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This UN-wide programme seeks to develop the tools and skills needed to achieve a better understanding of those basic processes, management practices and policies that will help improve the supply and quality of global freshwater resources.
The United Nations system is complex. It is not easy to explain what each agency and programme does, since each one has its own priorities and procedures. Nevertheless, all of the organizations listed below have endorsed the goals of the World Water Assessment Programme and the publication of the biennial World Water Development Report. Under this common banner they have agreed to work together - sharing information, knowledge and know-how - to improve our understanding of the policies and practices that encourage sustainable use of water resources. To help you find your way through this complex worldwide effort, we have tried to summarize some of the main water-related activities of each partner agency, as well as the list of the WWAP challenges to which it is most closely allied. |
 United Nations Funds and Programmes
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'to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential' |
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'to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build capacity to design and carry out development programmes, giving first priority to poverty eradication' |
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Global Water Partnership (GWP)Funded by UNDP, it provides information and links to ongoing events and relevant actors in Integrated Water Resources Management.
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'to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enablishing nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations' |
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'to lead and coordinate international action for the worldwide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems' |
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'to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agriculture productivity and the condition of rural populations' |
- Water resources, development and management for agriculture : A focus on sustainable use and conservation of water in agriculture. It assesses water resources and monitors agricultural use; assists in water policy formulation and promotes irrigated agriculture, efficient water use and mitigation of adverse environmental effects through management innovations, modernization and institutional reforms.
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Dialogue on Water, Food and Environment
A joint initiative with 10 international actors in the fields of water resources management, water resources research, environmental conservation and health. | |
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'to serve as the world's central inter-governmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field'
Isotope Hydrology SectionThe International Atomic Energy Agency aims to improve the availability and use of hydrological information through the application of isotope techniques. The Agency's programme in water resources supplements global efforts for sustainable resource management by assisting its Member States in hydrolgoical data gathering and analysis, such as the origin, occurrence, and replenishment of water resources, training and capacity building, information exchange, and technical cooperation.
World Water Day 2002IAEA was the UN agency for the 2002 celebration of World Water Day, under the theme 'Water for Development' |
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'to reduce poverty and improve living standards through sustainable growth and investment in people' |
Includes the following sections: Water supply and sanitation, Dams and reservoirs, Irrigation and Drainage, Groundwater, River basin management, Transboundary water management, Water and environment, Water economics.
(a joint initiative with UNEP and UNDP)
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Water and Sanitation ProgramInternational partnership of the world's leading development agencies concerned with water and sanitation services for the poor, administered by the World Bank.
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"eradicating poverty and hunger in developing countries, specifically in rural areas" |
- Gender issuesIFAD's evolving approaches to gender and household food security.
- Household Food Security and NutritionProject activities designed to guarantee household food security through improving smallholder farmers' access to agricultural inputs, water resources, irrigation, markets and storage facilities.
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Stories from the fieldDevelopment projects in rural areas all around the world, including creation and maintenance of water supply schemes, health education, and agricultural management. |
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'to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication' |
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'to improve the living conditions of people and promote global prosperity through offering tailor-made solutions for the sustainable industrial development of developing countries and countries in transition'
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Sanitation Connection
A world wide web-based resource intended to facilitate access to information on sanitation, administered by the WHO. | |
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'to facilite international cooperation in the establishment of networks of stations for making meterorological, hydrological and other observations; to promote the rapid exchange of information' |
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Other UN Entities |
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'to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all'
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A Programme managed by UN-HABITAT with funding from the Asian Development Bank.
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'to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations and its member states' |
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Secretariat for the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), which is responsible for follow-up to Agenda 21 of The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED 1992) |
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United Nations Regional Commissions |
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- Secretariats of United Nations Conventions and Decades
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'to combat desertification and poverty' |
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'to promote nature and human well-being' |
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'to protect the climate system for present and future generations' |
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'to enable all societies to become resilient to the effects of natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters, in order to reduce human, economic and social losses' |
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