Contributing Actions to the United Nations System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation
Contributing Actions to the United Nations System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation
UN-Water Members and Partners’ activities are categorised as Contributing Actions towards the United Nations System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation. These actions are integrated into the Collaborative Implementation Plan (CIP) Results Framework 2025-2028. In this section, you can discover who does what.
WHO and UN-HABITAT are co-custodian for SDG target 6.3 ‘By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals...
The International Network of Drinking-water and Sanitation Regulators (RegNet) is a global forum to share and promote good practice in the regulation of drinking-water and...
Climate-related hazards, shocks and stresses present a growing threat to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. In response, WHO and UNICEF have launched a...
Globally, nearly two billion people use either unimproved drinking-water sources or improved sources that are faecally-contaminated causing close to half a million diarrhoeal deaths in...
Safe and climate resilient sanitation systems are fundamental to protect public health. WHO supports capacity building and implementation through guidelines and tools on sanitation and...
Water and its recreational use have long been recognized as major influences of health and well-being. Clean, well-managed recreational water sites – be they oceans...
Use of wastewater and sludge for agriculture and aquaculture present opportunity to recover valuable water and nutrients from waste and is increasing attractive in the...
WHO provides training and capacity development on safely managed sanitation (SMS) via a range of partnerships, training initiatives and technical tools including: WHO/UNICEF steps to...
Improvements in water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and wastewater management in all sectors are critical elements of preventing infections and reducing the spread of antimicrobial...
Wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) is disease surveillance using samples from sewage, or other environmental waters impacted by human wastewater. WES has potential to provide...