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UN Water is the United Nations system's coordination mechanism on water issues. It also includes major non-UN partners who cooperate with them in advancing progress towards the water-related goals of the Water for Life and Millennium Declaration.
The chairmanship of UN-Water rotates amongst its members every two years. The Secretary is based at the UN Secretariat at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs
One of the main themes the UN entities that make up UN-Water deal with is disaster risk reduction. UN-Water offers a platform for the UN system to address water related disaster risk reduction in a coordinated way.
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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.