This is an archival version of the original KnowledgePoint website.

Interactive features have been disabled and some pages and links have been removed.

Visit the new KnowledgePoint website at https://www.knowledgepoint.org.

 

Revision history [back]

click to hide/show revision 1
initial version
CDietvorst gravatar image
Safe Water Strategy

Development Goals and MDGs

Web sites:

References:

United Nations, 1970. Second United Nations Development Decade 1971-1980. Resolution A/RES/2626. Available at: <https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/2626%20(XXV))> Quote: “Each developing country will endeavour to provide an adequate supply of potable water to a specified proportion of its population, both urban and rural, with a view to reaching a minimum target by the end of the Decade”. This is one of the earliest references to a UN development for water.

Biswas, A.K., 2010. Water for a thirsty urban world. In: Brown journal of world affairs, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 147-162 : 1 fig., 2 tab. Available at: <https://www.thirdworldcentre.org/thirstyurban.pdf>

Bostoen, K. and Luyendijk, R., 2013. Global monitoring’s forgotten history. Presentation at IRC Symposium Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery, 9-11 April 2013, Addis Adaba. Available at: <Google doc link>

Jolly, R, 2003. Global goals : the UN experience : background paper Human Development Report 2003. (UNDP Human Development Report Office. Occasional paper). New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Available at: <https://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2003/papers/hdr2003_jolly.pdf>

Mount, D.C. and Bielak, A.T., 2011. Deep words, shallow words : an initial analysis of water discourse in four decades of UN Declarations : a UNU-INWEH contribution to Rio+20. [online] Hamilton, ON, Canada: United Nations University, International Network on Water, Environment and Health, UNU-INWEH. Available at: <https://inweh.unu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DeepWords_ShallowWords-_MountBielak_FINAL_pdf_Oct_26_2011.pdf>

WHO and UN-Water, 2012. UN-Water global annual assessment of sanitation and drinking-water (GLAAS) 2012 report : the challenge of extending and sustaining services. (UN-water global annual assessment of sanitation and drinking-water (GLAAS) report; 2012). [online] Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization (WHO). Available at: <https://washurl.net/6jo133>

WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, 2013. Progress on sanitation and drinking-water : 2013 update. [online] Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization (WHO), New York, NY, USA: UNICEF. Available at: <https://washurl.net/7fv5ll>

Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals

Web sites:

References

UN System Technical Support Team, 2013. TST issues brief - water and sanitation. New York, NY, USA: United Nations. Available at: <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/1801tstissueswater.pdf>

Beyond 2015, 2013. Global thematic consultation on water and the post-2015 development framework : water in the post-2015 development agenda. Brussels, Belgium : Beyond 2015, Concord . Available at: <https://www.beyond2015.org/sites/default/files/Position%20paper%20Water.pdf >

Luyendijk, R. and Allély-Fermé, D., 2013. Next generation of global approaches to WASH monitoring. Presentation at IRC Symposium Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery, 9-11 April 2013, Addis Adaba. Available at: < https://www.irc.nl/page/78538>

United Nations, 2013. A new global partnership: Eradicate poverty and transform economies through sustainable development : the report of the High Level Panel on Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. New York, N.Y: United Nations Publications. Available at: <https://www.post2015hlp.org/the-report/>

UN-Water, UNICEF and UN DESA, 2013. The Post 2015 Water Thematic Consultation report. S.l. : World We Want, United Nations. Available at: <https://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/366798>

WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, 2013. Report of the second consultation on post-2015 monitoring of drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene, organized by WHO and UNICEF, hosted by the Royal Government of the Netherlands in The Hague, 3-5 December 2012. [online] Geneva, Switzerland: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, JMP. Available at: <https://washurl.net/mcrte5>