About

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.

Partner

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.

4/9/2024 - 4/10/2024

Two side events to the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference

In a warm-up to the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference taking place in Barcelona on 10-12 April, GWP is involved in two side events on 9 April.

Catalyzing Source-to-Sea Synergies towards Healthy Rivers and a Healthy Ocean

The health of the ocean and its benefits to society are at risk. Source-to-sea management is a holistic approach that recognizes the environmental, economic, and social linkages between land, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems. It builds bridges across land, freshwater, coasts, and the ocean by bringing together upstream and downstream stakeholders across sectors to collaborate on managing healthy ecosystems and building resilient societies.

This event aims to bring together freshwater and ocean communities to develop knowledge, build expertise and promote implementation of source-to-sea action. The outcomes of this session will feed into endorsed programmes of the Ocean Decade, primarily the Healthy Rivers Healthy Ocean (HRHO) programme which aims to develop and implement systemic actions that take into account the interdependencies between the freshwater and ocean systems, to advance the achievement of SDG 6 and 14.

Date and time: 9 April 2024, 9:30-11:00 CEST
Venue: Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain
Organisers: The Action Platform for Source-to-Sea Management, GWP, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Plymouth Marine Laboratory & SIWI
GWP speaker: GWP Deputy Coordinator, Transboundary water cooperation Dimitris Faloutsos
Language: English

Live stream

Explore the Healthy Rivers, Healthy Oceans Programme under the Ocean Decade

New approaches to combat eutrophication and hypoxia

The ocean is deoxygenating at an alarming rate, primarily due to global warming by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and pollution by nutrients and organic wastes particularly in coastal waters.

This joint event presents new approaches to combat hypoxia and eutrophication through the GEF Clean and Healthy Ocean Programme and facilitates connections for co-designed action.

Date and time: 9 April 2024, 17:00-19:00 CEST
Venue: Tech City Pier 07, Via Laietana, 26, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain
Organisers: GEF, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
GWP speaker: GWP Deputy Coordinator, Transboundary water cooperation Dimitris Faloutsos
Language: English

Event Programme

Explore the GEF Clean and Healthy Ocean Programme

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