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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.
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.
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.
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.
The 2024 global progress report gives an overview of the status of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) around the world as of 2023. Findings show global progress towards IWRM implementation has increased from 49% in 2017 to 57% in 2023. But the world is not on track to reach the 2030 target and will not achieve sustainable water management until at least 2049 – 25 years from now. Read the full report to learn more!
The Global Wetland Watch supports countries to protect and restore the world’s wetland ecosystems by utilizing both satellite and in-situ data, and provide high resolution global map layers on wetlands. Facilitated by the UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment, DHI will take the lead in the machine learning and system development, while UNEP will provide strategic leadership and secure political and institutional engagement from governments.
UNEP-DHI is providing technical assistance to the Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin (REWarD) project in 2023-2026. Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through UNEP and IUCN, the five-year project is being implemented by the Volta Basin Authority (VBA) and the Global Water Partnership-West Africa (GWP-WA) between 2023-2028.
Data from the third round of global reporting on SDG indicator 6.5.1 are now live on the IWRM Data Portal. The portal contains all country reports, summaries, and the full global dataset. Across three reporting cycles, 191 countries have submitted data on SDG 6.5.1, with 137 of these reporting in all three rounds.
The Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus policy note is the latest collaboration between UNEP-DHI and UNCEP-CCC! It’s aim is to give practical information about the WEFE nexus and to inform policy makers of potential implementation pathways.
The Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Kakhovka Dam Breach, carried out by UNEP at the request of the Ukrainian Government, uses UNEP-DHI’s expertise in modelling to assess the hydrological impacts.
In collaboration with UNEP and FAO, UNEP-DHI is implementing a project aimed at protecting biodiversity and key ecosystem functions related to carbon storage and water resources in the Congo Basin Peatlands for the next fours years. The project is funded by the German International Climate Initiative (IKI).
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