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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Assessing environmental flows in Rwanda
24/03/2025
Workshop: environmental flows and disaggregation of the level of water stress by basin and sub-basin - experiences from Senegal River Basin
25/02/2025
Four water basin authority organizations meet in Nouakchott, Mauritania to discuss experiences from assessing environmental flows and from spatial disaggregation of the water stress level elaborated by The Senegal River Basin Development Authority (OMVS) in collaboration with FAO.
Stories of science: our water
11/02/2025
The Italian public television RAI released a documentary on water resources and their use. FAO contributed discussing water stress and the importance of its monitoring as well as understanding the phenomena for the sustainable water and land management.
Progress on change in water-use efficiency. Mid-term status of SDG Indicator 6.4.1 and acceleration needs, with special focus on food security and climate change, 2024
12/2024
[Available in English, French and Spanish.] The global indicator on water-use efficiency tracks to what extent a country’s economic growth is dependent...
Progress on the level of water stress. Mid-term status of SDG Indicator 6.4.2 and acceleration needs, with special focus on food security, 2024
12/2024
[Available in English, French, Spanish.] SDG 6.4.2 tracks the level of pressure of human activities over freshwater resources, indicating the environmental...
Considerations on how SDG target 6.4 is reflected in Voluntary National Reviews (VNR)
07/2024
[Available in English only.] The report examines the status in the voluntary national reviews (VNR) of SDG 6 in general, and the target 6.4 indicators...
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2025
28/3
2025
Training: assessing environmental flows in Rwanda
Kigali (Rwanda), 24/03/2025 - 28/03/2025
FAO, in collaboration with Rwanda Water Resources Board (RWB), organizes a 5-day training in Kigali from 24 to 28 March 2025. The training aims to provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge of the data and tools needed to evaluate environmental flows at basin and local scales, and to strengthen their capacity to identify the best assessment approach, taking into account the i...
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2025
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2025
Workshop: environmental flows and disaggregation of level of water stress by river basin and sub-basin - experiences from Senegal river basin
Nouakchott (Mauritania), 25/02/2025 - 27/02/2025
A multi-country workshop focused on disseminating and sharing knowledge of th...
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2025
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2025
Workshop: environmental flows and disaggregation of level of water stress by river basin and sub-basin - experience of Peru
Lima (Peru), 04/02/2025 - 06/02/2025
A multi-country workshop on environmental flows and the disaggregation of the level of water stress by ...
Assessing the environmental flow requirement for SDG Indicator 6.4.2
08/12/2022
The course focuses specifically on the global approach of FAO to assessment environmental flow requirements for indicator 6.4.2 using the Global Environmental...
SDG Indicator 6.4.1 - Change in water-use efficiency over time
01/08/2019
[This course is available in Arabic,
SDG Indicator 6.4.2 - Level of water stress
01/02/2018
This course provides tools, methods and processes to support countries in monitoring and reporting on SDG Indicator 6.4.2