A/HRC/42/47/Add.4 D. Recommendation on the National Plan for Water and Sanitation RECOMMENDATION 4: “Draw up the national plan for water and sanitation via a participatory process that involves other service providers, such as the rural water boards and representatives of civil society. The plan should set the normative substance of human rights at the core of all its assessments, proposals and recommendations and make provision for actual measures to ensure that the whole of the country’s population has access to services, in conformity with the Sustainable Development Goals, to which El Salvador has subscribed” (A/HRC/33/49/Add.1, para. 96(c)). 19. PLANAPS was completed in September 2017 and presented on 25 January 2018. Its implementation is planned to span from 2019 to 2039. The Plan lists among its key aims, “to ensure the human right to water and sanitation”. The Plan also cites targets 6.2 and 6.3 of the SDG agenda as central goals for sanitation, however it does not mention SDG target 6.1. The Government indicated that PLANAPS assesses how much progress will be made by 2030 in the realization of SDGs and that targets under SDG 6 for drinking water in urban areas will be met, however, this will not be the case for sanitation and rural areas. For the realization of target 6.2, PLANAPS proposes two strategies for both urban and rural areas: Improving and expanding sanitation infrastructure and improving the functioning of sanitation systems. 20. With regard to participation, PLANAPS cites several civil society groups and rural water boards that took part in its consultation process. As highlighted above, the Plan also proposes the creation of CONAPS, which will be composed of representatives of technical, political and citizen stakeholder groups. CONAPS will represent the Government in all areas involving this subsector, both at the national and international levels, and will have the mandate to implement PLANAPS. The Government noted in its response that in March 2018 a Special Commission was created to work on the proposal for the political, technical and economic agenda for CONAPS. 21. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the progress made by the Government in aiming to ensure the human rights to water and sanitation, in adopting efforts to ensure SDG 6, and in involving water and sanitation stakeholders in the preparation and implementation of PLANAPS. While PLANAPS sets some objectives towards the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation, it does not develop the content of those rights and therefore does not foresee specific and targeted measures ensuring the realisation of these rights under a human rights framework. The Special Rapporteur also highlights that the lack of reference to SDG target 6.1 on achieving universal and equitable access to water for all undermines the implementation of the human right to water. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur points and that the CONAPS has not yet been created. GOOD PROGRESS: The Special Rapporteur commends the Government for completing PLANAPS and encourages it to pursue its efforts in adopting its objectives, calling on it to strengthen the human rights perspective within such actions in order to ensure that the normative substance of human rights is at the core of all its assessments, proposals and recommendations. He further encourages the Government to put special emphasis on SDG target 6.1, not reflected in PLANAPS, and to ensure a better alignment of the Plan with SDG target 6.2. E. Recommendation on climate change RECOMMENDATION 5: “Strengthen the national strategy to cope with climate change, which should include the establishment of an effective mechanism to provide a timely response to future droughts and to their impact on the most vulnerable population, including the rural population.” (A/HRC/33/49/Add.1, para. 96(a)). 22. With regard to water scarce regions, the Special Rapporteur underlined that persons deprived of their liberty, rural populations, persons living in situations of poverty or in street situations, persons with disabilities, older persons and persons living in areas 6