High-level Meeting on Sanitation and Water For all
High-level Meeting on Sanitation and Water For all (23 April, Washington, DC), co-hosted by UNICEF and the World Bank, will focus on commitments to address the underpinning obstacles to increased access to sanitation and water. The Chair of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation will deliver opening remarks. Further information...
Hashimoto Action Plan II
The United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Sanitation is embarking on their next strategic phase with the release of the Hashimoto Action Plan II. In only a few years, world leaders will assess progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals, including the targets to halve by 2015 the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Getting the right policies, strategies and actions in place during the next three years is absolutely critical. The Hashimoto Action Plan II contributes to this effort by motivating, convening and galvanizing its partners to achieve objectives in five key areas: financing, sanitation, monitoring & reporting, integrated water resources management and water and disaster. Read more...
Video message by Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations
Tokyo Action Proposal following IYS
Participants at the Follow-up Conference of the International Year of Sanitation agreed that the international community needs a vehicle to carry spirits, monitor commitments and accelerate actions created by IYS. They proposed "Sustainable Sanitation ? the 5-Year Drive to 2015" as a way to keep the IYS momentum. Read more... (38KB)
UN Leadership Forum on Climate Change
Our UNSGAB Chair will lead a discussion on water security during the United Nations Leadership Forum on Climate Change on 22 September 2009 at United Nations Headquarters as part of the UN Summit on Climate Change. Read more...
Aug. 17 - 21, 2009
Stockholm World Water Week 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
UNSGAB members will deliver key note addresses during the Stockholm World Water Week (Aug. 17 - 21) on topics including subsidies and financial mechanisms, meeting commitments in Africa, transboundary implications of water management, ratifying the UN watercourses convention, water operators' partnerships, and the impact of global crisis on water management.
Report on "High-Level Expert Panel on Water and Disaster/ UNSGAB" is available! DOWNLOAD (, 21.1MB)
Mar. 16, 2009
UNSGAB's new brochure
UNSGAB's new brochure outlinning achievements and objectives for 2009-2010 was circulated during the forum and can be downloaded here.
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