A/70/203 location’s water, sanitation and hygiene services must be assessed in the light of the human rights standards and principles, as well as the principles of core obligations, progressive realization and use of maximum available resources. 99. The Special Rapporteur recommends that States: (a) Use the human rights framework for water, sanitation and hygiene to identify appropriate types of services and to ensure that services are available, safe, acceptable, accessible and affordable to all; (b) Take into account the different concerns as to meeting human rights standards related to each type of service in planning and implementation processes. It is important for States to consider that some combinations of types of services and management models may be not compliant and might even provide outcomes far from human rights standards; (c) Take into account the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental context in assessing the compliance of types of services with human rights; (d) Ensure active, free and meaningful participation in the decisionmaking on adopting types of services and management models; (e) Set priorities in a way to meet the most essential needs to ensure survival, health and dignity, considering the short-, medium- and long-term planning; (f) Focus on the unserved and underserved as a matter of priority. Where parts of the population do not even have access to an essential level of service, States must prioritize the realization of their human rights. When everyone has access to at least an essential level of service, States have the obligation to progressively realize the human rights to water and sanitation in order to achieve an adequate standard of living for all; (g) Prioritize groups and individuals who have been disadvantaged in the past in order to achieve substantive equality and to redress past disadvantage; (h) Balance short-, medium- and long-term needs and address these through comprehensive planning. This implies not deferring immediate needs with promises of a long-term strategy that will eventually reach the entire population. Immediate needs must be addressed as a matter of priority, while minimizing the cost of any potential double investment in infrastructure; (i) Develop monitoring systems to measure the progress States make, acknowledging that States have different starting points and baselines for achieving universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as to monitor the progressive reduction of inequalities; (j) Use and adapt, as necessary, existing platforms or partnerships so as to ensure the accountability, future review and follow-up of the water-, sanitation- and hygiene-related sustainable development goal targets. Such a platform should establish a country-led review process that includes international and civil society organizations, and assesses progress and bottlenecks. 24/24 15-12500