Draft Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation

Your comments and recommendations of good practices are requested by 27
August 2007 on the draft Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation,
which is accessible at www.cohre.org/manualrtws.

The Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation has the following
objectives:

1.   Explain the key aspects of the right to water and sanitation and
clarify their implications for governments.

2.   Describe a range of practical policy measures that could be adopted
by governments, in particular those in low-income countries, to achieve
the right to water and sanitation in the shortest possible time.

3.   Illustrate examples of policy measures that have been taken to
achieve particular components of the right to water and sanitation.

4.   Provide a check-list by which governments can assess their
achievements in relation to the right to water and sanitation.

The draft Manual is the product of collaboration between the Centre on
Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) Right to Water Programme, United
Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) Water, Sanitation and
Infrastructure Branch (WSIB), American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Programme, and the Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). It has received financial
support towards production costs from the partners listed above as well
as the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the
World Health Organization (WHO). The draft - prepared by COHRE's Right
to Water Programme - remains a work in progress. The contents of the
publication will be revised based on comments.