Regional Level Coordination
The United Nations organizes its Members States into five regions: Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Europe, and Others. Coordination at the regional level is vital to meeting the specific water-related challenges faced by the countries in each of these areas.
The Expert Group on Regional Level Coordination
The Expert Group on Regional Level Coordination – established by UN-Water in 2019 – aims to provide a platform for discussing and pursuing regional-level coordination and collaboration towards SDG 6 and relevant related global policy frameworks.
Participants exchange regional information, knowledge, and experience and coordinate regional-level activities on the water, sanitation, and water-related issues that are being jointly pursued by UN-Water Members and Partners.
The Group also aims to provide a route through which UN-Water can interact with regional-level collaborative arrangements established by the United Nations Secretariat.
![Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, Chief Imam, All India Imam Organization speaks to a panellist at the launch of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA), at UNICEF House. With them on the dais are: (left-right) Sister Karen Schneider, Religious Sister of Mercy and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University; Alexandra V. Destin Pierre, World Youth Parliament for Water, Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean; Swami Chidanand Saraswati, President and Spiritual Head of Parmarth Niketan Ashram and GIWA co-founder; Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, President and Founder, Jacob Soetendorp Institute for Human Values and GIWA co-founder; and youth activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. On 25 September 2013 at UNICEF House, the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA), the first global interfaith initiative to promote safe water, sanitation and hygiene, was launched. The alliance brings together faith-based organizations in common pursuit of a water-secure world – one in which all children may enjoy their right to safe drinking water and to adequate sanitation.](/sites/default/files/2022-08/uni150143.jpg)
Functions of the Group
The Group performs many functions, including providing an open platform for information exchange, reporting to UN-Water on the preparation of regional forums, and supporting collaboration and coordination of key activities. Find out more in the Workplan and Budget of the UN-Water Expert Group.
Contact Us
Get in touch to learn more: unwater@un.org
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About
Membership is open to representatives from all UN-Water Members and Partners. The Expert Group is co-ordinated by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Regional Consultation Reports
- ECLAC: Report on the Latin American and Caribbean regional process to accelerate the achievement of SDG 6
- Outcome document from the Arab Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Water Action Decade
- Outcome document from the Pan-European Regional Preparatory Meeting for the UN 2023 Water Conference
- Mid-Term Review of the UN Water Action Decade: Input from the Asia Pacific Consultation
- African Regional Consultations on the Mid-Term Review of the “International Water Decade of Action 2018-2028, TBC after 13-14 June 2022