WHO water, sanitation, and hygiene strategy 2018-2025 WHO (2018)
The WHO WASH Strategy has been developed in response to Member State Resolution WHA64.4 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also takes on board the need for progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking-water and sanitation, adopted by the UN General Assembly in July 2010. The 2025 end date of the Strategy is proposed to allow both a reasonably manageable forward-looking time period as well as time to adopt a new WHO strategy in 2025 to enable course corrections in the final five-year period of the SDGs. The Strategy is based on an organization-wide discussion on WASH priorities and challenges, including experiences and reflections from both regional and country office levels, and also incorporates the inputs of WHO’s partners. It considers WHO’s comparative advantages in the WASH sector and optimal ways of working considering past experiences and achievements. It aims to reinforce the five leadership priorities of the WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, in particular addressing the health impacts of climate and environmental change; the primary health care foundation to achieve health for all; and the WASH interventions that contribute to health security. It complements and informs an emerging strategy for the WHO Department for Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health (PHE).
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WHO (2018). WHO water, sanitation, and hygiene strategy 2018-2025 World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
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