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GWP’s VISION is a water secure world. Our MISSION is to advance governance and management of water resources for sustainable and equitable development.

OUR UNIQUE VALUE: GWP mobilises action on the global water crisis through a unique combination of social capital, shared values, credibility within the global water community, bottom-up orientation, and expertise. A network of networks, we ensure the ‘voices of water’ can inﬂuence local, national, regional, and global development priorities. We are committed to our role as a neutral convener and respected for our focus on inclusiveness and sustainability.

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GWP creates and communicates information about integrated water resources management which contributes to improved water governance and, ultimately, water security.

Together with our Partners, we provide knowledge resources and capacity building activities for solving water problems.

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Institutional Partners are the basis of GWP's multi-stakeholder partnership. A strong, diverse partnership can bring about the changes needed to achieve a water secure world. In this section, learn about the benefits of being a Partner and meet a few who already are. We invite like-minded organisations to join us!

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This is where you can find links to the websites of our Regional Water Partnerships (RWPs). RWPs are closest to the countries where we work. They share knowledge and learning across national boundaries and are expected to have an open, inclusive, and gender-sensitive policies for bringing together as wide a group of stakeholders as possible to solve water problems.

Water Resilience Frontiers: Key Messages Thursday 5 December 2019

Event1: Putting Koronivia joint work on agriculture into practice: country cases addressing soil, water management and integrated systems

Organiser: FAO

Key messages:

1. Sustainability in agriculture will improve the use of resources, generate revenue, improve adaptive capacity and mitigate climate change.

2. Drained organic soils are a key source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, therefore there is a need to improve water management measures in peatlands.

Event2: Action for adaptation: how we manage water for climate change resilience

Organiser: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and World Water Council (WWC)

Speakers: Hon. Amadou Mansour Faye, Minister for Hydraulic and Sanitation, Senegal; Jennifer Sara,World Bank; Bruce Campbell, CGIAR CCAF; Rachael McDonnell, IWMI; Dr. Yoshihide Wada, WWC; John Matthews AGWA; Trevor Thompson, Grenada

Key messages:

1. Water is the glue that binds the Sustainable Development Goals, Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction agenda together

2. Match investments, infrastructure and institutions to climate, 'Managing water beyond and across sectors builds resilience'. Read more about building climate resilience in the water sector, in a recently published paper written by IWMI and AGWA: Adaptation's thirst: accelerating the convergence of water and climate action.

3. Water investments should be built with sustainability for the lives of the infrastructure of decades, if not centuries, in mind. This approach will assist us to build resilient infrastructure and respond fast to hazards.

4. There is a big challenge in differentiating between climate resilience financing and development financing in the water sector, this is also hindering investments in water resilience.

Photo from Event 1.

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