HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS, RESILIENT COMMUNITIES - The vital role of sanitation for

Sanitation is a critical entry point in achieving outcomes This paper aims to consolidate data on the across all of the Sustainable Development status of climate change and sanitation in the Goals (SDGs) – from poverty reduction, to Pacific and demonstrate how climate-resilient improving education and nutrition, and sanitation is a critical entry point for achieving reducing maternal and child mor. [...] NGOs and research organisations should support community capacity and awareness building of the links between climate change and sanitation, disaster preparedness and response and the rights and responsibilities of sanitation users, service providers and decision-makers. [...] vision of a resilient, prosperous and healthy The IPCC identifies the provision of water and Pacific outlined in the 2050 Strategy for the sanitation services as one of the most effective Blue Pacific Continent, and a critical entry measures to reduce climate-vulnerability in point in achieving outcomes across the entire the near-term and as a ‘low-regrets’ climate SDG agenda. [...] Despite the importance of working group is applying the WHO’s eight sanitation to protecting the health of patients practical steps (WHO, 2019) to begin to drive and health professionals at the point of systemic change by identifying and addressing healthcare, in 2022 WHO and UNICEF found barriers to sanitation in HCFs. [...] The number of people working through container-based sanitation services in sanitation is difficult to quantify due to the with the aim of enabling sanitation service invisibility and informality of many sanitation providers to sell carbon credits (Andriessen, roles and the intersectoral responsibilities of et al.