A/HRC/45/10 based on the data provided by national statistical offices. Moreover, the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water initiative examines whether there is an enabling environment for the provision of water supply, sanitation and hygiene services, including through national policies and plans. 72. At the national level, national human rights institutions and ombudspersons are oversight mechanisms that protect and promote human rights. In many States, however, their mandates do not cover monitoring State compliance with the human rights to water and sanitation, a task most often left to regulatory bodies, which often fail to take a human rights-based approach as a whole to regulation.64 At times, civil society organizations and communities also play monitoring roles at the national level. VII. Final remarks 73. As the Special Rapporteur finishes his six-year term, he wishes to address a frequent comment expressed by many practitioners: that human rights are not clear and that they simply represent pie-in-the-sky ideals that are pleasant to contemplate but unrealistic and impractical. As illustrated in the present report, human rights are contextual and do not provide the clear-cut solutions that many are searching for; nonetheless, they do provide a framework for compliance with their standards. What is correct for one country may not be the best solution for another and, therefore, the role of a United Nations human rights expert is not to prescribe a standard solution but, rather, to provide guidelines for States, practitioners and civil society to implement the progressive realization of human rights to water and sanitation taking into account the specific national and local contexts. 74. A decade has passed since water and sanitation have been explicitly recognized as human rights,65 yet the specifics of how to implement the obligation to progressively realize those rights still require further clarification and understanding. Through this report, and by addressing the broad scope of the obligation of progressive realization, the Special Rapporteur provides several guidelines and principles that States should consider when implementing the obligation to progressively realize the human rights to water and sanitation. 75. The full realization of the human rights to water and sanitation cannot be left to States alone. The larger human rights ecosystem is composed of other actors, particularly those that monitor State compliance, which ranges from treaty to statistical bodies, from national to international bodies and from governmental to non-governmental bodies. Private actors working in the water and sanitation sector must understand that they too are bound by human rights obligations, particularly when they provide services by delegation from States and when national legislation reflects a State’s international human rights obligations. The Special Rapporteur recommends that monitoring bodies introduce and utilize the guiding questions contained in the present report in identifying and assessing the progressive realization of the human rights to water and sanitation. 64 65 A/HRC/36/45. General Assembly resolution 64/292. See also the information on the campaign to celebrate the 10 years of the human rights to water and sanitation available from www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/WaterAndSanitation/SRWater/Pages/10Anniversary.aspx. 19