In 2005, the Thirteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-13) requested that UN-Water follow up on decisions related to water and sanitation at two specific occasions: in 2008 and in 2012.

At the CSD-16, in 2008, UN-Water delivered a Status Report on Integrated Water Resources Management and Water Efficiency Plans based on surveys. For the review in 2012, UN-Water asked the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, to lead the preparation of a Status Report: 'The Application of Integrated Approaches to Development, Management and Use of Water Resources'. To oversee the process, a Task Force was established and the preparation of the report carried out by a core team including the UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment (UDC), the UNDP Water Governance Unit and Global Water Partnership (GWP).

Activities

The Task Force has carried out the following activities:

• Setting up the organization and getting consensus on the scope, methodology and process among partners and stakeholders;
• Developing a survey instrument including a general questionnaire rolled out to all countries and an in-depth survey applied in selected developing countries;
• Developing a contact database and establishing a help-desk to facilitate the response process;
• Preparing the report and submitting it to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development;
• Publishing the report and disseminating the outputs;
• Feeding the findings from the survey into global and regional meetings leading up to the Rio+20 Summit;
• Proposing a regular monitoring and reporting framework based on the survey instrument.

Coordinating Organizations

UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment (UDC)
UNDP Water Governance Unit
Global Water Partnership (GWP)

Contacts

Thomas Chiramba UNEP
Thomas.chiramba@unep.org

Members

UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA)
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