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The EU and The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Normative Coherence as the Key to Transformative Development

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  • Harlan Koff

    (University of Luxembourg.)

  • Carmen Maganda

    (Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), Xalapa, México.)

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The year 2015 is supposed to be a seminal moment in the international sustainable development agenda. World leaders are negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda and the European Union has declared 2015 to be the ‘European Year for Development’. The Post-2015 agenda is supposed to be characterized by more ‘transformative’ development strategies. Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is considered to be an important tool for the establishment of ‘transformative’ development. This article examines EU development programmes in the field of water. It contends that even though the EU is a world leader in global water and sanitation programmes, its approach to development is not coherent with transformative change because these strategies employ PCD as a technical policy tool. Instead, the article contends that transformative development requires ‘normative coherence for development’ defined as coherence between strategies in development and non-development policy arenas and core democratic norms, such as human rights.

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  • Harlan Koff & Carmen Maganda, 2016. "The EU and The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Normative Coherence as the Key to Transformative Development," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 28(1), pages 91-110, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:28:y:2016:i:1:p:91-110
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    1. Johanna Weststrate & Geske Dijkstra & Jasper Eshuis & Alberto Gianoli & Maria Rusca, 2019. "The Sustainable Development Goal on Water and Sanitation: Learning from the Millennium Development Goals," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 143(2), pages 795-810, June.
    2. Victoria Graham & Suzanne Graham, 2022. "The African Small Island Developing States and normative coherence for sustainable development: The quality of civil rights and liberties," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(S1), June.
    3. Sandra Häbel & Harlan Koff & Marie Adam, 2022. "Normative coherence for development and regionalism: Gender equality in ASEAN's migration policies," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(S1), June.
    4. Lauri Siitonen, 2022. "A normative power or fortress Europe? Normative policy coherence between the European Unionʼs development, migration, and foreign policies," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(S1), June.
    5. Edith Kauffer & Carmen Maganda, 2022. "The adoption of global water norms in Central America: What separates normative coherence from normative hegemony?," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(S1), June.
    6. Harlan Koff & Antony Challenger & Israel Portillo, 2020. "Guidelines for Operationalizing Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) as a Methodology for the Design and Implementation of Sustainable Development Strategies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-25, May.
    7. Alexandra Berger, 2022. "Development as non‐migration? Examining normative and policy coherence in EU external action on migration and development," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(S1), June.
    8. Harlan Koff & Sandra Häbel, 2022. "Normative coherence for development: What relevance for responsive regionalism?," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(S1), June.

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