UN-Water Chair

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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 Ma