The instruction manual for the new water stress plugin for the Water Evaluation and Planning system (WEAP) is now available in English, French and Spanish. The plugin was developed by FAO in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute's U.S. Center (SEI) for the calculation of the S...

The finalization workshop of the Gender contextualization of SDG 6 in Senegal was held in Dakar from Monday 22 to Wednesday 24 April. The workshop was organized by FAO on behalf of all SDG 6 custodian agencies –members of the Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6– in collaboration wi...

Over six days, representatives of countries sharing the Senegal river basin (Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal) will be meeting at the training workshop in Conakry organized by the FAO IMI-SDG6 team and the Senegal River Basin Development Authority (OMVS). The aim of the workshop is t...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute's U.S. Center (SEI), had developed a new water stress plugin for Water Evaluation and Planning system (WEAP) for the calculation of the SDG indicator 6.4.2 <...

From 5 to 7 December, agricultural and statistical experts from national institutions of Mauritania will participate in the workshop “Evaluation and monitoring of the SDG indicator 6.4.2 (level of water stress) at national and basin level”.

The workshop is organized by the Integrated Mo...

On the 14 and 16 November, the Integrated Monitoring Initiative for Sustainable Development Goal 6 (IMI-SDG6) coordinated by UN-Water held a consultation webinars for promoting gender contextualization of the SDG 6 global indicators. IMI-SDG6 has establishes a gender working group and has developed and tested draft methodological approaches and gender-relevant indicators for contextualizing and monitoring gender aspects related to the SDG 6 global indicators. This is in the form of an Assessment framework. The draft tools within this framework were presented in the webinars, along with the experiences gained from the pilot testing done to date by specific countries.

From 23 to 26 May, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Water and Sanitation of Senegal organized the national workshop on Gender contextualization of SDG 6 "Promoting an inclusive and gender-sensitive analysis of water and sanitation data" in M...

[available in English - French - Spanish] The “Assessing the environmental flow requirement for SDG Indicator 6.4.2 (Level of water stress)" e-learning course is designed primarily for staff in national agencies tasked with the monitoring of SDG indicator 6.4.2 and the sustainable management of water and other natural resources. Water professionals, eco-biologists and other professionals interested in assessing water flows needed to maintain aquatic ecosystem health and resilience are encouraged to take the course too. After the course, participants will be able to describe why securing environmental water requirements are essential to meet SDG target 6.4 and thereby maintain aquatic ecosystem health and resilience, explain the key aspects of hydrological and ecological science underlying e-flows, including the role of groundwater in the formation of environmental flows, and compare different methodologies for the assessment of e-flow requirements. In addition, they will be able to evaluate which measures to implement e-flows are most suited to each national situation.