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IRC - Monitoring Millennium Development Goals - A review of experiences and challenges
Abstract
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent a renewed commitment of
the international community to overcome persistent poverty. It has been widely
recognized that the improvement of water supply and sanitation is a core element
for poverty reduction as well as for conflict prevention. Halving ‘by 2015, the
proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic
sanitation’ has therefore been defined as one of the numerical and time-bound
targets for the MDGs.
In the water supply and sanitation sector, monitoring progress towards achieving the
MDGs is essential for maintaining and putting into practice the political commitment
both of the international community as well as the national governments.
Monitoring information is also used for advocacy, to promote the importance of
water supply and sanitation issues in national policies and poverty reductions
strategies. The need for monitoring the progress toward achieving the MDGs on
water and sanitation has been widely acknowledged and numerous initiatives are
being carried out. The challenge for the international community is to elaborate a
simple, practical and accepted system that provides key actors with core information
to take informed decisions on scaling and focussing of political and policy reform
efforts as well as channeling of financial resources.
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