A key outcome of the UN 2023 Water Conference will see the launch of the Water Action Agenda. Hear about the game-changing commitments at the conference which will drive this agenda.

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In many countries, women and girls have the primary responsibility of managing household water supplies and sanitation. Yet due to water scarcity, corruption and high prices for vital period products, many women are paying the high price for a lack of government action on water, sanitation and hygiene. Hear what policies and investments are needed to provide gender quality.

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UN 2023 Water Conference Talkshow.

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Learn more about UNDP'S solutions catalogue offering tested, replicable and up scalable tools, approaches and innovations addressing challenges in ensuring water access, water security, and water quality through real stories from the ground. UNDP water projects improve lives for communities and enable various sectors to overcome water challenges exacerbated by climate change and affecting freshwater ecosystems, to accelerate sustainable development for all, leaving no one behind.

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The world has a number of tools at its disposal to achieve action on Water. In 2016, the Strategic Plan was agreed by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, in 2022, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed on the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. These frameworks will contribute to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028 (22-24 March 2023).

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Water and food security are inextricably connected. Water is a crucial element across humanitarian, development, and peace nexus. Addressing water-related issues lies at the core of responding to emergencies and tackling some of the root causes of current food security challenges. Systemic and multi-sectoral approach to water-related interventions are key to making meaningful and sustainable livelihood improvements and ensuring food security for today and in the future.

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Actor & activist Matt Damon & his water.org co-founder Gary White share a closing message to world leaders and participants of the UN 2023 Water Conference.

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Since the first United Nations Water Conference in Mar del Plata in 1977, although the United Nations system organized a series of global conferences at high level, for a variety of reasons, water has almost disappeared from the international political agenda.

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Our food systems are highly sensitive to water scarcity, water pollution and floods as well as to the continuous changing physical and geopolitical situation. Although water has been recognized as an enabler for transformations of food systems, water is not yet pivotal in the design of our food systems.

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