United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO’s Water Science Programme was founded on the International Hydrological Programme (IHP), which has evolved from an internationally coordinated hydrological research programme into an encompassing inter-governmental programme to facilitate research, education and capacity building, and enhance water resources management and governance.
By delivering education and training, providing data and information, developing and testing tools and methodologies IHP contributes directly and/or indirectly to SDG 6 and its targets. Further to its contribution across SDG 6’s targets UNESCO along with UNECE are co-custodian agencies for the indicator 6.5.2 on transboundary water cooperation.
In August 2018, they jointly produced a report presenting the global indicator baseline. http://www.sdg6monitoring.org/indicators/target-65/indicators652/ Considering the entire water cycle, UNESCO IHP also contribute to implement many other goals that are related to water such as those on poverty reduction and equality [1, 10, 16] , agriculture [2], health [3], education [4], gender [5], energy [7], the economy and infrastructure [8 – 12], climate change and resilience [13], and the environment [14, 15]. Furthermore, IHP also provides contribution to achieve SDG 17, by enhancing global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries.
UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) coordinates the work of UN-Water 31 members and 39 partners in the UN World Water Development Report (WWDR), the flagship report on freshwater providing an authoritative picture of the state, use and management of the world’s freshwater resources.
The annual WWDR provides the thematic backbone of the World Water Day and focus on relevant interlinkages between SDG 6 and other SDGs (e.g., water and jobs, nature-based solutions, leaving no one behind, water and climate). WWAP coordinated also the production of the UN-Water SDG 6 Synthesis Report.
In addition, WWAP implements transdisciplinary projects, science-policy dialogues, develop case studies, and enhances capacity at a national level and inform policy and decision-making process.
Gender project
WfWP SC members are members of the working group and act as experts for the UNESCO WWAP gender project.
Permanent Missions briefed on the World Water Day campaign and the World Water Development Report UN-Water 11 February, 2019 This World Water Day, 22nd March, is about tackling the water crisis by addressing the reasons why so many people are being left behind. On 15 February, UN-Water will brief Pe … Read more
Launch of the SDG 6 Public Dialogue Report UN-Water 31 January, 2019 In June 2018, UN-Water released the first SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation. The Sustainable Development Goal 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation reviews the global progress made towards achieving Sust … Read more
World Water Day 2019 – Leaving no one behind UN-Water 17 January, 2019 World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water. This year’s theme, ‘Leaving no one behind’, adapts the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that as … Read more
UNESCO Atlas on the retreat of Andean glaciers and the reduction of glacial waters UN-Water 7 January, 2019 If current trends continue, some of the lower-altitude glaciers of the tropical Andes could lose between 78 and 97% of their volume by the end of the century, reducing the region’s available f … Read more
Summary report from the global workshop on monitoring SDG 6 UN-Water 15 November, 2018 The UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 is organized a global workshop in November in The Hague, the Netherlands, gathering country representatives from across the world as well UN-Water Members an … Read more
