2024 Progress Report on the Implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management in the Arab Region: Midterm Status of Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 6.5.1 - Softcover

United Nations Economic And Social Commission For Western Asia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9211577020 ISBN 13: 9789211577020

Publisher: United Nations, 2025

Synopsis

As the impacts of climate change on the Arab region intensify and socioeconomic and political challenges – including conflict – persist, efforts to secure access to safe and reliable water supplies are of primary importance. In this context, this document serves as the third progress report on Sustainable Development Goal indicator 6.5.1 on the implementation of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in the Arab region, highlighting challenges and opportunities to advance implementation. While the average IWRM implementation level for the Arab region is on par with global progress, it is marked by great disparity between the high-income countries and the least developed and conflict- and crisis-affected countries of the region. Overall, Arab countries have scored a slight increase in IWRM implementation compared to the 2020 scores, but progress is decelerating. Closing the achievement gap between high- and low-income and crisis-impacted countries in the region is crucial to IWRM implementation, as well to the achievement of the goals laid out in the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028.

Edition details

• Publisher: United Nations
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9211577020
• ISBN 13: 9789211577020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76