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Tenth meeting of the Working Group on Water and Health

Working Group on Water and Health (Protocol on Water and Health)

15 - 16 November 2017

Salle VIII, Palais des Nations Geneva Switzerland

The tenth meeting of the Working Group on Water and Health was held from Wednesday 15 November to Thursday 16 November 2017. The meeting was held back-to-back with the fifteenth meeting of the Protocol’s Compliance Committee (13-14 November 2017) and the nineteenth meeting of the Bureau (Geneva, 17 November 2017).

The Working Group took stock of the progress in the implementation of the water, sanitation and health-related Sustainable Development Goals in the pan-European region and discussed how to benefit from the Protocol’s practical framework to facilitate their achievement. It also review the implementation of the programme of work for 2017-2019 and provided guidance on its further development.

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Documents

Documents	ENG	FRE	RUS
Agenda ECE/MP.WH/WG.1/2017/1−EUPCR/1611921/2.1/2017/WGWH/03	PDF	PDF	PDF
Report (ECE/MP.WH/WG.1/2017/2−EUPCR/1611921/2.1/2017/WGWH/06)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 5 (a). Setting targets and implementing measures
Informal documents
Report of the ninth meeting of the Task Force on Target Setting and Reporting	PDF	-	-
Draft outline of the guidance document on how to translate the 2030 Agenda into national targets set under the Protocol	PDF	-	PDF
Item 5 (b). Strengthening reporting capacity
Decision IV/1 on reporting in accordance with article 7 of the Protocol (ECE/MP.WH/13/Add.2−EUPCR/1611921/2.1/2016/MOP-4/06/Add.1, forthcoming)	PDF	PDF	PDF
World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund, Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Update and SDG Baselines (Geneva, 2017)	PDF	-	-
World Health Organization and UN-Water, Financing Universal Water, Sanitation and Hygiene under the Sustainable Development Goals: UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water, GLAAS 2017 Report (Geneva, 2017)	PDF	-	-
GLAAS country profiles	see webpage
WHO/UNICEF, “WASH in the 2030 Agenda: New Global Indicators for Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene” (brochure, 2017)	PDF	-	-
Item 6. Compliance procedure
Report of the Compliance Committee to the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Water and Health (ECE/MP.WH/2016/5–EUPCR/1611921/2.1/2016/MOP-4/11)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Decision IV/2 on general issues of compliance (ECE/MP.WH/13/Add.1− EUPCR/1611921/2.1/2016/MOP-4/06/Add.1, forthcoming)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Report of the Compliance Committee on its fourteenth meeting (ECE/MP.WH/C.1/2017/2−EUPCR/1611921/2.1/2017/CC/06)	PDF	-	PDF
Item 7 (a). Water-related disease surveillance
Informal document
Brief summary of the national training workshop on water-related disease surveillance and outbreak response in Kyrgyzstan	PDF	-	-
Item 7 (b). Drinking water quality surveillance
Informal document
Draft guidance document on risk-based approaches towards strengthening drinking water quality surveillance	PDF	-	-
Item 8 (b). Water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities
Informal document
Draft report on situation of WASH in health-care facilities in the WHO European Region	PDF	-	-
Item 9. Small-scale water supplies and sanitation
Informal document
Report of the subregional workshop on improving small-scale water supply and sanitation for better health (Minsk, 15-17 March 2017)	PDF	-	-
Item 10. Safe and efficient management of water supply and sanitation systems
Informal document
Draft concept note: Sanitation scoping study for the pan-European region	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 11. Equitable access to water and sanitation
Guidance Note on the Development of Action Plans to Ensure Equitable Access to Water and Sanitation (ECE/MP.WH/15)	see publication
Informal document
Draft outline of the publication: Capitalizing findings and lessons learned from the work on equitable access to water and sanitation under the Protocol	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 12. Increasing resilience to climate change
Informal document
Information notice and provisional programme of the global workhshop on climate change adaptation	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 14. Outcomes of the Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
WHO Regional Office for Europe, Declaration of the Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health (EURO/Ostrava2017/6)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Annex 1: Compendium of possible actions to advance the implementation of the Ostrava Declaration (EURO/Ostrava2017/7)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Annex 2: Institutional arrangements for the European Environment and Health Process (EURO/Ostrava2017/8)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 15. Implementation of the programme of work for 2017-2019
Programme of work for 2017-2019 (ECE/MP.WH/13/Add.2− EUPCR/1611921/2.1/2016/MOP-4/06/Add.2)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 16. Financial resources to support the implementation of the Protocol
Programme of work for 2017-2019 (ECE/MP.WH/13/Add.2− EUPCR/1611921/2.1/2016/MOP-4/06/Add.2)	PDF	PDF	PDF
Informal document
Overview of contributions and expenditures related to the Protocol and resources required up to the fifth session of the Meeting of the Parties compared with funds raised	PDF	-	-

