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 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?

New report launched! 2012 Status Report on the Application of Integrated Approaches to Water Resources Management in Africa has been launched on 14th May 2012 at the opening session of Africa Water Week 2012, Egypt. The ground-breaking, comprehensive report, produced at the request of AMCOW, is available in both English and French.

Global Water Partnership (GWP) is conducting a survey on the use of the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) ToolBox with a view to carrying out further improvements. As a ToolBox Partner, the UNEP-DHI Centre fully supports this initiative and encourages you use a couple of minutes to provide some input by April 30th 2011.


Status Report on Integrated Approaches to Water Resources Management is now being prepared for printing. It presents key findings of the most comprehensive global survey to-date with more than 130 countries responding to a questionnaire developed by UN-Water on behalf of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. The report recommends 2 targets for inclusion in the RIO+20 outcome document. Advance copies available upon request. Read more.

 
The Centre is co-developing an online serious game, Aqua Republica. The game provides a fun learning platform for building capacity in water management and sustainable development. Players gain experience on challenges and decision-making in a realistic simplification of transboundary river basins. A demo presentation is available on request, and more information is available here.

 
TWAP reports released! The ‘design phase’ of the Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme is complete (download reports here), with project preparation under way for the implementation phase, pending approval from the Global Environment Facility. The Centre is the lead coordinating institution for the river basins component.