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Acronyms
Annual overview report for 2004/05 - E/2005/63
Resolution, including the original text of the agreement - 58/232
CEB/2003/HLCM/22
Knowledge Sharing
Organization and methods
Staff mobility
Session Reports
One United Nations (Ch 2, paras 57 - 59)
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57. In 2003, CEB adopted a set of approaches and guidelines to orient the system’s follow-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The aim was to strengthen system-wide support for the implementation of WSSD outcomes and effectively to integrate them into the follow-up processes for other relevant UN conferences. In so doing, CEB strove to maximize the impact of the WSSD outcomes on progress across the MDGs.
58. As part of this process and under the aegis of CEB’s agencies, inter-agency collaborative arrangements for the follow-up to WSSD—dealing with water and sanitation (UN-Water), energy (UN-Energy), oceans and coastal areas (UN-Oceans), and patterns of consumption and production—were established or strengthened.
59. UN-Water’s World Water Assessment Programme is an integral part of the UN system’s contribution to the realization of the Millennium Declaration commitments to “halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world’s people who are unable to reach, or to afford, safe drinking water” and to “stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources, by developing water development strategies at the regional, national and local levels, whichpromote both equitable access and adequate supplies.” The main product of the World Water Assessment Programme is the World Water Development Report. Released on World Water Day 2003, its first edition, “Water for People, Water for Life,” provided an initial assessment of progress towards achieving water-related goals in the context of the larger pursuit of sustainable development. The report’s second edition will be released on World Water Day 2006.
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