BALI, Sept 11 : Representatives from 14 governments in East Asia and the Pacific have kicked off the 3rd East Asian Ministerial Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene in this Indonesian resort island in a bid to achieve the ultimate goal of universal sanitation access in the region.
The conference, which opened Monday, has is being attended by more than 250 participants, including government ministers and officials, representatives of partner organizations, the media and academia from China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Timor Leste and Vietnam.
Indonesian Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi opened the conference at Nusa Dua in Bali.
Quoting the Unicef/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme report that the region as a whole has reached the sanitation Millennium Development Goal (MDG) as of 2012, World Bank Water and Sanitation Programme principal regional team leader Almud Weitz said in her opening remarks that reaching the MDG was a very important stepping stone towards the ultimate goal of universal sanitation access.
However, large disparities remained across the region as more than 670 million people still lacked improved sanitation facilities and more than 100 million people still practised open defecation.
The conference, which opened Monday, has is being attended by more than 250 participants, including government ministers and officials, representatives of partner organizations, the media and academia from China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Timor Leste and Vietnam.
Indonesian Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi opened the conference at Nusa Dua in Bali.
Quoting the Unicef/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme report that the region as a whole has reached the sanitation Millennium Development Goal (MDG) as of 2012, World Bank Water and Sanitation Programme principal regional team leader Almud Weitz said in her opening remarks that reaching the MDG was a very important stepping stone towards the ultimate goal of universal sanitation access.
However, large disparities remained across the region as more than 670 million people still lacked improved sanitation facilities and more than 100 million people still practised open defecation.
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