Publications Archive

Advocacy guides

A Human Rights Approach to Development: Some Practical Implications for WaterAid’s Work : The first WaterAid lecture, City University, London
Julia Häusermann, President, Rights and Humanity, 10 September, 1999

Right to Water WHO, WaterAid, COHRE, 2003

Advocacy – What’s it all about? A Guide to Advocacy Work in the Water and Sanitation Sector : WaterAid September 2007

Resource Pack for Training, Advocacy for the Right to Water: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, April 2007.

Guidance Manual. Our Water, Our Waste, Our Town: Supporting civil society to engage in urban water and sanitation reforms: WaterAid, 2007

Advocating for Change: WaterAid, 2009

Budget advocacy for the water and sanitation sector in Nepal: A primer for civil society organisations: WaterAid, 2010

Country case studies

Enforcing the human right to water – Lessons learnt from working with the Conet community in La Matanza, Argentina (PDF 120Kb), Spanish, COHRE and Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)

The Right to Water in Argentina (PDF 312Kb) Rights and Humanity, Juan Miguel Picolotti of the Centre for Human Rights and the Environment, with the assistance of Lorena Gilli, Marta Juliá, and Andrea Mendyvil, 2003

From Communities’ Hands to MNCs’ BOOTs: A Case Study from India on Right to Water (PDF 236Kb) Rights and Humanity, Ruchi Pant, Policy Analyst, Ecoserve, India, 2003

Hostage to Politics, The impact of sanctions and the blockade on the human right to water and sanitation in Gaza (PDF 530Kb) COHRE, 2008

Case studies on Efforts to Implement the Right to Water and Sanitation in urban areas, Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and South Africa (PDF 481Kb) Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) Working paper for UN-HABITAT: 20 March 2008

Rapid Assessment Report of the Water and Sanitation Situation within Informal Settlements in Nairobi (PDF 263Kb) Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), March 2008

The human rights-based approach to water and sanitation

The Right to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development : Belinda Calaguas, WaterAid, July 1999

Right to Water, Health & Human Rights Publication Series, No. 3 : Brochure edited by the World Health Organization, Geneva, 2003

“Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Water and Sanitation Improvements at the Global Level”: WHO, 2004

Applying a human rights based approach to development cooperation and programming: A UNDP capacity development resource: UNDP, 2006

Manual on the Right To Water and Sanitation: COHRE, Geneva 2008

Sanitation: A Human Rights Imperative: COHRE, SDC, UN- HABITAT and WaterAid, 2008

The Right to Water in national legislation

The Right to Water in National Legislation : The French Water Academy, Henri Smets 2006

The Right to Water at the World Water Forum, Mexico 2006 : The French Water Academy, Henri Smets 2006

The Right to Water: from concept to implementation : World Water Council 2006

Legal resources

Legal Resources for the Right to Water, International and National Standards: COHRE, 2004

Monitoring Implementation of the Right to Water, a Framework for Developing Indicators: Heinrich Böll Foundation, COHRE, AAAS, 2005

The Right to Water: from concept to implementation: World Water Council, 2006

The Right to Water: A tool for individuals, groups and organisations advancing the human right to water : Unitarian Universalist Service Committee March 2007

Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights, Special Representative of the Secretary General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, A/HRC/8/5, UN, 7 April, 2008

Progress on providing universal access

Keeping the Promise: A Forward- looking Review to Promote and Agreed Action Agenda to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, Report to the Secretary General: United Nations General Assembly, 2010

The MDG target on Water and Sanitation reader: UN- Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC), 2010

UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLAAS), Targeting Resources Better: World Health Organisation, 2010

Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2010 Update: World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), 2010

The Millennium Development Goals Report: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), 2009

Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water, Special Focus on Sanitation: World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), 2008

Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target: the Urban and Rural Challenge of the Decade: World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), 2006

HDR Beyond Water Scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis UNDP, 2006