Consider the following statements regarding World Toilet Organization :
- 1.It is one of the agencies of the United Nations.
- 2.World Toilet Summit, World Toilet Day and World Toilet College are the initiatives of this organization, to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis.
- 3.The main focus of its function is to grant funds to the least developed countries and developing countries to achieve the end of open defecation.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
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Answer: A. Statement 1 is wrong: the World Toilet Organization is a global non-profit founded in Singapore in 2001 by Jack Sim, not a UN agency. Statement 2 is correct: it started the World Toilet Summit, World Toilet Day and World Toilet College. Statement 3 is wrong: it is an advocacy and training body, not a funding agency for poor countries. So 2 only.
Watch for: World Toilet Day is now a UN observance, which makes students think the organisation itself is part of the UN.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Wrong because WTO does not mainly give grants to countries.
- C. Wrong because the World Toilet Organization is not a UN agency.
- D. Wrong because funding countries is not its main function.
Source to check: World Toilet Organization official website (worldtoilet.org, 'About us'); UN General Assembly resolution 67/291 (2013) on World Toilet Day
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