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Global Partnership for Water and Development

Working in partnership on education and training, research and capacity development is a key approach of UNESCO-IHE. This approach has considerably increased the Institute’s and its partners’ impact at the global and local levels, and has been strongly supported by the DGIS UNESCO-IHE Programmatic Cooperation (DUPC). A new phase of this cooperation was approved in December 2015. The goal of the DUPC2 programme, is to provide tangible contributions in solving water and development challenges worldwide, by equipping people and organisations through sustained and strengthened partnerships in southern and transition countries.

Call information

Call for Education and Training Partnership proposals and Call for Outreach products from research proposals

Demonstrating impact

In this new phase of the partnership programme we want to demonstrate more tangible impacts on the ground. Sustained and strengthened partnerships, engaging in new partnerships including civil society, NGO's, private sector and government, supporting innovation, attention to cohesion and synergy between project activities, and strong communication to various audiences, are some of the strategies through which we want to accomplish this. 

Programme components

DUPC2's goal is facilitated by four inter-related programme components:

  • Education and Training
  • Research and Innovation
  • Knowledge sharing and Networks
  • Management and Learning

Collectively, the activities within these components, work towards improving sustainable partnerships with and between developing and transition country institutions. All activities under DUPC2 will be recognizable by the UNESCO-IHE Global Partnership logo, which will be displayed on all the programme's outputs. 

Focus themes and countries

DUPC2 focuses on the following themes:

  • Efficient water management, particularly in the agricultural sector
  • Improved catchment area management and safe deltas
  • Access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation
  • Water diplomacy

Cross-cutting themes

  • Water scarcity and water related problems related to the refugee crisis in the Middle East
  • Water governance
  • Gender/inclusiveness
  • Climate change

Please find more information on each theme here.

Activities are open to selected countries and regions (see for more details the information pack for partners on the right). 

Call information and downloads

DUPC2 2016 Call for Education and Training Partnership proposals

DUPC2 2016 Call for Outreach products from research proposals

DUPC2 concept note template

Download the Global Partnership logo here

DUPC Committee members

Wim Douven, overall coordinator of the programme, UNESCO-IHE  

Carolien Jaspers, Liaison Officer EU Relations, UNESCO-IHE

Carlos M. Madera, Associate Professor Sanitary Engineering, Universidad del Valle, Colombia

Chris Zevenbergen, Professor of Flood Resilience of Urban Systems, UNESCO-IHE

Jean-Marie Kileshye Onema, WaterNet manager, Southern Africa

Martin Mulenga, Senior Lecturer in Sanitation/ Sanitary Engineering, UNESCO-IHE

Michelle Kooy, Senior Lecturer in Water Governance, UNESCO-IHE

Mita Kusumaningrum, DUPC programme support, UNESCO-IHE

Pham Hong Nga, Head of International Cooperation Office/Lecturer, Thuyloi University (former HWRU), Vietnam

Contact us

In case of questions or if you want to discuss any item, feel free to contact the DUPC Committee via dupc@unesco-ihe.org.