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Title
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Description
The process to establish the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education was concluded by a decision of the 31st General Conference of UNESCO in November 2001. On 18 March 2003, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, representatives of the Netherlands Government, of the former national structure - the IHE Delft - and of its funding arm, the Foundation, joined the UNESCO DG, Koichiro Matsuura and other senior Secretariat officials to put their signatures to a set of agreements by which the newly-created UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE) will come into operation.
UNESCO-IHE is instrumental to the strengthening of efforts by other universities and research centres in increasing knowledge and skills of professionals working in the water sector. The 190 Member States of UNESCO will have access to the knowledge and services of UNESCO-IHE in human and institutional capacity-building, which is vital to their efforts in the achievement of Millennium Development Goals, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and other global water objectives.
UNESCO-IHE visions a world in which people manage their water and environmental resources in a sustainable manner, and in which all sectors of society, particularly the poor, can enjoy the benefits of basic services.
