UNEP-DHI

Focus Areas

Restoring the Shabelle River for Climate Resilient Livelihoods in Somalia

The UNEP-DHI Centre is supporting the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the five-year “RESTORE” initiative by delivering detailed hydrological assessments and decision-support modelling that will guide the rehabilitation and sustainable operation of the Jowhar Off-stream Storage Programme, strengthen flood and drought management across the Shabelle Basin, and build climate-resilient livelihoods for communities in south-central Somalia.

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.

SDG 6.5.1 IWRM Action Planning Course – 2025 edition

Do you want to learn how to design and implement a successful government endorsed IWRM action plan? Sign up to this free online course for a clear, step-by-step guide.

Stakeholder Consultation for Advancing Evidence-Based Hydrological Decision-Making for Peatland Management in the Lac Tele-Lac Tumba Landscape (EN-FR)

Stakeholder Consultations were held in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, between 13-14th of March 2025 by UNEP and UNEP-DHI with a focus to develop a Hydrological Decision Support System (HDSS) for the Lac Tele-Lac Tumba landscape.

New Policy Note on Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Water Resource Management

The 2025 Policy Note on Mainstreaming Gender in Water Resources Management serves as a call to action for practitioners in water management and gender mainstreaming. With only five years left to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality and SDG 6 on water and sanitation, urgent action is needed to scale up efforts and accelerate joint progress.

Global Partnership on Plastic Pollution and Marine Litter (GPML)- digital tools to move towards a future without plastic pollution

The UNEP-DHI Centre is supporting the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in its efforts to curb plastic pollution by developing digital solutions to estimate plastic pollution in rivers and freshwater ecosystems, as well as in facilitating data sharing on plastics across organisations and nations.

New vacancy: part time Student Assistant with a strong communications profile

UNEP-DHI Centre is currently looking for a part time Student Assistant with a strong communications profile. The successful candidate will lead the implementation of our communication plan, working as a core member of the UNEP-DHI team in Denmark. Application deadline is the 22nd of June 2025.

Shaping Global Wetland Monitoring: Lessons from Down Under

As part of the ongoing efforts under the Global Wetland Watch (GWW) initiative, a national consultation and coordination visit across Australia was conducted. The purpose of this trip was to engage directly with key stakeholders involved in wetland monitoring, policy, and conservation.

National planning takes shape in 12 countries for climate-resilient water investments

This year, twelve countries are undertaking multi-stakeholder processes to answer that question as they embark on national action planning, assisted by the SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme, implemented by GWP in coordination with the UNEP-DHI Centre, under the leadership of UNEP.
The goal: to design actionable, investment-ready action plans that mobilise resources from a range of funding sources — including national budgets, multilateral development banks, the private sector, and bilateral funders.

Water management action

Environment action

Climate action