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SDG 6 Synthesis Report on Water and Sanitation

Background

In 2015, the new ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ setting universal and transformative goals and targets and Member States committed to ensure that ‘No One Is Left Behind’.

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) has a central role in follow-up and review of the progress made towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. Each of the annual HLPF has a preset specific theme, and a subset of goals to be reviewed. SDG 6 will be reviewed for the first time in July 2018, under the theme ‘Transformation towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies’, along with a pre-selected set of several other SDGs (#’s 7, 11, 12, 15, 17).

In line with this, the ‘SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation’ was produced by a UN-Water Task Force. This first Synthesis Report of SDG 6 seeks to inform discussions among Member States during the HLPF and the in-depth review of SDG 6. It provides an overview of the current situation and trends at global and regional levels. It also brings together the latest data available for the eleven SDG 6 global indicators selected by Member States to track progress towards the eight global targets, plus complementary data and evidence from a wide range of twenty-three different sources. The report presents data on the global baseline status of SDG 6 and, importantly, what more needs to be done to achieve the goal by 2030.

The final draft version of the Synthesis Report was presented to Members States on 2 May 2018 in an event at the Mission of Finland in New York that was co-hosted by Permanent Delegation of Finland to the UN and the Permanent Delegation of Lebanon to the UN, in order to inform the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in July 2018 (link to event).

The Report

The SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 provides an overview of the status of SDG 6 implementation at the global levels, as well as some comprehensive information about how SDG 6 is interlinked to other SDG targets and indicators of the Agenda 2030 and the overall sustainability challenges that nations around the world are faced with. By summarizing the progress towards the achievement of SDG 6, this report provides Member States with the ‘big picture’ on water and sanitation issues, outlining ways to accelerate progress towards this goal. This will enable countries to develop a roadmap towards a more sustainable development, for which water is critical in many regards.

SDG 6 Synthesis Report and the SDGs ©WWAP

The Task Force & Financial Support

The ‘SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation’ was produced by a UN-Water Task Force This Task Force is composed by the following UN-Water members and partners: CEO Water Mandate, FAO, ILO, UN-Habitat, UN-Water Technical Advisory Unit (TAU), UNDP, UNECE, UNEP, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNU, WHO, WMO and World Bank. The Task Force is coordinated by the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) of UNESCO, which brings to the table its 16-year experience in producing the World Water Development Reports.

The development of the report is financially supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Government of Italy, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment of the Netherlands, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Public Dialogue

From 2 May to 14 September 2018, the report and its findings are discussed in a public dialogue. Participants focus on giving feedback on the report, the main messages that will be brought to the HLPF and the way forward.
Join the conversation here.

See below additional material on this Report:

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