Equity and Non-discrimination (END) Working Group
This group was responsible for proposing equity targets and indicators for global monitoring after 2015. The group is now consulted, as needed, to respond to the comments and recommendations made at the two consultations at the end of 2012 (on Measurability, and the Second Global Stakeholder Consultation). It is made up of a core membership of experts, who meet in regular teleconferences as well as less frequent face-to-face meetings. A wider resource group of experts is drawn on as needed.
Core group of experts:
- Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (WG Chair)
- David Bradley, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Mac Darrow, MDG Section, Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Nicolas Fasel and Grace Sanico Steffan, Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Louisa Gosling, WaterAid
- Rifat Hossain, JMP, World Health Organization
- Guy Hutton, consultant for Joint Monitoring Programme
- Rolf Luyendijk, JMP, UNICEF
- Meera Mehta, CEPT University, India
- Archana Patkar, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
- Virginia Roaf, Team of the UN Special Rapporteur
- Shea O. Rutstein, ICF International, USA
- Ignacio Saiz, Center for Economic and Social Rights, Spain
- Madoka Saji, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Meg Satterthwaite, New York University School of Law
- Marcus Stahlhofer, World Health Organization
- Inga Winkler, Legal Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur
- Zulma Zosa and Elizabeth Barrios, National Statistical Office, Paraguay
Wider group of experts:
- Andre Dzikus, UN-Habitat
- Elaine Ireland, Sightsavers
- Ashfaq Khalfan, Amnesty International
- Graham Fox, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Equity and Non-Discrimination (END) working group is guided by a generic terms of reference for all working groups. [read more]
Initially, working groups will collect a "long list" of targets and indicators, which will then be reduced to a short list based on their appropriateness for global monitoring. Proposals will also be made to the sanitation working group for targets and indicators covering equity issues. The short list will be consolidated with targets and indicators from the other working groups, and discussed at an international meeting in December 2012. Following this, in early 2013, a Core Consultative Group will be responsible for proposing a final list of targets and indicators.
The support of the individuals and institutions belonging to the sanitation working group is highly appreciated.
Documents
Below is a summary of key documents produced by the END working group:
- Background paper, commissioned for the working group
- Affordability paper, commissioned for the working group
- Minutes of telephone meeting (9 February 2012)
- Agenda of working group meeting in Lisbon 27-28 February 2012
- Minutes of WG meeting in Lisbon 27-28 February 2012
- Minutes of teleconference (11 April 2012)
- Action points from the February meeting
- Final report of the END working group
Selected technical outputs of the END working group and Special Rapporteur:
- Capturing Spatial Analysis of Slums in Global Monitoring
- Menstrual Hygiene Management Paper for END working group
- Summary of work of the JMP WG on Equity and Non-Discrimination
- Information sheet on reducing inequalities towards a post-2015 development agenda
- Special Rapporteur's report on post-2015 submitted to the General Assembly and its summary
Selection of reference documents:
- The General Assembly Resolution 64/292
- The Human Rights Council Resolution 15/9
- The report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation on the MDGs
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