Drinking-Water and Sanitation, 1981-1990

Book : Drinking-Water and Sanitation, 1981-1990

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : Geneva

ISBN : 92 4 156068 1

Publish Date : 00 1981

Publisher : World Health Organization WHO

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 2654

INDEX


Contents
Preface
1. Introduction.
1.1 Decade targets and global coverage.
1.2 Outline of the Decade approach
2. Community water supply and sanitation in the Decade. 2.1 Constraints-causes or symptoms of inadequacy?.
2.2 Weaknesses of national strategies
2.3 Weaknesses of international support
2.4 International conferences, decisions and the international consensus
2.5 The policy of WHO: primary health care and the Decade
2.6 Essential elements of the Decade approach
2.6.1 Complementary sanitation and water-supply
development
2.6.2 Strategies that give precedence to underserved
populations, both rural and urban
2.6.3 Programmes that will serve as a model for self-
reliant, self-sustaining action
2.6.4 Socially relevant systems that people can afford
2.6.5 Association of communities in all stages of projects (planning, construction, financing, operation and maintenance)
2.6.6 Coordination of water-supply and sanitation pro-
grammes with those in other sectors
2.6.7 Association of water supply and sanitation with other health improvements
3. A framework for national action
3.1 National action committees and coordination for the Decade
3.2 National planning for the Decade
3.2.1 Formal plans and planning processes
3.2.2 Community participation in the planning process
3.2.3 Strategy seminars and national workshops
3.2.4 Communication and education3.3 Decade programmes
3.3.1 Coverage programms
3.3.2 Support programmes
3.3.3 Striking the balance between coverage and support
programmes
3.4 Coverage programmes
3.4.1 Programmes for rural areas
3.4.2 Programmes for urban-fringe areas
3.4.3 Programmes for small and medium-sized towns
3.4.4 Regional programmes: planning considerations
3.4.5 Intersectoral programmes
3.5 Support programmes
3.5.1 Programmes for manpower development
3.5.2 Programmes for communication and health education
3.5.3 Programmes to encourage community participation
3.5.4 Programmes to provide information and technology
3.5.5 Programmes for health and water-quality surveillance
3.5.6 Programmes for groundwater studies
3.6 The role of health agencies in the Decade
Annex 1. United Nations Water Conference-Resolution II and Plan of Action
Annex 2. Resolution 35/18 of the General Assembly of
the United Nations: Proclamation of the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, 1981-1990