RCUWM Director
DirectorRCUWM Functions and Activities
Recent News
Meeting: Fostering Collaboration between UNESCO in the Field and Networks towards the Agenda 2030
Date: 21-24 July 2016 Venue: Bali, Indonesia Organizer: UNESCO[...]
Development of a Grid-Based Precipitation Dataset for West Asia to Feed Climate Change Studies
Date: July 2016- On-going Objectives/Outcomes: Precipitation Estimation from Remotely[...]
Second Meeting: UNESCO World’s Large Rivers Initiative (WLRI) Working Group
Date: 27-28 June 2016 Venue: Vienna, Austria Organizer: University[...]
Fourth Governing Board Meeting: The International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC)
Date: 21 June 2016 Venue: Federal Foreign Office- Berlin,[...]
International Drought Initiative (IDI)
The International Drought Initiative (IDI) was approved by the 19th Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Program in Paris, France, July 2010.
and RCUWM-Tehran was assigned as the secretariat of this initiative by the Ministry of Energy, I. R. Iran.
IDI aims at providing a platform for networking and dissemination of knowledge and information between international entities that are active working on droughts.