Health, Dignity And Development

* One of 14 publications comprising the official UN strategy on how to reduce extreme poverty and achieve the fundamental worldwide human development goals for the coming decade * Project directed by Jeffrey D. Sachs, named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, current Director of The Earth Institute, Columbia University, and Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan * The essential reference work for all governments, policymakers, aid and donor agencies, development practitioners, researchers, and students worldwide At least 1.1 billion people lack access to safe water and 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation, resulting in the deaths of 3,900 children per day. "Health Dignity and Development" highlights the global water and sanitation crisis and advances a comprehensive set of strategies to tackle the problem, including national elaboration, government, and stakeholder commitments. It focuses on sustainable service delivery, empowering communities, support from private partners, promoting innovation, and improving global structures. The strategies will improve domestic water and sanitation and invest in "integrated" development and management of water resources with the objective of halving the proportion of people without access to safe water and sanitation within ten years. The UN Millennium Development Library Health Dignity and Development, in conjunction with the flagship publication Investing in Development, is one of 13 thematic publications that comprise the UN Millennium Library. This set of reference handbooks charts world progress and presents strategies for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions--income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure, and shelter--by 2015, while promoting gender equality, education, health, and environmental sustainability. This Library is the official, comprehensive point of reference and action plan for achieving the fundamental development objectives embodied in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the UN and world leaders in 2000.