Side Event: Successful Stakeholder engagement to advance SDG 6 in the Western Balkans and EECCA region
This side event shared good practices from the UNECE region on how multisectoral stakeholder engagement supports the achievement of SDG 6; highlighted mechanisms for stakeholder engagement and cooperation and sustainable development based on shared water resources, with a focus on achieving; and shared results from the global UN Water conference from the perspective of civil society, governments and other stakeholders from the UNECE region.
Background
Speakers shared best practices from stakeholder cooperation to advance menstrual health, school sanitation and safe drinking water (SDG 6.1-6.3) as well as integrated river basin water management (SDG 6.5, 6.b). This round table discussion with decision-makers, representatives from youth and women's organisations, and UN agencies from the Western Balkan and EECCA region presented the proposed commitments from actors in the UNECE region to the Water Action Decade. Based on existing good practices, highlights from commitments on integrated water management and sanitation were discussed, such as the call for national menstrual health action plans for the implementation of SDG 6.2 which requires to address the specific needs of women and girls in all their diversity, throughout their lifecycle.
Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF); Journalists for Human Rights, North Macedonia; ARGO International, Kazakhstan and Sweden; Black Sea Women’s Club, Ukraine
