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C. Sanitation

(f) Scaling up quality maternal and child health care in health facilities.

Access to sanitation services for the poor could also be expanded through dedicated comprehensive programmes, such as total sanitation campaigns .

In view of women's role in household sanitation and hygiene, awareness raising campaigns can be effective when targeted to this audience, mobilizing women to spread the sanitation and hygiene message.

12.8.2 Sanitation and drinking water

Strategies for conveying key sanitation and hygiene messages, for example, about hand washing, and for promoting sanitation solutions have proven effective when they are culturally and gender sensitive.

Responding to sanitation needs in urban and rural areas

Rural sanitation could also be improved through strengthening health extension services.

This could involve a combination of targeting the sanitation needs of the poor and increasing support for hygiene education, which can leverage domestic sanitation demand and investment.

Treating sanitation as both a right and a civic responsibility is an approach that can help to shape both individual behaviour and community action for improving sanitation.

According to the 1994 health development plan, the number of formal health provision services is as follows

All major government health facilities have separate facilities for women.

Normative documents were produced to guide practices by the health services and community actions.

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Similarly, the use of satellite communications in telemedicine made quality public health accessible to the underprivileged in areas that had limited health care.

Promotion of the realization of the right to drinking water and sanitation

Wider though still limited access to improved sanitation services.

Promotion of the realization of the right to drinking water and sanitation

While hygiene education and awareness raising are often continuing processes requiring long term donor and government commitment, they can catalyse private demand for sanitation services, thus leveraging household and community sanitation investments.

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Ecological sanitation (ecosan) approaches employed in a number of countries are based on this approach.

A holistic approach to sanitation could include measures for changing attitude and behaviour as a complement to investments in sanitation facilities and infrastructure.

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In theory all health facilities from Basic Health Units to the large hospitals, are equipped to provide at least some form of trauma treatment.

(e) To promote the provision of clean water in all communities for all their children, as well as universal access to sanitation

The lack of resources to run a functioning jail (sanitation, water, food) was also discussed.

The World Summit on Sustainable Development recognized that sanitation is an important priority in its own right.

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The Dakar Roadmap resulting from the First Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Forum offers another useful model for developing countries to meet the sanitation goals.

14.10 Access to health facilities for women in the rural areas has been referred to in Article 12.

The importance of sanitation to effective management of water resources and protection of water related ecosystems was emphasized.

It is hoped that as education spreads and the rural populace becomes aware of the importance of sanitation the situation will improve.

Community based organizations and non governmental organizations could act as catalysts for improved hygiene and sanitation in rural communities, and Governments could assist in training local suppliers of sanitation fixtures and services.

The conditions of women and children had worsened owing to the wall, which prevented them from accessing health facilities.

Since those citizens insisted that the occupation must eventually end and the land must be returned to its rightful owners, they continued to reject all forms of occupation and the imposition of Israeli identity.

The World Bank's Public Expenditure Tracking System could be used, as appropriate, as a model for monitoring the performance and accountability of sanitation systems.

Estimates indicate that only 40 per cent of the population has access to basic health facilities.

The reason is that all facilities provided by the Government health care system are available to both men and women.

While lack of sanitation impacts everyone, the taboo around toilets can disproportionately affect women.

Implementation The Plan attempted to increase access to medical facilities in rural areas through the formation of the Rural Health Service.