The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education is an international institute for water education that was established in 2003. UNESCO-IHE continues the work that was started in 1957 when IHE first offered a postgraduate diploma course in hydraulic engineering to practicing professionals from deve...
Innovative learning at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education equips professionals with the research, managerial and technical skills needed to deal with challenges in the fields of water, the environment and infrastructure in their countries.
Research is a vital component of UNESCO-IHE’s mission. The Institute’s research activities focus on and contribute to the knowledge base concerning the water environment, and therefore complement its other major activities – education and capacity building.
UNESCO-IHE is actively engaged in both long- and short-term international cooperation projects, aiming at implementing the water policies of international agencies (e.g. UNESCO, UNEP, the European Commission, the World Bank), bilateral donors (e.g. DGIS, SIDA) and national governments (e.g. Peo...
UNESCO-IHE confers a vital role to partnerships. They add value to many of the Institute’s activities and are essential in linking global knowledge to local sector agendas, and for improving North–South and South–South collaboration.
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The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a public domain model actively supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory in Temple, Texas, USA. SWAT is a distributed model designed to simulate water, nutrient and pesticide transport at a catchment scale on a daily time step.It represents hydrology by interception, evapotranspiration, surface runoff, soil percolation, lateral flow and groundwater flow and river routing processes.The...
The SSI programme is an applied research initiative which started in January 2004, and is funded by the Swedish and Dutch governments through SIDA, WOTRO, DGIS and by UNESCO-IHE and IWMI.
A multi disciplinary initiative aiming at improving the livelihood of rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, the SSI programme will study the potential of indigenous and exogenous water system innovations in smallholder farms for improved land and water productivity.
It will investigate aspects s...
