Quiz 2. The human rights to water and sanitation & service regulation

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Regulatory bodies play an essential role in the human rights to water and sanitation framework because their primary responsibility is to:

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Assess whether water and sanitation standard and principles are being progressively met, and influencing policy formulation and changes in line with these standards and principles.

Set and monitor service standards that are not necessarily in line with the normative content of the human rights to water and sanitation.

Establish, maintain, and upgrade the water and sanitation services.

Establish and implement the public policies which explicitly refer to the human rights to water and sanitation.

The most appropriate regulatory framework, from a human rights perspective, is:

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Self-regulation, because public service providers can regulate their own activities, set tariffs and quality standards, and monitor their own performance.

Regulation by contract, because the contractual arrangements can include the necessary human rights safeguards.

Separate regulatory body, because this independence from the government allows for a better regulation of the sector.

There is no universal best regulatory framework, as it depends on the context of each country.

What are the main functions of regulatory actors in relation to the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation?

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Setting standards to provide a practical meaning to the normative content of these rights.

Monitoring implementation to gather information that helps identify bottlenecks, gaps, and challenges in realizing these rights.

Ensuring accountability to uphold the standards and rules established and, ultimately, to safeguard these rights.

Adopting policies and strategies that incorporate the normative content of these rights, in order to progressively realize them.

In regards to the regulation of informal service provision – in rural areas or informal settlements in peri-urban areas, for instance – the following holds true:

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Informal service provision should never be bound to regulation, as it is a way to recognize and validate them.

Although regulating these informal small-scale providers is far more complex, it is still necessary to make efforts to supervise them.

The best policy approach to regulating informal providers depends on the particular circumstances of each case.

Informal providers should always be replaced by formal ones, regardless of whether this worsens the situation and leaves people without access to services.

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