A/62/214 105. While the present report gives particular attention to water and sanitation, it must be understood that the right to health encompasses numerous other underlying determinants. The analytical framework set out in the report can be applied to other underlying determinants of health. 106. Although fundamental to survival, development, economic growth and the right to health, water and sanitation are frequently neglected. Many States devote inadequate budgetary resources to water and sanitation and fail to develop adequate plans, policies, programmes and laws. Historically, international organizations have neglected water and sanitation, although WHO and OHCHR are both taking important strides towards redressing this imbalance. Also, donors have inadequately supported safe water and adequate sanitation initiatives, although there are some signs that this is beginning to change. Civil society organizations have made commendable progress in advancing debates on issues of water, sanitation and human rights. 58 107. In order to redress this neglect, the Special Rapporteur makes the following recommendations: (a) Formal recognition. All States should formally recognize that the right to the highest attainable standard of health includes access to safe water and adequate sanitation; (b) Laws, plans, policies, programmes and projects. By way of participatory processes, States should formulate and implement laws, plans, policies, programmes and projects that enhance access to safe water and adequate sanitation for all; (c) National budgets and international assistance. The vital importance of safe water and adequate sanitation to health — and the right to health — must be reflected in national budgets and international assistance and cooperation; (d) Disadvantaged groups and individuals. Consistent with international human rights law, measures (both national and international) to enhance access to safe water and adequate sanitation must give particular attention to disadvantaged groups and individuals, such as the poor, as well as those living in rural communities and urban informal settlements, irrespective of their tenure status; (e) Gender. In the context of water, sanitation and the right to health, it is extremely important that States, international organizations and others adopt a gender-sensitive approach to all relevant policymaking; (f) An integrated approach. The right to the highest attainable standard of health requires an integrated approach whereby adequate sanitation and hygiene are included in water supply programmes; (g) Public information campaigns. Large-scale public awareness health campaigns are needed to provide information relating to water and sanitation, for example on hygiene, safe water storage and monitoring water quality. This __________________ 58 07-45379 See, for example, the Right to Water Programme, Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions (www.cohre.org); Water Law Research Programme (www.ielrc.org); and Water Aid (www.wateraid.org). 23