Operational Goals
- To strengthen the regional policies aimed at the sustainable development of water resources;
- To consolidate the partnership with UNESCO-IHE and the UNESCO’s category II centers as a way to produce and exchange knowledge as well as take part in the programs of IHP (International Hydrological Program), WWAP (World Water Assessment Program) and UNESCO;
- To help establish a network between the UNESCO’s category II centers so they can work as partners;
- To develop its scientific program based on the regional reality and pursuant to the guidelines established in the International Hydrological Program;
- To build a network between other Brazilian and regional institutions;
- To train regional actors as well as actors from the countries where it may operate about water issues;
- To promote and carry out actions on environmental education aimed at the sustainable development within the regions it may operate;
- To become a center of excellence in water resources for Latin America and Portuguese-speaking countries.
Institutional Competences
I – to create and guarantee standards for capacity building and development of human resources, research and provision of services, relating to surface and groundwater;
II – to promote and develop research, studies and events in its sphere of action;
III – to participate in the process of creating and supervising a network of public and private law organizations and institutions legally constituted to act in the field of surface and groundwater, including mineral and drinking water, with due observance of applicable legislation;
IV – to promote and cooperate in the selection and training of professionals, by offering fully on-site teaching, semi-on-site tuition, distance learning and further education courses as well as organizing seminars, symposiums and conferences on water protection and integrated surface and groundwater management;
V – to cooperate in the investigation and study of reality and scenarios related to surface and groundwater in the regions where it may operate;
VI – to establish partnerships with universities, organizations from the tertiary sector, schools, colleges and other legally constituted Brazilian or international, public or private law institutions, permanently engaged in the field of water resources and environmental protection and preservation;
VII – to set up and manage a website and an internet portal providing information and references on water and environmental realities in its sphere of action, focusing on sustainable water management practices and available technologies;
VIII – to contribute to information and data systems related to water resource management;
IX – to promote social mobilization activities on matters relating to water protection and state and national water resource management, with due observance of the principles established in Federal Law n. 9,433, of January 8, 1997, which institutes the National Water Resource Policy and creates the National Water Resource Management System;
X – to develop and employ appropriate tools for educating different communities, with a view to improving the quality of their lives and attaining sustainable use of water;
XI – to contribute to the achievement of United Nations Millennium Development Goals as well as to the implementation of IHP objectives;
XII – to provide technical assistance for Brazilian and international policy-makers, communities and professionals in its sphere of action;
XIII – to liaise with Brazilian or international, public or private institutions, aiming to raise investment or financing funds for the development of its activities;
XIV – to sign contracts and agreements of any sort for providing advisory, research, human resource capacity building, environmental education services and other services related to its area of expertise;
XV – to establish partnerships with civil society organizations of public interest under the terms of state legislation;
XVI – to develop other activities requisite for fulfilling its purposes.