Water is the source of life. That is why water-related targets are a significant part of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and essential for meeting many of the SDGs. Ensuring countries get the support to meet these goals is a priority for agencies like the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which works closely with the UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment to help countries track and accelerate progress towards water-related SDGs.

 

When countries adopted the SDGs, they committed to regularly reporting data to the UN to track progress and ensure accountability, however, many of them struggled to take these ambitious new goals on board.

 

Providing countries with the support they need to achieve these goals is a priority for UN agencies like UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme, which work closely with DHI. Together, we have formed a partnership dedicated to improving the management, development and use of freshwater resources from the local to the global level. The UNEP-DHI Centre has attained global recognition for its work in promoting sustainable water resources management and supporting the water-related SDGs. This work included the SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme, which assists governments to accelerate sustainable water management implementation by identifying challenges, developing action plans and implementing solutions for measurable progress towards water-related SDG targets.