UN Water and Sanitation Best Practices Platform
The Water for Life Decade’s Office/UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) has just launched a platform on best practices on water and sanitation: http://www.unwaterbestpractices.org/
These practices have been selected through a screening process including the Water for Life Best Practices Award and the Zaragoza Annual Conferences. You can access these practices by theme or by region or clicking on the map.
After a Decade of learning, many methods and approaches have been implemented to achieve the water Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. Now, at the end of the Water for Life Decade, there is a rich collection of best practices that will be important to implement in the Post-2015 Agenda, creatively adding to Best Practices and adapting them to fit into different contexts.
This platform is meant to be used as a way to examine successfully applied practices, and to provide links to useful practices and instructive organizations.
You are able to search for specific practices by region and theme.
Pointedly, the themes of participation and gender and water are repeatedly emphasized in creating cultures and practices of better water and sanitation practices. Community participation includes active engagement of all members as well as cross-sectoral communication between the community and its politicians, civil society, and others. The community must participate at all levels to implement practices that are not only functional initially, but will remain in effect to improve the lives of the community. As Neil MacLeod, Head Water and Sanitation of eThekwini Municipality (2012 Best Practices Award Winner), said, "if you do [improvements] without the community, it will most certainly fail" (Water: our life, our future 1:27-32; 2:30-36). Moreover, the female members of the community significantly structure and support these practices and changes, and their participation frequently demonstrates noteworthy results.
The Water for Life Decade’s Office/UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) has just launched a platform on best practices on water and sanitation: http://www.unwaterbestpractices.org/
These practices have been selected through a screening process including the Water for Life Best Practices Award and the Zaragoza Annual Conferences. You can access these practices by theme or by region or clicking on the map.
After a Decade of learning, many methods and approaches have been implemented to achieve the water Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. Now, at the end of the Water for Life Decade, there is a rich collection of best practices that will be important to implement in the Post-2015 Agenda, creatively adding to Best Practices and adapting them to fit into different contexts.
This platform is meant to be used as a way to examine successfully applied practices, and to provide links to useful practices and instructive organizations.
You are able to search for specific practices by region and theme.
Pointedly, the themes of participation and gender and water are repeatedly emphasized in creating cultures and practices of better water and sanitation practices. Community participation includes active engagement of all members as well as cross-sectoral communication between the community and its politicians, civil society, and others. The community must participate at all levels to implement practices that are not only functional initially, but will remain in effect to improve the lives of the community. As Neil MacLeod, Head Water and Sanitation of eThekwini Municipality (2012 Best Practices Award Winner), said, "if you do [improvements] without the community, it will most certainly fail" (Water: our life, our future 1:27-32; 2:30-36). Moreover, the female members of the community significantly structure and support these practices and changes, and their participation frequently demonstrates noteworthy results.
