Evidence-based policy reform to support SDG 6 and SDG 13 - Connecting Climate Resilience with human rights sensitive monitored policy development. This is a consortium approach to work with villages in climate affected areas, and develop nature based policies for implementation and then scale up through reform in state policy.
Session on 'Sex for water A women's right violation'
Country Legal Mapping to establish gaps in Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (HRWS). These national reviews provide a dashboard of the current status of the implementation of HRWS in law, plus collect the existing legal articles by HRWS critera and principles for reference.
UN DESA, generates, analyzes and compiles a wide range of official economic, social and environmental data and information on which Member States draw to review common problems and to take stock of policy options. The Department produces a host of flagship publications and major intergovernmental reports, which are essential to UN negotiations and global policy decisions e.g. the Sustainable Development Goals Report and the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR).
CDP collects data from thousands of corporates and cities relating to, in particular, SDG 6.1, 6.3, 6.4 and 6.6. This data is sent to a range of market actors including UNESCO, the Ministry of Environment of Japan and Italy, and 525 investors globally.
CDP is currently working to spark a dialogue with financial regulators on the links between the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (for financial institutions to disclose climate-related risk) and the need to improve water security in our priority countries. To do this, we are actively sharing water-related data and insights; and making relevant policy recommendations. We aim to ensure that the world’s largest banks and insurance firms are disclosing the impact that their financing activities have on water resources.
WfWP SC members are members of the working group and act as experts for the UNESCO WWAP gender project.