The eThekwini (Ministerial) Declaration made at the AfricaSan conference on Sanitation and Hygiene has now been posted on the conference website. A few notable pledges mentioned are:

• To review, update and adopt national sanitation and hygiene policies within 12 months of AfricaSan 2008; establish one national plan for accelerating progress to meet national sanitation goals and the MDGs by 2015;
• To ensure that one, senior, accountable institution takes clear leadership of the national sanitation portfolio;
• To aspire to allocate a minimum of 0.5% of GDP for sanitation and hygiene.

A Civil Society Statement prepared ANEW (African Civil Society Network on Water and Sanitation) was also published.

Duncan Mara has put together a webpage with the Declarations of all the Regional Sanitation Conferences held since 2003

Source: Sanitation Updates, 28 Feb 2008

Web sites:

• The eThekwini (Ministerial) Declaration
• Civil Society Statement prepared by ANEW
• Duncan Mara’s web page - collection of declarations of sanitation conferences
• AfricaSan web site