BARCELONA — With the arrival of COVID-19 came renewed attention and efforts to improve access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in places where this may have been lacking.
That attention in turn highlighted gaps, some say — a lack of coordination within the sector and a shortage of financing, for example.
While the health sector has the World Health Organization, migration has the United Nations Refugee Agency, and education has UNICEF, the WASH sector currently lacks a global organizing body, as UN-Water acts only as a coordination group for the United Nations’ water efforts and not for the wider sector.