Dear members of the UNESCO Water Family,

We are pleased to inform you that the call for new Ecohydrology Demonstration Sites 2025 is open until 31 August 2025.

The call is open to all UNESCO Water Family and partners (research institutes, universities, government entities, private and scientific organizations, NGOs or any individual water experts), Ecohydrology Practitioners who have a long-term engagement with a solution-oriented project that applies ecohydrological nature-based solutions, as well as UNESCO Designated Sites (Biosphere Reserves, Natural World Heritage Sites and Global Geoparks).

Please check the minimum eligibility criteria to become a UNESCO Ecohydrology Demonstration Site:

• Ecohydrology principles and solutions
• Ecohydrology technologies
• Project solution-oriented
• Transdisciplinary research collaboration
• Multi-Stakeholders Involvement
• Local Community Participation
• Demosite Manager/Coordinator
• Sufficient Funding and in-kind contribution
• Relevant documents/publicationsIf eligible you can proceed to the application form.

UNESCO Water Family members who wish to do so are invited to submit their applications directly via this link: https://forms.office.com/e/Kh7f4pauvE

Further information about UNESCO Ecohydrology Demonstration Sites and the submission for new demo sites are also available in this brochure and in the Ecohydrology Web Platform accessible at: http://ecohydrology-ihp.org

For any further queries, please contact Ms Rahmah Elfithri (r.elfithri@unesco.org) or, generally, the IHP Secretariat (ihp@unesco.org).

Thank you for your kind attention,

with best regards

The IHP Secretariat