The Integrated Monitoring Initiative for Sustainable Development Goal 6 (IMI-SDG6) is a partnership between eight UN agencies and is coordinated by UN-Water. It was established at the beginning of the 2030 Agenda period, to accelerate the achievement of SDG 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
FAO is one of the initiative’s partners and the custodian agency responsible for monitoring SDG target 6.4 that aims at “substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity by 2030”.
IMI-SDG6 supports countries to collect, analyze and report SDG 6 data, and assists policy and decision-makers to use this data for better policy-decisions and investments.
To this ends, the initiative creates guides, organizes trainings, develops methodology for contextualized and disaggregated data and information.
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New publications: Advancing water stress assessment in Peru’s river basins
17/02/2026
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with Peru’s National Water Authority (ANA), has released the second of two reports presenting the results of pilot studies conducted in the Huallaga and Pisco river basins. The work provides insights into ...
Water stress in the Pisco river basin: disaggregation of SDG 6.4.2 - new case study available
28/11/2025
The report proposes a comprehensive assessment of water stress in the Pisco river basin using an integrated hydrological model developed using WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) system. This initiative has been carried out in collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the National Water Authority (ANA) of Peru, and is part of the disaggregated monitoring of SDG indicator 6.4.2: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources, taking into account environmental flow requirements.
Ghana: Regional workshop on Advancing SDG 6.4 in Africa
12/11/2025
An interactive multi-stakeholder workshop on monitoring and reporting indicators under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 6.4 (water use and scarcity) in Africa is taking place in Akosombo, Ghana, from 10 to 14 November 2025. The workshop is organized by the Food and Agri...
Pilot study on the calculation of indicator 6.4.2 of Sustainable Development Goal 6 in the Huallaga river basin
02/2026
[Available in Spanish only] The report presents a comprehensive assessment of water stress in the Huallaga river basin by applying an integrated hydrological...
Pilot study on the calculation of indicator 6.4.2 of Sustainable Development Goal 6 in the Pisco river basin
11/2025
[Available in Spanish only] The report proposes a comprehensive assessment of water stress in the Pisco river basin using an integrated hydrological...
The disaggregation of the level of water stress by river basin and sub-basin: the case of the Senegal river basin
09/2025
[Available in French only.] The report provides an in-depth assessment of water stress in the Senegal river basin using an integrated hydrological model...
Assessing the environmental flow requirement for SDG Indicator 6.4.2
08/12/2022
[Available in English, French and Spanish.] The course focuses specifically on the global approach of FAO to assessing environmental flow requirements...
SDG Indicator 6.4.1 - Change in water-use efficiency over time
01/08/2019
[Available in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.] The course provides guidance on the rationale and the main characteristics...
SDG Indicator 6.4.2 - Level of water stress
01/02/2018
[Available in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.] This course provides tools, methods and processes to support countries in monitoring...
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Advancing SDG 6.4 in Africa: regional workshop on water resource monitoring for policy impact
Akosombo (Ghana), 10/11/2025 - 14/11/2025
An interactive multi-stakeholder workshop on monitoring and reporting indicators under SDG Target 6.4 (water use and scarcity) in Africa will take place in Ghana from 10 to 14 November 2025. Organised by FAO, the regional event will be coordinated by AQUASTAT in collaboration with the IMI-SDG6. The workshop aims to review progress in monitoring and reporting on SDG 6.4 indicators a...