UN-Water Chair

From WaterWiki

The Chair for the three-year period of 2007–09 resides with FAO, after a decision to extend the current term by an additional year. The Office of the Chair is supported by a full-time Adviser to the Chair. The current Vice-Chair is UNECE.

The Chair and Vice-Chair, elected from the membership of UN-Water, serve on a rotational basis. The appointment duration is normally two years. The Chair has specific responsibility for:

• developing, contributing to and overseeing the imple-mentation of the work plan, producing the annual reports and other governance-related documents and following up on administrative issues related to UN-Water activities;
• chairing the biannual UN-Water Senior Programme Manager meetings;
• coordinating certain joint activities, particularly those related to international conferences and processes;
• supporting and managing UN-Water visibility and com-munication, including with the media;
• maintaining and developing contacts with donors and all other member countries that express a particular interest in UN system water-related activities and man-aging the UN-Water multi-donor trust fund; and
• promoting strengthened collaboration among mem-bers and partners as well as with other internation-al organizations and initiatives, such as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB), and actively promoting and representing UN-Water at international meetings and processes.

As and when delegated by the Chair, some of these functions are performed by the Vice-Chair.

This page is based on an extract from the UN-Water Work Programme 2008-2009.