Various quotes in UN Secretary-General's report on sanitation for CSD 12
Updated - Monday 16 July 2007
Various IRC outputs on school sanitation, evaluating rural latrines in Guinea, small scale providers, and gender and monitoring feature in the UN Secretary-General's on sanitation report for CSD 12. This was discussed at the 12th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development in New York, 14 -30 April.
SSHE programme: promising initiative
Article in "Good practices in rural sanitation provision"
Joint research of IRC and WSP on the role of small scale providers in sanitation
Book on gender in monitoring section
SSHE programme: promising initiative
“In one promising initiative, in early 2000, the School Sanitation and Hygiene Education programme was launched in six countries: Burkina Faso, Colombia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Viet Nam and Zambia. By 2015, the programme aims to educate 80 per cent of primary schoolchildren about hygiene and to have all schools equipped with sanitation and handwashing facilities. Students are targeted both as direct beneficiaries and as agents of behavioural and attitudinal change within their families and their communities. The programme recognizes the importance of providing hygienic in-school sanitation facilities, taking into account the specific needs of female students.”
This is how the School Sanitation and Hygiene Education programme, a joint initiative of UNICEF and the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, is described in paragraph 72, page 23 and footnote 57 of the Secretary-General’s report on Sanitation to the Commission on Sustainable Development, 12th Session in New York, 14-30 April 2004.
SSHE also in introduction
SSHE also appears in the Introduction, paragraph 16, page 8:
"...These findings confirm the general conclusions of the School Sanitation and Hygiene Education Programme (launched in 2000), which finds that the sanitary conditions of schools in both rural and urban areas in developing countries are often appalling. creating health hazards".
Footnote 20: Burgers, L. Background and Rationale for School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (UNICEF), 3 November 2000 (www2.irc.nl.pdf/sshe/rationale.pdf).
Article in "Good practices in rural sanitation provision"
Box 2: Good practices in rural sanitation provision, on page 10 cites from an article by Madeleen Wegelin-Schuringa: Evaluating rural latrines in Guinea 1998 - 2001, Waterfront (UNICEF 2002), 15:17-20:
"In Guinea, the 1999 demographic and health survey found that 5 per cent of the population ad acceptable sanitation and 51 per cent had no access to latrines at all. The programme for rural sanitation in upper and middle Guinea has brought about dramatic improvements in terms of family latrines and public latrines. Large improvements at the household level became possible in 1997 with the introduction of sanitary platform latrines, which were provided to 1.5 million people (20 per event of the population). An evaluation carried out in 2000 led to training of community leaders and rural authorities on the necessity of hygienic latrines and sanitary practices., and training of village masons to build latrines. th rural authorities handle local management. A water sampling in 2000 fun 69 per cent of samples entirely free of coliform bacteria, compared with 48 per cent in 1998. Significant improvements in standards of living have been possible with simple sanitation improvements".
Joint research of IRC and WSP on the role of small scale providers in sanitation
Joint research of IRC and WSP on the role of small scale providers in sanitation is mentioned in paragraph 25 page 11, footnote 23:
"...Research in Africa confirms that the role of the small-scale entrepreneurs in sanitation provision is significant, and these findings are backed up by anecdotal evidence of a high degree of self-provision in East Asia".
Collignon, B. and Vezina M. (2000) Independent Water and Sanitation Providers in African Cities: Full Report of a Ten-Country Study Water and Sanitation Program, Nairobi.
Book on gender in monitoring section
Under Monitoring water quality and sanitation in paragraph 47 on page 17 the report contains one outcome from our 1998 book on gender roles and realities:
"...Research on hygiene that focuses on behaviour reported by the households often appears to be distorted by respondents' reporting desirable behaviours rather than actual behaviours "
Footnote 40: Van Wijk-Sijbesma, C. Gender in Water Resources Management, Water Supply and Sanitation: Roles and Realities Revisited, Technical Paper series no. 33-E, (IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre), 1998.
Source: Sanitation, Progress in meeting the goals, targets and commitments of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, Report of the Secretary General, E/CN.17/2004/5, United Nations, 10 February 2004.
