* One of 14 publications comprising the official UN strategy on how
to reduce extreme poverty and achieve the fundamental worldwide
human development goals for the coming decade * Project directed by
Jeffrey D. Sachs, named one of the 100 most influential people in
the world by Time Magazine, current Director of The Earth
Institute, Columbia University, and Special Adviser to UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan* The essential reference work for all
governments, policymakers, aid and donor agencies, development
practitioners, researchers, and students worldwideAt least 1.1
billion people lack access to safe water and 2.6 billion lack
access to basic sanitation, resulting in the deaths of 3,900
children per day. "Health Dignity and Development" highlights the
global water and sanitation crisis and advances a comprehensive set
of strategies to tackle the problem, including national
elaboration, government, and stakeholder commitments. It focuses on
sustainable service delivery, empowering communities, support from
private partners, promoting innovation, and improving global
structures. The strategies will improve domestic water and
sanitation and invest in "integrated" development and management of
water resources with the objective of halving the proportion of
people without access to safe water and sanitation within ten
years.The UN Millennium Development Library Health Dignity and
Development, in conjunction with the flagship publication Investing
in Development, is one of 13 thematic publications that comprise
the UN Millennium Library. This set of reference handbooks charts
world progress and presents strategies for dramatically reducing
extreme poverty in its many dimensions--incomepoverty, hunger,
disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure, and shelter--by 2015,
while promoting gender equality, education, health, and
environmental sustainability. This Library is the official,
comprehensive point of reference and action plan for achieving the
fundamental development objectives embodied in the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the UN and world leaders in
2000.
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