{"id":2316,"date":"2020-11-13T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T07:33:50","slug":"un-waters-wsscc-to-transform-to-sanitation-and-hygiene-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"UN Water’s WSSCC to transform to Sanitation and Hygiene Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United Nations-Water, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) will cease to exist as of 31 December 2020, when the organization will become the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF).<\/p>\n

It will have a new structure and operating model. It is an investment mechanism with an operating model that has been designed to deliver sustainable impact at scale.<\/p>\n

The SHF has four strategic objectives: to scale up household sanitation and hygiene services; to address gaps in menstrual health and hygiene while promoting the empowerment of women and girls; to increase sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health and hygiene services in schools and health care facilities; and to support innovation towards safely managed sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health and hygiene.<\/p>\n

The Fund will be launched during an online event on November 17. It is seeking US$2 billion over the coming five years to provide a 21st-century solution to the decades-old crisis on sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health, the SHF stated in a press note. Currently, more than 4 billion people globally do not have access to safely managed sanitation services.<\/p>\n

3 billion lack access to basic handwashing facilities, and nearly 10 percent of the world\u2019s population still practice open defecation.<\/p>\n

Many of the world\u2019s most serious diseases and leading causes of child mortality are related directly to poor sanitation and hygiene. Yet there has been considerable under-investment in this sector for many years, and this has hampered progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n

Today, the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened existing inequalities as masks are too expensive or hard to find, and social distancing is impossible in many of the vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n

The lack of proper sanitation and hygiene adds to the risks to life and livelihood for the world\u2019s most disadvantaged, threatening the foundations of economies and health security.<\/p>\n

Arguing the case for global investment in sanitation and hygiene will be Ms Amina J.<\/p>\n

Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Other speakers include Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of Nigeria; Ms Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director; Ms Grete Faremo, Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services; Mr Gilbert Houngbo, Chair of UN-Water and President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development; Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization; and Dominic O\u2019Neill, Executive Director of the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Nations-Water, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) will cease to exist as of 31 December 2020, when the organization will become the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF). It will have a new structure and operating model. It is an investment mechanism with an operating model that has been designed to deliver sustainable impact at scale. The SHF has four strategic objectives: to scale up household sanitation and hygiene services; to address gaps in menstrual health and hygiene while promoting the empowerment of women and girls; to increase sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health and hygiene services in schools and health care facilities; and to support innovation towards safely managed sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health and hygiene. The Fund will be launched during an online event on November 17. It is seeking US$2 billion over the coming five years to provide a 21st-century solution to the decades-old crisis on sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health, the SHF stated in a press note. Currently, more than 4 billion people globally do not have access to safely managed sanitation services. 3 billion lack access to basic handwashing facilities, and nearly 10 percent of the world\u2019s population still practice open defecation….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}