECF is an active member of SuSanA since the beginning. Margriet Samwel, water coordinator at WECF, is actively contributing to the working group WG 3 “renewables, climate change and groundwater” and WG 10 “operation and maintenance” and Claudia Wendland, coordinator sanitation projects is leading the WG 07 “community, rural and schools (with gender and social aspects)”.
Participation is open to those who want to join and be active in the promotion of sustainable sanitation systems. The SuSanA invites international, regional and local organisations to join the network, contribute ideas, and to become active partners in the thematic working groups, please see www.susana.org
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