A/HRC/39/55 Annex Follow-up analysis of official country visits I. Introduction 1. Pursuant to resolutions 27/7 and 33/10 of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation undertakes official country visits to promote the full realization of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, following the criteria of availability, quality, physical accessibility, affordability and acceptability. More concretely, the Special Rapporteur examines the situation of water and sanitation at the national level, identifies good practices, and makes recommendations to the Government on steps to improve access and ensure the protection of human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. 2. The Human Rights Council encourages all Governments to continue to respond favourably to requests by the Special Rapporteur for visits and information, to follow up effectively on the recommendations of the mandate holder and to make available information on measures taken in this regard (para. 15 of Resolution 33/10). Furthermore, the Manual of Operations of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council stipulates that Special Procedures mandate-holders can seek to enhance the effectiveness of their country visits in various ways, including by formulating their recommendations in ways that facilitate implementation and monitoring and undertaking follow-up initiatives through communications and further visits (paras. 97 to 105). 3. In this connection, the Special Rapporteur is seeking to enhance the effectiveness of his official country visits by undertaking a follow-up analysis of those visits focusing on the implementation of recommendations elaborated in the country visit reports. II. Information on official country visits 4. Since his appointment in November 2014, the current Special Rapporteur undertook official country visits to seven countries: • Tajikistan (4 to 12 August 2015, A/HRC/33/49/Add.2) • Botswana (9 to 17 November 2015, A/HRC/33/49/Add.3) • El Salvador (11 to 18 May 2016, A/HRC/33/49/Add.1) • Portugal (5 to 13 December 2016, A/HRC/36/45/Add.1) • Mexico (2 to12 May 2017, A/HRC/36/45/Add.2) • India (27 October to 10 November 2017, A/HRC/39/55/Add.1, report forthcoming) • Mongolia (9 to 20 April 2018, A/HRC/39/55/Add.2, report forthcoming) • Malaysia (dates confirmed for 21 November to 4 December 2018) • Lesotho (dates confirmed for 4 to 15 February 2019) 5. Since the mandate was established in 2008, the former and current Special Rapporteur conducted a total of 22 country visits corresponding to the following geographical distributions: 21