The Evidence Programme on Sanitation and Hygiene (EPSH) stems from a strategic partnership between WSSCC and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). Formed in 2014, this partnership 3ie works on meeting the growing demand for more and better evidence of which development interventions in low- and middle-income countries work and why. The Evidence Programme on...
An UNU-FLORES project aims to support practitioners, academics and entities in addressing monitoring issues in the field of water quality indicators and indices, ultimately facilitating the achievement of the SDGs. More specifically, the results of this research will help researchers to identify relevant research questions related to the issue of water quality indicators and indices....
When looking at the before mentioned nexus of water, energy, and food security, the question arises which environmental resources have to be managed in an integrated way to achieve the sought integrated and sustainable management. For United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), these environmental resources are: water, soil,...
Water quality in agriculture, in other words water pollution from and to agriculture, is a focus area for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under which different global and national projects and programs are identified. FAO looks at agriculture as a cause and victim of water pollution, and based on that defines...
The UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility (WGF) is a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), initiated in 2005. With an emphasis on governance, as a way to resolve root causes of water-related problems, the WGF supports sustainable development and integrated management of water resources for the achievement...
The Global Platform and the Regional Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction are the main forums at global and regional level for knowledge and practice sharing, coordination, partnership development, and assessment of progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction taking also into account interlinkages with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development....
Globally, child mortality has declined from 12.7 million per year to around 6 million since 1990. However, many challenges remain, particularly for the most disadvantaged children. For example, children from the poorest families are two times as likely to die before the age of five. Many of them due to diarrhoeal diseases caused by poor...
The Swedish Water House (SWH) was established in 2003. It connects Swedish water stakeholders from different sectors with each other and with international processes and discussions. It provides meeting places for innovative thinking on emerging issues, knowledge dissemination and multidisciplinary policy development concerning the global water situation. SWH annually organizes a range of seminars and workshops...
The new scientific decade 2013–2022 of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), entitled “Panta Rhei – Everything Flows”, is dedicated to research activities on change in hydrology and society. The purpose of Panta Rhei is to reach an improved interpretation of the processes governing the water cycle by focusing on their changing dynamics in...
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council Community of Practice on Sanitation and Hygiene in Developing Countries (WSSCC CoP) and the global Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) came together in 2015 to hold a joint three-week thematic discussion on sanitation and hygiene behaviour change programming and sustainability. This thematic discussion was an opportunity to bring together these...