The main purpose of UN-Water is to provide support to Member States in their efforts towards achieving goals, targets and actions agreed by the international community, particularly those contained in the Millennium Development Goals and the Johannesburg Program of Implementation. UN-Water is in the process of identifying strategic issues and priorities for system-wide action. It has identified eleven themes on which the representatives of UN-Water are in the process of forming common positions.
Common positions UN-Water on strategic issues (Under construction)
Pollution, and in particular arsenic contamination
Transboundary water issues
Integrated water resources management
Sanitation Water scarcity (Joint programme of work)
Capacity building
Financing water
Valuing water Risks related to extreme water-related events
Water and women
Sub-Saharan Africa
The main purpose of UN-Water is to provide support to Member States in their efforts towards achieving goals, targets and actions agreed by the international community, particularly those contained in the Millennium Development Goals and the Johannesburg Program of Implementation. UN-Water is in the process of identifying strategic issues and priorities for system-wide action. It has identified eleven themes on which the representatives of UN-Water are in the process of forming common positions.