Unece equitable acces
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While Macedonians generally have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, inequities still exist. Roma communities, especially in Skopje, have much less access - only 16% have toilets and bathrooms and 26% access to water. Educational and health facilities also lack adequate facilities for maintaining menstrual hygiene. Addressing these inequities requires standards for menstrual hygiene management, public toilets, and services for vulnerable groups like the homeless and those in informal settlements. Challenges include geographical disparities, lack of funding, and proper operation and maintenance of water and sanitation systems.
Unece equitable acces
- 1. Measuring progress in achieving equitable access to water and sanitation: gender perspective Natasha Dokovska JHR Meeting of the Parties to the UNECE-WHO/Europe Protocol on Water and Health 14 November, 2016 Geneva
- 2. Gender Mainstreaming ‘A common misunderstanding about gender mainstreaming is that it requires some sort of gender balance’ in any intervention, meaning an equal representation of women and men and not any women- specific project or components’. - Smita Mishra Panda
- 3. Gender equality and equitable access to water and sanitation in Macedonia Journalist for Human Rights in cooperation with Institute for Human health in Macedonia and support of UNECE secretariat Protocol for Water and Health conduct the Score card for equity access to water in sanitation in 2015/2016. - In 3 communities - With multi stockholders approach - Involvement of more than half of population in Macedonia - Multiethnic
- 4. General results : Macedonians drink safe water and have access to sanitation 91% 9% cities acces to drinking water cities acces towater in wall 48% 52% village acces to drinking water village access the water from wall
- 5. General results : Macedonians drink safe water and have access to sanitation 87% 13% cities acces to sewerage cities with pit lantrine 21% 79% village acces to sewerage village with pit lantrine
- 6. Macedonians drink safe water and have access to sanitation, but • In every hospital ward there are separate toilets for men and women and bathrooms for personal hygiene, while other health facilities have toilets for men and women, not suitable for maintaining menstrual hygiene
- 7. Macedonians drink safe water and have access to sanitation, but • All educational institutions in the city have access to safe water and sanitation. • All educational institutions in the city and countryside have special toilets for men and women as well as in larger schools in the villages, and in some of the smaller satellite schools have common toilets. • But, none of the educational institutions have adequate facilities to maintain menstrual hygiene.
- 8. Macedonians drink safe water and have access to sanitation, but • In Skopje, municipality of Shuto Orizari has the highest percentage of families living in housing without water and sanitation. • The most affected are the women and girl
- 9. Macedonians drink safe water and have access to sanitation, but • According to the latest survey by the NGO "InSoC" 95 per cent of Roma are poor • Only 16 per cent of Roma living in Skopje have a toilet and a bathroom, • The rest use toilets outside of their homes. Just 26 per cents have access to water.
- 10. Causes In the region of Skopje there are 25346 Roma who are registered, or 5% of the total population, of which 72% are receiving social assistance. NGOs working with the Roma population, primarily InSoC are active and have conducted extensive surveys that suggest that one of the main problems Roma in Macedonia and Skopje face, are illegal buildings which are not connected to the water supply and sanitation system.
- 11. Obstacle • Geographical disparity • Lack of finance in the municipalities to develop and maintains the access to water and sanitation • Missing WWWTP ( except in municipality Kumanovo) • Lack of public toilets (except in Veles) • Lack of MHM in schools (except in one private school in Veles) • Lack of access to drinking water and sanitation for homeless • Bacteriologically improper drinking water in rural areas (20-40%) • No access to drinking water and sanitation in religious facilities
- 12. Challenges • Setting standards for MHM
- 13. Challenges • Setting standards for toilets in public institutions, schools and religious facilities
- 14. Challenges • Setting up and implementing measures for social protection of the population • Embrace services to the poor informal settlements as a key utility corporate objective and articulate this within guidelines, strategies and principles in the provision of services to low income areas