UNESCO IHP Chair / SA Focal Point
Department Water Affairs & Forestry
Private Bag x313, Pretoria, 0001
SOUTH AFRICA
Phone: +27 12 336 8787
Fax: +27 12 3312565
Email: Natcom@dwaf.gov.za
            xkj@dwaf.gov.za

IHP Secretariat
Water Research Commission
Director,
Water Resource Management
Private Bag x10, Gezina
Pretoria, 0001
SOUTH AFRICA
Phone: +27 12 3300 340
Fax: +27 12 3300 340

View the draft TERMS OF REFERENCE for the South African National Committee for the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP).

About Us

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. For more information on UNESCO see: http://portal.unesco.org

UNESCO's 8 principal programme activities are carried out by the following:

Information for All Programme (IFAP) ; Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) ; International Bioethics Committee (IBC) ; International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) ; International Hydrological Programme (IHP) ; International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) ; Management of Social Transformation Programme (MOST) ; Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB)

International Hydrological Programme (IHP)

IHP is UNESCO's international scientific cooperative programme in water research, water resources management, education and capacity-building, and the only broadly-based science programme of the UN system in this area.

Governance (a simplified schematic)