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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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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!

GWP Regions

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.

8/23/2022 - 9/1/2022

GWP at World Water Week 2022

World Water Week is a global event that brings the international community together to work towards a more water-wise world. This year, World Water Week was themed ‘Seeing the unseen: The value of water’, and took place 23-25 August (online only) and 28 August – 1 September (online and on-site in Stockholm).

GWP was strongly positioned at World Water Week 2022 through its involvement in more than 20 events. At this year’s World Water Week, GWP was especially highlighting its work on building resilience to drought and flooding to safeguard populations and reduce poverty in the context of climate change impacts. In partnership with WMO, GWP supports the Integrated Drought Management Programme and the Associated Programme on Flood Management, which is celebrating its 20^th Anniversary. GWP furthers additional important work in this area through its membership in the Water and Climate Coalition Leaders Panel and the High-Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters. The following sessions at World Water Week demonstrated the value of all of these collaborative relationships:

On Thursday 25 August (online): Closing the last mile: People-centric flood & drought early warning systems

On Sunday 28 August (on-site):

Water and Climate: Act, learn, scale-up: This session introduced the winners of the MiniMax Competition: Solutions for Managing Water and Climate Extremes
Enhancing resilience of ecosystems and society against droughts

On Tuesday 30 August (on-site 8 AM): Raising the ambition of the UN 2023 Water Conference - Coffee in the park (Drottningatan entrance of Norra Latin)

On Wednesday 31 August (on-site + online): Co-implementing Integrated Drought Management: the next decade

On Thursday 1 September (on-site + online):

In addition, the GWP Booth, located in the main 3^rd floor auditorium offered many networking opportunities and participatory activities. Thanks for joining us there!

Other session highlights:

On Wednesday 24 August (online)

On Sunday 28 August (on-site):

The Two Sides of Building Your Water and Climate Career

On Tuesday 30 August (on-site + online):International High Level Panel for Water Investments in Africa

On Thursday 1 September (on-site + online):

Connecting WRM and WASH for a climate-resilient future

Check out our five takeaways

Page last edited: 6/9/2022