Article
‘We need to connect the water agenda with the agenda on climate change’
With the world not being on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 6 on water by 2030 Anil Mishra Chief of Hydrological Systems Climate Change and Adaptation within UNESCOs Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme explains in this interview how UNESCO will be contributing to the midterm review from 22 to 24 March 2023 of implementation of the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development to 2028
Key challenge
Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme
Science for a water secure world
Article
Africa Engineering Week - students gain from interacting with leading engineers
The Youth STEM Boot Camp held on the sidelines of the Africa Engineering Week provided great lessons to students from South Africa who interacted with leading engineers
Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme
Water for human settlements
Cities around the world are facing a range of pressures resulting from population growth climate change and deterioration of urban infrastructure systems
News
A milestone for UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme in Asia and the Pacific
The IHP Regional Steering Committee for Asia and the Pacific celebrates its 30th anniversary in Putrajaya Malaysia
Project
Be Resilient BuPuSa Project
A Communityfocused Flood Early Warning System for the BuziPungweSave BuPuSa Transboundary River Basins Project seeking to reduce the community vulnerability by providing an effective flood risk assessment monitoring and early warning system increased capacity and knowledge base and inclusive communication strategy and action plans The intervention will strengthen local capacities in flood monitoring early warning and flood risk management The project is funded by the Austrian Development Agency ADA
World Water Assessment Programme
Call for action “accelerating gender equality in the water domain”
Accelerating gender equality in the water domain with a multistakeholder coalition
World Water Assessment Programme
Addressing gender inequality in the water sector
Increasing gender equality in water is crucial in light of the global commitments in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development An indepth analysis by WWAP and a special working group composed of experts from UN agencies and representatives of Member States water agencies universities and NGOs has shown that the realization of these international commitments is not on track Gender inequalities in the water sector are high and persist at all levels with serious implications for the international communitys efforts to achieve sustainable development
World Water Assessment Programme
Capacity development
WWAP strengthens the policyscience interface and supports decisionmaking on water through targeted capacity reinforcement and knowledge sharing initiatives Trainings focus on water and gender and on the themes of the World Water Development Reports
World Water Assessment Programme
UN World Water Development Report 2020 – Water and Climate Change
This global report aims to help the water community to tackle the challenges of climate change and inform the climate change community about the opportunities that improved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation
UNESCO Beijing
Scientific knowledge for a sustainable future
Idea
UNESCO proposing a global assessment that could be a game-changer for reaching world’s water goals
The world is not on track to reach the sixth Sustainable Development Goal on freshwater SDG6 This delay could undermine our water food and energy security It could compromise our chances of reaching both our climate and biodiversityrelated targets We thus need two things more and better science and a stronger partnership between policymakers and the scientific and engineering communities