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Appendix: Advocacy Papers - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centrethe human dimension of the sector's work.As this approach becomes part of the everyday knowledge of sectorpeople and influences their day to day work, then they can becomeadvocates for the sector in the outside world. If the sector is to arm itspeople to do this work it must monitor its work closely.A Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council joint report*with the World Health Organisation and UNICEF concluded: Due toinadequate advocacy and promotion of the sector in the past, theunserved population continues to grow. Therefore to reach 'universalaccess' advocacy will have to be aggressively pursued to attract alarger share of national and external resources to the sector in future.Effective sector monitoring can play a vital role in advocacy byproviding updated relevant information.When it is seen by politicians and civil servants, and by those who holdthe purse strings for development, that the sector is reaching out to thecommunity, and to other related sectors such as health andenvironment, then the prospects for water and sanitation will betransformed.This will lead, for the first time, to the possibility of bringing safewater and sanitation within the reach of every family on the planet.* Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Monitoring Report 1990.Produced Nov 92 by the WHO, Water Supply and SanitationCollaborative Council, and UNICEF.IRC © 2004 Terms & conditions.http://www.irc.nl/page/6245 (10 of 10) [1/13/2005 12:47:34 PM]