43rd UN-Water Meeting
UN-Water meetings gather UN-Water Members and Partners to coordinate the UN’s approach to water and sanitation issues.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will host the meeting in Rome, Italy.
UN-Water coordinates the United Nations’ work on water and sanitation. It is comprised of United Nations entities (Members) and international organizations (Partners) working on water and sanitation issues. Their focus is supporting countries to deliver progress on water and sanitation.
UN-Water’s role is to ensure that Members and Partners ‘deliver as one’ in response to water-related challenges.
UN-Water focuses on three core areas of work:
- Informing policy processes and addressing emerging issues
- Supporting monitoring and reporting on water and sanitation
- Building knowledge and inspiring people to take action
UN-Water's activities are guided by the UN System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation, launched in 2024, which aims to accelerate action towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 – “to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” – as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmenthttps://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda.
UN-Water’s Members and Partners have helped place water and sanitation at the heart of milestone agreements, such as the 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, and the 2015 Paris Agreement within the United Nations Convention Framework on Climate Change.
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The description is extracted from unwater.org and sdg.iisd.org
