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The Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (FRIEND-Water) is a UNESCO Flagship Initiative within the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) which seeks to facilitate, promote and foster collaborations across borders between scientists (hydrologists and related disciplines) to conduct studies on shared river basins.

This report summarizes the FRIEND-Water programme activities developed in the period of 2014-2022, despite the challenges posed: securing financial support and the Covid-19 pandemic. FRIEND-Water remained active in many regions: from the Global FRIEND-Water conference in Montpellier in 2014, until the Beijing Global FRIEND-Water conference in 2018 and the arrival of the new regional coor-dinators in 2019, several meetings, workshops, training sessions and conferences were organized, welcoming participants from more than 150 countries.

FRIEND-Water has shown to be a very solid and active initiative. This was confirmed by the UNESCO-IHP evaluation in 2018, the resolution made by the UNESCO-IHP Intergovernmental Council on April 2022 on this Flagship initiative, and the multiple scheduled events for 2021 and 2022. The support that FRIEND-Water receives from Member States has been essential for its several achievements.