The upcoming SWA Sector Ministers’ Meeting (SMM) will be convened in San Jose, Costa Rica, on 4-5 April 2019 to support the achievement of the water, sanitation and hygiene-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.
It will bring together ministers responsible for water, sanitation, and hygiene and senior government officials from different regions and development levels, as well as leaders from other stakeholders, including civil society, the private sector, donors, development banks, UN agencies, and academia.
Unique in the sector, the SMMs are the culmination of robust ongoing strategic dialogue at a country level, involving multiple stakeholders bound together by the belief that good governance and mutual accountability are key to achieve water and sanitation for all, always and everywhere.
The 2019 SMM will have ‘Leave No One Behind’ as its overall theme and has a single, high-level objective:
To increase awareness and understanding of ‘Leave No One Behind’, its fundamental relationship with WASH, and its implications for leadership, partnership, planning and finance.
To achieve its purpose, the SMM has been designed to deliver four outcomes:
- Leave no one behind. Develop a common understanding of what leave no one behind means, the scale of inequality in WASH, its root causes and its impact.
- Leadership. Highlight the critical role of leadership to focus attention and resources on leave no one behind.
- Finance. Establish how national sector finance strategies can be developed to maximise their impact on eliminating inequality.
- Planning, monitoring and review. Demonstrate how the application of the SWA Framework of Guiding Principles, Collaborative Behaviours and sector Building Blocks can address inequality in WASH.
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dates: 4-5 April 2019
location: San Jose, Costa Rica
Original source: Sanitation and Water For All
Published on 14 March 2019
