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ODI On... The Year on Sanitation 2008

21 November 2007 - 20 November 2008

Water Policy Programme is researching on many of the issues behind the International Year of Sanitation. This page collates some of the key resources from ODI on sanitation.

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The Davos Question: Delivering on the International Year of Sanitation

Opinion - Films and videos - 18 January 2008

Peter Newborne, of the Overseas Development Institute, offers his answer to the Davos Question, highlighting the importance on achieving sanitation for all, a goal of the UN's International Year of Sanitation.

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Why the International Year of Sanitation is no matter for prudery

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 14 November 2007

2007-2008 is going to mark an important initiative

On November 21st, 2007 the UN will launch the International Year of Sanitation (IYS).

What, a year talking about ... toilets?!?

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Sanitation and Hygiene has risen up the international policy agenda in recent years. It has been included under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) within Target 10, which sets an aim to:

"Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation"

The International Year of Sanitation (IYS) was launched on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. It was declared in December 2006 by the United Nations General Assembly, in recognition of the poor progress has been made towards the Millennium Development Goals sanitation target, and aims to develop awareness and action to meet the MDG sanitation target.

ODI's Water Policy Programme is researching on many of the issues behind the International Year of Sanitation. This page collates some of the key resources from ODI on sanitation.