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The Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a global partnership committed to achieving universal access to drinking water and adequate sanitation. In 2015, 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, one billion people defecate in the open and 748 million people lack access to an improved source of drinking water. Over 90 partners, including governments, civil society and development partners, work together as part of SWA to coordinate high-level action, improve accountability and use scarce resources more effectively. The SWA Partnership organizes meetings called "High Level Meetings" (HLM). After two HLM in 2010 and 2012, the third HLM took place in Washington DC in April 2014, with over sixty delegations from developing countries and donors, including 20 finance ministers from SWA partner countries. The SWA Secretariat is hosted by the UNICEF at the request of the Steering Committee. The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) works with UNICEF to provide hosting support to the Secretariat. ==History== A number of water and sanitation stakeholders first conceptualised SWA in 2006 to improve access to sanitation and drinking water following the release of two publications: * The Human Development Report ''Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis'', highlights the urgency for key donors and development partners to “provide an institutional point for international efforts to mobilize resources, build capacity and—above all—galvanize political action by putting water and sanitation in a more central position on the development agenda.” * The UK Department for International Development (DFID) 〔〕 report entitled “Why we need a global action plan on water and sanitation” . In 2007, DFID reiterated its call for a better WASH sector coordination and the need for a Global Action Plan based “Five Ones”: # one annual global monitoring report; # one high level global Ministerial Meeting on water; # at country level, one national plan for water and sanitation; # one coordinating body; # and activities of the United Nations (UN) agencies in water and sanitation to be coordinated by one lead UN body under the UNDP country plan . In 2008, DFID, the Dutch Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS), other donors and developing country governments officially agreed to create a Global Framework for Action on Sanitation and Water Supply (GF4A), which was launched at a side-event during the UN MDG High-Level Event. In April 2010, the partners organized the first High Level Meeting in Washington DC, USA and developing countries and donors tabled commitments to improve sanitation and water. In September 2010, under a new name – Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) – the new partnership was formalized with an agreed Governing Document, an elected Steering Committee and a Secretariat 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sanitation and Water for All」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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