The Unesco IHE building in Delft.
UNESCO-IHE is based in Delft, the Netherlands and is owned by all UNESCO member states. It is established as a UNESCO ‘Category I institute’ jointly by UNESCO and the Government of the Netherlands.
The Institute operates entirely on extrabudgetary funds and as such represents a new and unique model within UNESCO that implicitly requires an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to ensuring its funding. The Institute is the largest water education facility in the world and the only institution in the UN system authorized to confer accredited MSc degrees.
UNESCO-IHE is instrumental to the strengthening of efforts by other universities and research centres in increasing knowledge and skills of professionals working in the water sector. The Member States of UNESCO will have access to the knowledge and services of UNESCO-IHE in human and institutional capacity-building, which is vital to their efforts in the achievement of Millennium Development Goals, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (Agenda 21) and other global water objectives.
UNESCO-IHE's functions are defined as follows:
Since its inception in 1957, IHE – as it was known – has provided postgraduate education to more than 13,500 professionals (engineers and scientists) almost entirely from developing/transition countries, representing 160 countries. It has also graduated more than 50 PhD candidates and executed numerous research and capacity building projects throughout the world.
UNESCO's work in water is built on three pillars. At its heart is the long-standing International Hydrological Programme (IHP), now carried out in collaboration with academic and professional institutions, IHP National Committees, and governments of UNESCO's 190 Member States.
The second pillar is provided by UNESCO-IHE as an integral part of UNESCO, as well as some 10 associated regional and international centres throughout the world.
The third pillar is the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), a joint initiative of 26 bodies of the United Nations system which make up UN-Water. WWAP, a programme of UN-Water hosted by UNESCO, produces the triennial UN World Water Development Report, the first global assessment of its kind on the world's water resources.
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UNESCO-CEPES was established 1972 at Bucharest, Romania, as a de-centralized office for the European Centre for Higher Education. The centre promotes international cooperation in the sphere of higher education and also serves Canada, the USA and Israel. Higher Education in Europe, a scholarly publication focusing on major problems and trends in higher education, is the official journal of UNESCO-CEPES. The CEPES headquarters is in the Kretzulescu Palace in Bucharest.
The UNESCO Courier is a monthly online magazine published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO. The magazine is written journalistically and each issue looks into a single subject from different angles.
The original UNESCO Courier was a monthly printed magazine published between 1947 to 2002. It was published in more than thirty languages including braille.
The printed UNESCO Courier enjoyed admiration of its loyal readers for decades, for its high journalistic standards and open-minded approach toward universal issues of literacy, human rights, environment, culture, science and arts.