Monday, March 05, 2007

World Water Assessment Program Secretariat to go to Perugia


On 2 February, the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, and the Italian Minister for the Environment, Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, signed an agreement under which Italy will provide a grant of 7.5 million of Euros for the implementation of the third phase of the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) and to transfer its Secretariat to Perugia, Italy.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

As of today, more than 1.5 years later, the WWAP secretariat is yet to move to Perugia.

Anonymous said...

Is it possible to know exactly what the WWAP secretariat will do? What is its mandate?

John Daly said...

The World Water Assessment Program (WWAP), housed in UNESCO, monitors freshwater issues in order to provide recommendations, develop case studies, and inform the decision-making process. It also seeks to enhance assessment capacity at a national level Its primary product, the World Water Development Report (WWDR), is a periodic, comprehensive review providing an authoritative picture of the state of the world’s freshwater resources.

http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/Read more!

John Daly said...

Sorry about that:

http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/