OUR WORK INCLUDES

  • Promoting integrated water resources management (IWRM) at national, international and cross-national levels
  • Supporting climate change resilience through considered water resources development, management and use
  • Enhancing the management of water in the coastal zone through integrated land and water management
  • Developing ecosystems based management of freshwater resources through a range of approaches and tools

WHO WE ARE

The UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment is a United Nations Environment Programme centre of expertise. The Centre was established in 2001 and is hosted by DHIgroup headquarters in Denmark. The Center is supported by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and dedicated to improving the management of freshwater resources from the local to the global level.
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WHAT IS HAPPENING?

The UNEP-DHI Centre is working with UNEP to contribute to the UNCED Rio+20 meeting with a "Global Assessment of the Management, Development and Use of Water Resources", based on an survey in 120+ countries. The action-oriented report developed for UN-Water will be accompanied by a proposal for a future global reporting framework. Read more.

Transboundary Reports on Water Resource Management
The Centre has recently launched two publications on transboundary water resources management. The first is a review of ecosystems approaches in transboundary basins and was prepared in close collaboration with IISD (Read here). The second publication is a report based on a survey of IWRM practices and includes a series of recommendations for strengthening transboundary river basin organizations (Read here).

Ecosystems for Water and Food Security
The Centre was a main contributing author on the recent joint UNEP and IWMI publications on ecosystems for water and food security. Synthesis Report: "An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water and Food Security", Background Document: "Ecosystems for Water and Food Security".