Overview
The World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) was founded in 2000, to produce a UN system-wide periodic global overview of the status in terms of quantity and quality, use and management of freshwater resources. The programme’s main objective is to equip water managers and policy and decision-makers across Member States with knowledge, tools, and skills necessary to formulate and implement sustainable water policies. It does so mainly through the yearly publication of the UN World Water Development Report - a report jointly drafted with several UN agencies that belong to the UN Water mechanism - and a Gender Disaggregated Water Data Toolkit designed in 2019 which proposes a specific methodology to enhance gender-responsive water policies. The WWAP Secretariat has further developed trainings to enhance the use of both tools.