Presentations

Nos.	Title	ENG
1	The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Supporting National Implementation and Review Monika Linn, Principal Adviser & Chief, Sustainable Development and Gender Unit, UNECE	PDF
2	Role of the Protocol in achieving the 2030 Agenda in Romania Carmen Neagu, Ministry of Waters and Forest, Romania	PDF
3	Protocol and Protocol relevance to the SDGs Natalja Šliachtic, Lithuania	PDF
4	Preparation for the National Voluntary Review in Hungary Peter Kovacs, Hungary	PDF
5	Swiss Voluntary National Review (VNR) 2018 Pierre Studer, Switzerland	PDF
6	Support for setting targets and implementing measures, Pierre Studer, Switzerland, Chair of the Task Force on Target Setting and Reporting	PDF
7	Portuguese Target Setting Experience Helena Costa, Portugal	PDF
8	The Integrated Monitoring Initiative and 2017 integrated baseline process Will Reidhead, UN-Water	PDF
9	Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Highlights for WHO European Region Francesca Mitis, WHO	PDF
10	Outcomes of the fourth reporting of UN-Water GLAAS Enkhtsetseg Shinee, WHO	PDF
11	Programme area 2.1 Strengthening capacity in surveillance of water-related diseases and outbreak management Karin Nygård, Norwegian Institute of Public Health	PDF
12	Activities to reach national targets under PWH program area 2.1 in Norway: Strengthen water-related disease surveillance and outbreak response Karin Nygård, Norwegian Institute of Public Health	PDF
13	Programme area: Drinking water quality surveillance Alena Drazdova, Belarus	PDF
14	WASH in institutional settings: Strenghtening WASH in schools Ion Salaru, Republic of Moldova	PDF
15	WASH in institutional settings: WASH in schools at the Paris High Level Conference Oliver Schmoll, WHO	PDF
16	WASH in institutional settings: Strenghtening WASH in healthcare facilities Peter Kovacs, Hungary	PDF
17	Catalyzing WASH improvements in health care facilities in the European Region Arabella Hayter, WHO	PDF
18	Small-scale water supplies and sanitation: Achievements Dragana Jovanovic, Serbia	PDF
19	Planned activities small-scale water supplies and sanitation 2017-2019 Bettina Rickert, Germany	PDF
20	Safe and efficient management of water supply and sanitation systems/WA 5 Jelka Appelman, Netherlands	PDF
21	Programme area 6: Equitable access to water and sanitation: translating the human right to water and sanitation into practice Yannick Pavageau, France	PDF
22	International Workshop on Water Scarcity: Taking action in transboundary basins and reducing health impacts Alexander Belokurov, UNECE	PDF
23	Programme Area 7: Increasing resilience to climate change Luca Lucentini, Italy	PDF
24	G7 Milan Health Ministers’ Communiqué Luca Lucentini, Italy	PDF
25	Assistance to support implementation at the national level. National Policy Dialogues on IWRM Peep Mardiste, UNECE	PDF
26	Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health” Oliver Schmoll, WHO	PDF

List of participants

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