World Water Forum
Dakar 2022
The Human Right To Water:
Idealism to Implementation
World Water Day: March 22, 2022
Session Organized By
Where: Forum EXPO Room 8, 9am-10:30am
United States
Cameroon
Live Session Program
I. Welcome and Presentation of the Session
Speaker: Will Garde, CRS
II. Global Growth of the Human Right to Water
A. Keynote Presentation: World Water Day Observance: Key challenges for the future achievement of the Human Right to Water (12 minutes)
Speaker: United Nations Special Rapporteur for Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo
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B. Presentations on Global Approaches
Presentation One: Realization of the Human Right to Water Handbook for Realizing the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: The Relevance and the Reissuance
Speaker: Anjani Kapoor, Sanitation and Water for All
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Presentation Two: The UN Human Rights Approach: Charting a Course to Meet the SDGs
Speaker: Andrea Ori, UNHCHR Regional Bureau for West Africa
Slide Presentation: EN FR
Questions & Answers
III. Projects Implementing the Human Right to Water
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Project One: Project to increase access to basic services in informal settlements in peri-urban and rural Casablanca
Organization: Lydec
Speaker: Saadia Zouheir, INDH-INMAE Project Manager
Project Two: CICODEV Presentation
Organization: CICODEV
Speaker: Amadou Kanouté
Slide Presentation: EN FR
Questions & Answers
IV. Conclusions of the Session and Thematic Summation
Speaker: Will Garde, CRS
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Additional Presentations
So many of our collaborators who help advance the work of the Forum could not join the Forum in Dakar for various reasons, ranging from COVID restrictions to cost.
To include more voices and help make the Forum more universal and wide-reaching, we include some of their presentations here.
Projects Advancing the Human Right to Water
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Project One: Activating Journalists: Accountability and Education on the Human Right to Water Through Responsible Reporting
Organization: RECOJAC (Session Organizer)
Speaker: Joseph Moukoué
Video Presentation: FR
Project Two: Access to Water: an Essential Human Right for Peace and Development
Organization: Camide
Speaker: Safiatou Traore
Slide Presentation: EN FR
Video Presentation: FR
Project Three: Building Water Rights Through Kids Well-being at School
Organization: Water is Life Cameroon
Speaker: Pierre Biboum
Audio Presentation: FR
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