UNEP DHI Partnership – Centre on Water and Environment
We have the unique ability to apply DHI’s leading technologies, to support UNEP’s mandate and policy leadership, and work with countries to improve their water management for sustainable development.
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Water management action

Supporting implementation of integrated water resources management (IWRM) at all levels and assisting countries towards achievement of SDG 6 targets.

Environment action

Policy advice, science-based assessments, and decision-support tools to improve understanding of the value of freshwater ecosystems, and their management under changing conditions.

Climate action

Building climate resilience in countries through design and implementation of advanced science-based tools for effective planning and management of floods, droughts and water scarcity.

Focus Areas

Free online course on Integrated Drought Management (EN/FR) – 2025 edition

In partnership with Integrated Drought Management Programme, Cap-Net UNDP, WMO, GWP, and the Volta Flood and Drought Management project, UNEP-DHI developed an online course on Integrated Drought Management: Monitoring and Early Warning. It is designed to improve understanding of proactive integrated drought management and introduces available tools for drought monitoring and forecasting.

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Generation Restoration: Urban Nature-based Solutions Tool 

The UNEP-DHI Centre is developing an online tool to support upscaling of urban Nature based Solutions (NBS) climate solutions, under UNEP’s Generation Restoration initiative (2023-2025). The Urban NBS Tool will support the identification and assessment of key environmental data in the project cities, with the goal to better understand climate risks and NBS potential to address these risks within the pilot cities.

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News

Global Wetland Watch – The crucial role of Wetlands in South Africa

The Global Wetland Watch (GWW) has partnered with selected pilot countries to ensure GWW outcomes are designed to serve national needs. South Africa is one of these pilot countries that has joined the discussion and co-development with the GWW team. As part of this in-country engagement, the GWW team has just returned from a 10-day mission to South Africa to conduct workshops and field trips to understand national wetland challenges and come up with new solutions to manage and restore wetlands globally.

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