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(b)
Ensure immediate access to the minimum essential level of water and
sanitation on a non-discriminatory basis during situations of emergency, including by:
(i)
Ensuring equal access to the minimum essential amount of water that is
sufficient and safe for personal and domestic uses and to prevent disease;
(ii)
Providing the elements that every person needs for health and survival,
and to live in dignity;
(iii) Adopting and implementing a water and sanitation strategy and plan of
action that addresses the entire population, including refugees, asylum seekers,
migrants and internally displaced persons;
(iv) Monitoring the extent of the realization of the human rights to water and
sanitation;
(v)
Taking measures to prevent, treat and control diseases linked to water
and sanitation;
(c)
Apply the human rights principles of progressive realization, using the
maximum available resources, and of sustainability;
(d)
Develop planning for progressive realization, including efforts aimed at
strengthening the operational resilience of water and sanitation services in an
inclusive and sustainable manner from the outset of the emergency phase, with an
assumption that the situation could continue;
(e)
Set up mechanisms for the participation of forcibly displaced persons
and other affected populations, from the preparatory processes through to the phases
during emergencies, and throughout different stages;
(f)
Address the needs of the most at risk when designing water and
sanitation interventions, through participatory processes.
70.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that States and humanitarian and
development actors:
(a)
Apply the human rights framework as a humanitarian-development
nexus, in particular the principles of sustainability, participation, equality and nondiscrimination and progressive realization;
(b)
Continue to strengthen efforts for an inclusive approach to address
access to water and sanitation by forcibly displaced persons, by:
(i)
Including asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and internally displaced
persons in national and local development plans, by and monitoring the
realization of their human rights to water and sanitation;
(ii)
More effectively supporting local water and sanitation service providers
in order to improve services and to ensure their operational continuity in an
inclusive manner, including by ensuring access by forcibly displaced persons
and other affected populations;
(c)
Apply an inclusive approach when preparing a safe environment, with
access to basic services for the voluntary repatriation, integration and settlement of
refugees and internally displaced persons, taking into account their aspirations and
with a view to progressively improving services;
(d)
Strengthen the human rights to water and sanitation as a means to build
the resilience of both people and services, and to reduce and mitigate the risks of
displacement by ensuring in particular participation and the right to information,
remedy and accountability;
(e)
Clearly identify roles, responsibilities and performance standards of
actors, and set up accountability mechanisms.
71.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that funders and humanitarian and
development actors:
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