How does DFID integrate its work on water and sanitation with its strategies on health and education?
DFID promotes inter-disciplinary working in our country programmes and on policy but we recognise that we need to do more to promote an integrated approach to tackling the sanitation MDG target in particular. The recent call for a high-level annual global meeting on water and sanitation has raised awareness of the central role of the sector. In taking forward our commitments in the recent White Paper, DFID is now working together to strengthen our support for the essential public services of water, sanitation, health, education and social protection. With the increasing evidence of the likely effect of climate change on water access, our water resource management advisers are working more closely with climate change experts and vice versa. One example of cross sector working is a new public services group which brings together advisers focussing on health, education, water and sanitation, and social protection. DFID’s Girls’ Education Strategy (2005) commits us to supporting clean wate
