4000 children die every day from diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation.
Breaking barriers to achieve a healthy world
End Water Poverty joins forces with global networks to demand joint action to achieve MDGs
22 June 2010
Along with Action for Global Health, Action Contre La Faim and WaterAid; End Water Poverty has produced a report entitled 'Breaking Barriers: working together to achieve a healthy hunger-free world.’
The report makes key recommendations ahead of the UN MDG+10 Summit in New York this September, when Heads of State will gather at the UN to discuss progress in reaching the MDGs and the necessary action that needs to be taken before the 2015 deadline.
Progress has been far too slow – nine million children still die every year from preventable causes, and the numbers of people going to bed hungry is on the rise. Progress has also been deeply uneven, with key targets like sanitation significantly off track – in Sub-Saharan Africa the target will not be met for another 200 years unless drastic action is taken.
The report outlines the problems that have led to the current situation, such as a lack of political focus given to development, a further lack of focus on the most off track areas like sanitation and too little recognition of how inter-connected the different development targets are. This inequity in approaches holds progress back in all areas.
Read ‘Breaking Barriers: working together to achieve a healthy hunger-free world’, which calls for a well-financed and accountable Global Action Plan for all the MDGs, a smarter and more integrated approach to development, and a renewed focus on some of the regions and targets most off-track, including sanitation and water, nutrition and those related to health.
This report will be used as a basis for advocacy over the coming months, along with resources at www.endwaterpoverty.org/mdg2010.
You can also read the report in French (
253KB) and Spanish ( 241KB).
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