About Water, Sanitation and Health
Vision and Mission
The WSH Vision
The attainment by all peoples of the lowest possible burden of water and sanitation-related disease through primary prevention
The WSH Mission
- Providing leadership in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene related issues (by making authoritative statements, influencing policy and coordinating networks of partners and collaborating centres)
- Normative work (mainly on water quality, but also on monitoring appraaches and interventions, usually resulting in guidelines and best practice texts)
- Providing evidence (through various monitoring activities, but also through commissioned research)
- Supporting Member States (through technical cooperation and capacity building)
- Responding to emergencies (the role in the Health Cluster - WASH in healthcare - and in the WASH cluster - restoring safe water supplies and adequate sanitation)
- Knowledge management (through analysis, synthesis and dissemination of reliable and credible information)
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