Human Rights & SDGs
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Acciona Agua – Sustainable Water Supply in Water Scarce Regions (2017)
Acciona created the Acciona Agua division to provide global solutions for the sustainable development of the water sector and to supply water to people primarily in water-scarce regions.
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Blueprint for Business Leadership on the SDGs: SDG 6 (2017)
This document provides guidance and examples for how businesses can be leaders in the efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6.
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Bringing a Human Rights Lens To Corporate Water Stewardship (2012)
This paper aims to assist large-scale water-using companies by providing useful approaches to, and concrete examples of, what respect for the human right to water and sanitation means in practice.
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BRK Ambiental Presents: Women and Sanitation (2019)
This study analyzes, from several complementary points of view, the issue of women’s lives and access to sanitation in Brazil, and how the lack of sanitation compromises the health of Brazilian women.
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CEO Guide to the SDGs (2017)
Discover clear steps that CEOs can take towards aligning their companies with the SDGs and unlocking the value they represent.
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Children’s Rights and Business Principles (2013)
Guidance, tools, and approaches to respecting children’s rights in and out of the workplace.
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Coca-Cola: Respecting the Human Right to Water and Sanitation
As a beverage company, Coca-Cola recognize the indispensable nature of water in advancing healthy ecosystems, communities, business, agriculture and commerce.
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Connected and Flowing: A Renewable Future for Rivers, Climate and People (2019)
This report explores how a set of planning approaches, and policy and financial mechanisms, can ensure that the world benefits from the renewable revolution by accelerating the arrival of power systems that are low carbon, low cost, and low impact.
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Corporate Engagement on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2017)
A high-level summary of research findings and recommendations for driving progress on WASH and SDG6 through supply-chains and voluntary standards.
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Drinking Water Guide: A Resource for Advocates (2019)
River Network’s Drinking Water Guide is a first step in helping to create a more informed and engaged national network of advocates for safe, clean, affordable, and sustainable drinking water systems.
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Easing the Transition to Commercial Finance for Sustainable Water and Sanitation (2017)
This report articulates a framework for innovative financing to achieve SDG6, particularly targets 6.1–6.4.
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Guidance for Companies on Respecting the Human Rights to Water & Sanitation (2015)
This Guidance aims to help business effectively align corporate water stewardship practice with the corporate responsibility to respect the human rights to water and sanitation.
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Guidance on Menstrual Health and Hygiene (2019)
This guidance was developed for UNICEF WASH, Education, Health, and Gender specialists or focal points in country offices who are working with their partners to develop programs related to menstrual health and hygiene.
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Guide to Menstrual Hygiene Materials (2019)
This document provides guidance for staff from the UNICEF Supply Division and Programme Division on the selection and procurement of appropriate materials and supplies for menstrual hygiene management, particularly during humanitarian response.
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H&M – Human Right to Water and Sanitation
H&M is committed to ensuring that water is used responsibly throughout the company’s value chain. H&M does this to minimize risks in its operations, to protect the environment and to secure the availability of water for people.
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IWRM Action Plan Searcher (2021)
The IWRM Action Searcher is a database of priority actions for advancing IWRM as a means of achieving broader water-related objectives.
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Leveraging the Power of Collaborations (2020)
This report explores the dynamics driving the evolution of company collaboration in and across sectors and highlights some of the innovative models that have developed.
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Live: Country Experiences on COVID-19 and WASH (2020)
This live-blog shares WASH approaches Sanitation and Water for All partners are taking in response to the COVID-19 emergency.
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Make Way for the Future of Sanitation (2020)
This report provides a review of new enterprise models shaping the development of a transformational sanitation economy.
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Maneuvering Towards a Water Safe Future (2018)
This report aims both to draw attention to the severity of the water crisis and to illustrate that new forms of partnership are essential to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
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Mapping the Oil and Gas Industry to the Sustainable Development Goals (2017)
The Atlas explores the links between the oil and gas industry and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and seeks to facilitate a shared understanding of how the industry can most effectively support the achievement of the SDGs.
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Mining Co. in Tanzania: Contamination & Supporting Access to Water (2011)
A mining operation in Tanzania confronts their impact on local water quality.
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Mining Company in India: Access to Water and Gender-Related Impacts (2011)
A mining company engages with the local community and an NGO to work towards sustainable water solutions.
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Nature-Based Solutions for Water (2018)
The United Nations World Water Development Report for 2018.
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Newmont Global Water Strategy
Every Newmont facility has developed a water management charter and plan using an integrated, basin-wide approach that addresses stakeholder and mine water needs and meets all applicable laws and regulations.
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Oil & Gas Company in Tunisia: Conflict and Divisions within Local Communities (2011)
A company faces challenges in engaging local fishing communities.
