It focused on the multidisciplinary issues of water and sanitation and human settlements.

These priorities include water scarcity and pollution sanitation, safe drinking water and health gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation integrated water resources management transboundary water issues and disaster reduction.

Participants recommended greater attention in the outcome document to the issues of water, sanitation and human settlements.

The Government, in partnership with some non governmental organizations, is addressing issues such as sanitation, security and provision of food.

Following the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Senegal established the Ministry of Prevention, Hygiene Promotion and Sanitation (Ministère de la Prévention, de l'Hygiene Publique et de l'Assainissement) as the ministerial level institutional home for addressing sanitation issues.

Those programmes address issues such as urban poverty reduction, crime prevention and access to basic services such as water, sanitation and waste collection.

(a) Taking policy decisions on practical measures and options to expedite implementation in the thematic cluster of issues on water, sanitation and human settlements

Other issues identified for further attention included water and sanitation in schools gender based violence children with disabilities and support for better teaching conditions.

Sanitation

Experience shows that water management, including protection of water quality, is more effective if water and sanitation issues are dealt with in an integrated manner.

(iA) Taking policy decisions on practical measures and options to expedite implementation in the thematic cluster of issues on water, sanitation and human settlements and

(b) Sanitation

C. Sanitation

Acknowledging the significance of the urban dimension of poverty eradication and the need to integrate water and sanitation issues within a broad based approach to human settlements,

Acknowledging the significance of the urban dimension of poverty eradication and the need to integrate water and sanitation issues within a broad based approach to human settlements,

Recognizing the significance of the urban dimension of poverty eradication and the need to integrate water and sanitation and other issues within a comprehensive framework for sustainable urbanization,

The Commission embraced the core message of the Governing Council that the issues of water and sanitation should be integrated into a broad based framework on human settlements.

One example is sanitation.

Water and sanitation services

9.1 Water and sanitation

Liveable housing and sanitation.

Two billion people without sanitation.

E. Utilities, water and sanitation

12.8.2 Sanitation and drinking water

12. Requests the Commission, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 47 191 of 22 December 1992 and as specified by the Commission at its eleventh session, to examine the cross cutting issues related to the thematic cluster of issues on water, sanitation and human settlements

Access to sanitation services for the poor could also be expanded through dedicated comprehensive programmes, such as total sanitation campaigns .

61 192. International Year of Sanitation, 2008

The importance of water, sanitation and hygiene

Infrastructure, sanitation and environment in rural areas

While UNICEF continues to be involved in institutional sanitation (primarily in schools and in health centres) and may support communal sanitation alternatives (mainly in emergencies), its focus will continue to be on safe and affordable sanitation in households.

By 2015, Senegal aims to implement rural sanitation programmes and to make adequate sanitation available to about 80 per cent of the population.

A holistic approach to sanitation could include measures for changing attitude and behaviour as a complement to investments in sanitation facilities and infrastructure.

In any event, her feeling was that human settlements could not be dissociated from the water and sanitation issues that were due to be considered at the next session of the Commission on Sustainable Development.

(a) One report on each of the issues of water, sanitation and human settlement, to be addressed in an integrated manner during the session, which should contain a detailed review of the progress of implementation relating to those issues, taking into account, as appropriate, their interlinkages, while addressing the cross cutting issues identified by the Commission at its eleventh session

The UN Habitat Water and Sanitation Trust Fund was launched in 2004, to promote Millennium Development Goal 7, target 10, on water and sanitation.

The latter also recognizes the importance of sanitation.

(i) Support to water supply and sanitation services

Monitoring target 10, relating to water and sanitation

E. Interlinkages among water, sanitation and human settlements

The Dakar Roadmap resulting from the First Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Forum offers another useful model for developing countries to meet the sanitation goals.

UNICEF is further supporting the water and environmental sanitation project to improve capacity of key Government staff to promote hygiene behaviours and education, and sanitation.

4. Welcomes the work of the twelfth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, and looks forward to the upcoming thirteenth session of the Commission on the thematic cluster of issues on water, sanitation and human settlements

Generally, these countries citizens enjoy services that provide for all water needs, from drinking to irrigation to sanitation. In addition, other water related issues, such as the risks posed by flooding, have been reduced to manageable levels.

At its twentieth session, in April 2005, the Governing Council of UN Habitat deliberated on the issues that would be considered by the Commission pertaining to water, sanitation and human settlements the three pillars of sustainable development.

UNICEF water, sanitation and hygiene strategies for 2006 2015