The Forum will bring:

• 140 ministerial delegations
• More than 180 countries represented
• Over 800 speakers
• 25,000 expected participants
• Over 400 hours of discussions and debates
• Over 250 sessions and panels and about 100 Grassroots & Citizenship events
• Regional Trialogues organized among Ministers, Parliamentarians and Local/Regional Authorities
• High Level Roundtables

As in previous World Water Fora, UNESCO-IHE will actively participate in convening and co-convening sessions, exhibiting within the UNESCO stand at the UN Water pavilion and hold alumni and staff gatherings.

UNESCO-IHE is involved in the following sessions:

• Contribute to cooperation and peace through water - Double by 2020, the training in transboundary water management and conflict resolution (PFA1.5.8 - Pieter vd Zaag).
• Contribute to food security by optimal use of water - Increase sustainably productivity and lower costs of water management in such a way that there is food security at affordable prices for all (PFA2.2.3 - Bart Schultz (ICID), Krishna Prasad, Abraham Mehari Haile, Macarena Garcia Johns).
• CS3 - Conditions for Success - Enabling Environments - Overall coordination (Andras Szollosi-Nagy)
• CS3.1 - Enabling Environments - Delivery of research for water governance, effective science policy interface (Uta Wehn de Montalvo)
• CS3.4 - Enabling Environments - Competency profile for water education & global integrated water education network (Stefan Uhlenbrook)
• CS3.5 - Enabling Environments - Effective Public Awareness Raising Networks of Professionals (Alida Pham).
• Session on the Water Footprint Network, IGRAC activities and business opportunities with Dutch counterparts (Joop de Schutter)
• Sessions on the Nile Basin and MENA regions (Jan Luijendijk)

Other activities

• Joint UNESCO stand at the UN Water Pavilion (booth number 3.21, Alida Pham and Maria Laura Sorrentino)
• Alumni gathering - to be confirmed on which day - (Maria Laura Sorrentino)

Read more at the UNESCO-IHE WWF6 website