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(g)
To set indicators, including disaggregated data, based on human rights
criteria,3 to monitor progress and to identify shortcomings to be rectified and challenges to
be met;
(h)
To ensure financing to the maximum of available resources in order to
implement all the necessary measures to ensure that water and sanitation systems are
sustainable and that services are affordable for everyone, while ensuring that allocated
resources are not limited to infrastructure but also include resources for regulatory
activities, operation and maintenance, the institutional and managerial structure and
structural measures, including increasing capacity;
(i)
To provide for a regulatory framework aimed at ensuring that all water and
sanitation service providers respect and protect human rights and do not cause human rights
violations or abuses, and to ensure that national minimum standards, based on human rights
criteria, are in place when water and sanitation services are decentralized, in order to ensure
coherence and countrywide compliance with human rights;
(j)
To provide for a framework of accountability that provides for adequate
monitoring mechanisms and legal remedies, including measures to overcome obstacles in
access to justice and other accountability mechanisms, and lack of awareness of the law,
human rights and opportunities to claim these rights;
8.
Invites States to continue to promote, at all levels, including at the highest
level, the full realization of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation in
forthcoming national, regional and international initiatives, inter alia, the Global Forum on
Sanitation and Hygiene of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council in
October 2011, in Mumbai, India, and the sixth World Water Forum in March 2012, in
Marseille, France;
9.
Stresses the important role of the international cooperation and technical
assistance provided by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system,
international and development partners, as well as by donor agencies, in particular in the
timely achievement of the relevant Millennium Development Goals, and urges development
partners to adopt a human rights-based approach when designing and implementing
development programmes in support of national initiatives and plans of action related to the
right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
10.
Encourages all Governments to continue to respond favourably to requests
by the Special Rapporteur for visits and information, to follow up effectively on
recommendations of the mandate holder and to make available information on measures
taken in this regard;
11.
Requests the Special Rapporteur to continue to report, on an annual basis, to
the Human Rights Council and to submit an annual report to the General Assembly;
12.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to facilitate, including through
engagement with relevant stakeholders, the provision of technical assistance in the area of
the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
13.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the resources and assistance
necessary for the effective fulfilment of her mandate;
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See A/65/254, paras. 22-48 and 53-60.