INGENIEUR
The current Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon endorsed
the Board and asked members to continue their work.
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assessing existing international monitoring
for access to water and sanitation.
Post-2015 Development Agenda
For the post-2015 development framework, the
Board calls for a global post-2015 goal on water
that includes targets on at least three essential
objectives:
i. Achieve universal access to sustainable
sanitation and safe drinking water
ii. Increase wastewater management and
pollution prevention, and
iii. Improve integrated water resources
management and water-use efficiency
However, targets and indicators need to be
designed and monitored for each of these three
areas.
The UNSGAB is also advocating waterefficiency targets and water-related disasters to
be included in the post-2015 agenda.
After conducting extensive dialogues with
stakeholders on various continents, the UNSGAB
has gained insights into the major challenges to
realizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
targets on water and sanitation. It has generated
greater attention to pollution prevention,
wastewater management and water resources
management.
The Board commits to:
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Working closely with UN Member States,
particularly the Friends of Water Steering
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Committee and the Open Working Group
on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
to ensure water and sanitation objectives
appear in the goal setting processes and
to secure strong champions for water
and sanitation in the intergovernmental
dialogue;
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Making connections with allies working on
health, job creation, energy, food security
and financing to articulate linkages;
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Informing relevant players about the
Board’s three water goal objectives,
including participating in international fora
and events such as the Stockholm World
Water Week, Budapest Water Summit and
the 7th World Water Forum in Korea;
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Providing support to UN processes such
as the UN-System Task Team on the post2015 agenda; and
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Taking all possible occasions to raise
with partners the issue of comprehensive
monitoring as a crucial element of the Post2015 agenda.
The success of all these efforts depends on
national action and partner activities su