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Delegation from

Kingdom of Swaziland

Represented by
National Taipei University of Technology
I. Building Democratic Governance by Expanding Access to Justice
A nations greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. Mahatma Gandhi. The core
value of democratic governance is peoples human rights and freedoms are respected, promoted and fulfilled,
allowing them to live with dignity. With the help from the UNDP, Swaziland has adopted its first National
Constitution in 2006. Since its adaptation, the Swaziland government has dedicated to enforce the Bill of
Rights that entrenches gender equality, freedom of speech and association. Moreover, in response to
constitutional provision for free primary education, our government is progressively introducing state-funded
education, making this service a right for every child. However, the flaw, as shared by nearly all member
states, is despite the empowerment of legal framework, the poor and marginalized are still too often denied the
ability to seek remedies in a fair justice system. Swaziland deeply convinced that to expand a nations
democratic governance coverage, the priority is to improve access to justice that empowers the poor to enforce
those human rights. Given the political condition varies from country to country, Swaziland
believes a universal solution cant be applied within all member states. Therefore,
Swaziland urges the UNDP to identify staff teams and open its branch offices in
countries to increase its cooperation and partnership with each member state. In this
practice, both UN and member states will be better positioned to facilitate democratic
governance, which is fundamental for member states to attain development priorities as set out in the
Millennium Development Goals.
II. Fostering Developing Countries Capacities for Climate Change Adaptation
Undoubtedly, global warming holds accountable for the increasing frequency and magnitude of extreme
disaster events such as hurricane, flood and drought, which greatly undermine national development and claim
millions of lives each year. A report conducted by the United Nations Universitys Institute for Environment
and Human Security (UNU-EHS) indicates that the majority of the countries facing the highest climate
change risk are developing countries, which havent contributed significantly to the causes of climate change.
Swaziland isnt condemning the industrialized countries for the massive amount of green house gas emission,
but to urge all member states to support the developing countries to mitigate climate change risks and build
climate change resilience. The impact of climate change in Swaziland has led to overall warming and drying,
with a greater frequency and an intensification of droughts and floods, which severely impact sectors of
agriculture and water resources. However, the disaster insurance covers merely 3% of disaster losses in
developing countries, whereas it is 40% in the industrialized countries. Insurance doesnt directly prevent or
reduce the risk of damage or loss; however, the prompt payout provided by insurance in the face of disasters
can reduce considerable indirect effects of damage, such as human suffering and set backs to development.
The first-ever African catastrophe insurance pool has been launched in May 2014 to share risk and cover
losses. Nevertheless, without a stable financial basis, the pool launched by developing countries isnt proved
to be solid enough to sustain itself and expand further to poorer countries. Therefore, Swaziland strongly urges
the developed countries to include developing countries in their catastrophe insurance pool. By practicing this,
the economic growth in the developed countries can be facilitated by the premium paid by the developing
countries, while the share of climate risk could be expanded to the developing countries, which creates a winwin deal that benefits both developed and developing countries.
III. Improving Access to Water and Sanitation for Socioeconomic Development
"When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water."-Benjamin Franklin. Water is an
irreplaceable chemical with unique properties that keep us and other forms of life alive. A person could
survive for several weeks without food, but for only a few days without water. It is together with Sanitation a
Basic Human Right. The world has lost most of its water resources and this of great concern to
socioeconomic development. Every day an average 4,400 people (including 3,900 children younger than age
5) die from waterborne infectious diseases. Water is an economic issue vital for reducing poverty and
producing food and energy. A womens and childrens issue in developing countries because poor women and
girls often are responsible for finding and carrying daily supplies of water. It is a national and global security
issue because of increasing tensions within and between nations over access to limited water resources that
they share and an environmental issue because excessive withdrawal of water from rivers and aquifers results
in dropping water tables and losses of wetlands. In Swaziland, 74.1% of the people have access to improve

water supply and only 57.5% access to sanitation facilities. The United Nations has been working with the
African Union, African Development Bank and the African Water Vision 2025 to bring 100% improved water
to the African population (only 70% has access to improved water) through its inter-agency UN-Water. The
UN has continued to make public and private partnerships at global and national level to improve access to
proper water supply and sanitation facilities in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Swaziland for the past decades have been working with the UNAIDS to install taps to more than 120 schools
around the country in an effort to improve their livelihoods. This project also brought proper sanitation (good
toilets) to more than 20,000 students that use to make long queues to use toilets or sometimes go to the
bushes. My country also signed a $27.7 million project with UNICEF this year to provide sustainable water
and sanitation to the people of the region of Ezulwini. The UNDP and my country should encourage farmers
to irrigate their land at night to avoid loss of limited water though evaporation. Communities should be trained
to harvest rainwater and ways of purifying it (even pure ground water is not 100% pure), to develop their
social an economic conditions. Life straws should be introduced in some poor regions in an effort to improve
peoples lives. Governments should determine where people live or provide good housing to prevent them
from flood prone and poorly sanitized neighborhoods.

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