REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF PROGRESS Setting targets and monitoring progress

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REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF PROGRESS Setting
targets and monitoring progress

• MP.WAT/WG.4/2005/4 EUR/05/5047554/4

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Background

• 4-WGWH requested ad hoc working group to develop
  guidance document for implementation of Articles
  6 and 7 of the Protocol.
• Guidance document to contain coherent set of
  indicators for examination by 5-WGWH

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Copenhagen 9 10 May

• Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Malta,
  the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia,
  Ukraine
• UNECE, OECD
• ISO, EUREAU
• WHO and WHO Collaborating Centres

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Setting targets

• Global commitments
• Millennium Development Goals
• Universal Human rights
• Regional commitments
• Conference of Ministers of Health and Environment
• European Directives
• National priorities

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Key target areas based on human rights

• Access to water
• Quality of the water supplied
• Quality of the service
• Reasonable distance

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Monitoring progress

• Scientifically and technically sound
• Compatible with existing systems
• Complement existing systems
• Field-tested before the 1-MOP-PWH

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Indicator criteria

• Representative answer public service questions
  regarding quality, continuity, and economy and
  responsive to new expectations
• Measurable and reliable easily accessible data,
  clear definition, and calculation method
• Understandable each indicator makes sense to all
  stakeholders

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Indicators considered

• JMP technology based
• EU monitoring strategy
• ECOHEIS ENHIS
• National reporting systems
• Mediterranean Action Plan
• ISO

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Table 1 CPH REPORT
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Problems expected

• Lack of information electronic or otherwise
• Wide dissipation of information over different
  stakeholders
• Incoherence in data formats
• Need for external quality control

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Progress

• Two types of field testing
• Field-testing ECOHEIS ECOHENIS
• Amended WHO UNICEF JMP
• Problems encountered
• Generally operable
• Suggestions for improvement

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Actions by WGWH

• Agree on the proposal of the expert group.
• Environmental aspects/parameters.
• Preparation for 1-MOP-PWH
• Guidance document.
• Current status baseline.
• Existing documentation
• Provided by focal point
• Special meeting for EECCA.