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An ICStat expert worked as Consultant at the FAO AGLW (Land and Water Development Division) on behalf of UN-Water, the inter-agency mechanism that promotes coherence and coordination of 24 UN Agencies (list at http://www.unwater.org/members.html) actions aimed at the implementation of the agenda defined by the Millennium Declaration and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development as it relates to freshwater and sanitation.
The expert performed a review of water-related monitoring activities within the UN-System and its partners, reviewed concepts and definitions related to water monitoring (including databases and indicators), launched a series of criteria and attributes to frame analyze and classify the different monitoring activities, proposed an innovative federative UN-Water information system. Research results, with newly developed polices and recommendations, included in the report “Water Monitoring, Mapping existing global systems and initiatives” were adopted by FAO and presented at the UN-Water meeting on monitoring (at SIWI, Stockholm, August 2006) where they have been endorsed by UN-Water Task Force on Monitoring.