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On the Frontline: the State of the World’s Water 2020
This analysis examines how climate change is making it harder for people in the world’s poorest countries to rely on being able to drink clean water every day and calls for urgent action from governments and the international community to include safe water and sanitation plans for dealing with the impacts of climate change.
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Pathways to Achieving SDGs Related to Water and Sanitation: India (2015)
This paper is one of the first to show how Hindustan Unilever Limited, through its foundation in India, is drawing connections between the local and the global to contribute to the goal of water and sanitation for all.
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Period Poverty: What Is It & How Can We Help? (2020)
All around the world women are being held back in life and even put in danger, simply because of their period. This guide will outline key problems related to period poverty, what’s being done, and how it can be eradicated for good.
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Post-2015 Agenda and Related SDGs Issue Focus: Water & Sanitation (2014)
The purpose of this issue paper is to inform governments and policy makers of the responsible business community’s willingness to contribute to the formation of any water and sanitation goals as well as future implementation efforts involving the private sector.
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Private Sector and Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2015)
Analysis and recommendations on how to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 6 and 17, based on interviews with over 60 individuals representing over 40 organizations from the private sector, government, civil society, and NGOs.
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Quality Unknown : The Invisible Water Crisis (2019)
This report examines the effects of water quality on economic growth, presenting new evidence and new data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath water’s surface.
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Realizing the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (2014)
The United Nations Special Rapporteur has been working closely with several organizations interested in understanding what the human rights to water and sanitation mean for their work, and how to translate these rights into practice.
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Recursos Hídricos, Servicios de Agua Potable y Cuencas Hidrográficas (ODS 6) (2018)
Guía de recursos realizada con la colaboración de la División de Recursos Naturales e Infraestructura de CEPAL.
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Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals (2017)
Synthesis Report of the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic Initiative, which focuses on what it would take to reduce existing inequalities in WASH services worldwide.
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Scaling Corporate Action on Access to WASH in Supply Chains – White Paper (2016)
This paper lays out current company approaches and highlights potential areas to explore during the project’s second phase, focused on developing tools, guidance, and resources.
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SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation (2018)
This first synthesis report on SDG 6 is an in-depth review and includes data on the global baseline status of SDG 6, the current situation and trends at global and regional levels, and what more needs to be done to achieve this goal by 2030.
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SDG Action Manager (2020)
The United Nations Global Compact is introducing the SDG Action Manager to provide all types of businesses with an opportunity to learn about, manage, and directly improve their sustainability performance. The UN Global Compact invites you to register for the SDG Action Manager. This impact management tool is free and confidential.
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SDG Compass (2015)
Learn how your company can align its strategies as well as measure and manage its contribution to the realization of the SDGs.
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SDG Knowledge Hub (2018)
An online resource center for news and commentary regarding the implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including all 17 SDGs.
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SDG Resource Centre (2017)
Leading-edge information on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Serving the Public Interest: Corporate Water Stewardship and Sustainable Development (2015)
An increasing number of companies recognize that water poses a significant risk to their business and have begun to take action to mitigate their risks via improved water management practices and stewardship. This paper proposes a new recognition that companies seeking to manage water-related business risks can and should contribute to improved water and sanitation management and governance that is also in the public interest.
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Short-Changed on Climate Change: Money, Water and the People on the Frontline (2020)
This report explores how the already low levels of funding spent on climate change aren’t being targeted to help the worst affected countries deal with the effects, putting billions of lives at risk.
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Start with Water: Putting Water on Local Action Agendas to Support Global Change (2018)
This guide seeks to respond to the call of local and regional authorities for greater clarity on what global development frameworks mean for them in terms of water management, and also identifies ways for them to support global sustainable development.
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Strengthening the Business Case for WASH – Breakfast Session Summary (2019)
The summary of this session held at Stockholm World Water Week 2019 highlights progress made by companies pilot-testing guidance from Strengthening the Business Case for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and offers insight on next steps.
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Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management Toolbox (2020)
The SSWM Toolbox compiles thousands of “best of” instruments geared to optimize sanitation and water management intervention at a local level all curated in an easy-to-understand yet comprehensive way.
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SWA Webinar Series on COVID-19 and WASH (2020)
This webinar series is organized by SWA and consists of dialogues on COVID-19 and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
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The Business Case for Action on WASH (2018)
Analysis of the corporate water disclosures submitted to investors through CDP reveals a strengthening business case for companies investing in WASH.
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The Business Case for Investing in WASH (2017)
This paper presents the case for the business value creation and economic benefits associated with positive actions on WASH as well as outlining how business can contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 6.
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The Circular Sanitation Economy (2017)
The objective of this publication is to demonstrate the commercial viability of the Circular Sanitation Economy and showcase the new business models operating at city scale.