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Published Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Former President Chinchilla appointed
in Global Leadership Council
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
On Monday, the Sanitation and Water for All, hosted by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, UNICEF, announced that former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla has joined the Global Leadership Council, GLC.
Chinchilla was President from 2010 to 2014.
"I feel honored to serve on the Global Leadership Council alongside distinguished leaders," posted former President Chinchilla on her Twitter page. "From there, we will promote actions for universal access to water and health for the world population."
GLC is a group of appointed leaders who will advocate for universal water, sanitation and hygiene in the lead up to 2030, the deadline for achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Among other people included in the group are Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister and current President of the Asia Society, Henrietta Fore, UNICEF's Executive Director; Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever; and Kumi Naidoo, former Secretary-General of Amnesty International and former Executive Director of Greenpeace.
According to the organization, GLC has been formed to advocate for and mobilize wider political commitment to the prioritization of water, sanitation and hygiene, build better governance structures and institutions to achieve SDG6 by the year 2030, and enhance the visibility of sanitation, water and hygiene both globally and nationally.
In their new roles, Chinchilla and the rest of the group members will draw upon their experience and network of contacts in government, business, UN agencies, and civil society, to campaign for a multi-stakeholder approach in the political dialogue, and a unified front to overcome the challenges of achieving universal water and sanitation by 2030.
Created in 2009, SWA is an UN-based growing global, intergovernmental, multi-stakeholder partnership for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector, comprising country governments from Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Europe; civil society; development partners, including regional development banks, UN Agencies, and philanthropic institutions as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, research and learning institutions, regulators and utilities and the private sector.
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