Practical guidance for implementing the rights to water and sanitation: a handbook

This session is lead by Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, and will take place on Tuesday 9 April 2013 from 18:00 – 19:00 hrs.

Catarina de Albuquerque is developing a handbook to provide practical guidance to governments – including national ministries, local authorities, regulators, etc. – and to other stakeholders, such as service providers, civil society, and donors, on how to make the human rights to water and sanitation a reality.

This side-event will be a consultation meeting with those interested in working with Catarina de Albuquerque to provide input and ideas for its development.

Catarina de Albuquerque will be discussing:

1. The opportunities afforded by the rights and the good practices and positive experience that governments / service providers / civil society have in implementing the rights;
2. The limitations, barriers, misunderstandings that governments / service providers / civil society are facing in implementing the rights to water and sanitation, and how these can be overcome;
3. Monitoring of the rights to water and sanitation.