Core Objectives

  • Implementing programmes on improved natural resources management and on conservation of important biodiversity reserves, habitats and ecosystems as well as programmes to promote sustainable use of water for agriculture and energy, land for agriculture, and infrastructure for producing goods and services sustainably;
  • Contributing to sustainable development and environmental conservation;
  • Engaging in generating, developing and sharing knowledge and useful innovative practices on water and land resource management;
  • Initiating, proposing and acquiring funding for strengthening and implementing programmes that improve management of water and land resources in major basins of Ethiopia;
  • Implementing research programmes on hydro sedimentology, climate and sustainable water and land management in cooperation with other organizations at national and international levels;
  • Providing capacity building and backstopping services to like-minded institutions;
  • Cooperating with government and non-government organizations to work on programmes and initiatives in sustainable water and land management in Ethiopia;
  • Initiating and/or facilitating the formulation and implementation of transdisciplinary partnership programmes with appropriate organizations, government agencies and research institutions.