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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!

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.

9/15/2011

GWP Contributes to the Bonn 2011 Conference

The German Federal Government is organizing the international “Bonn2011 Conference: The Water Energy and Food Security Nexus – Solutions for the Green Economy” to be held from 16 to 18 November. The conference has been announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a specific German contribution to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development “Rio2012”.

The Bonn2011 Conference will deliver on three objectives:
To develop policy recommendations based on multi-stakeholder consultations and taking a nexus perspective
To position the water, energy and food security nexus perspective as an important dimension within the 'Rio2012' process as well as the Green Economy and Green Growth concepts
To launch concrete initiatives to address the water, energy, food security nexus in a coherent and sustainable way.

The Global Water Partnership will participate in the conference and has committed to contribute to the Bonn 2011 Conference processes with a scientific paper that aims to identify and analyze the enabling factors and incentives for decision makers to respond to the challenges of managing the water-energy - food security nexus in a coordinated and integrated way and within a “Green Economy” context.

In addition, in order to support the Bonn process at a regional level, GWP Regional Water Partnerships in the following regions will discuss these priority questions presented by the Bonn organisers.

1. Caucasus and Central Asia (representatives of 8 countries)
2. Central and Eastern Europe (representatives of 13 countries)
3. Mediterranean (representatives of 20 countries)
4. Southern Africa(representatives of 12 countries)
5. South East Asia (representatives of 9 countries)

Feedback will be provided from each of the meetings on specific issues in the region – where food, energy and water security issues are being tackled in an integrated way. The partnerships will also comment on existing processes and what further actions need to be undertaken to institutionalize an integrated approach. Read more.

More information about the conference.

Video with GWP Patron and former Chair Margaret Catley-Carlson.

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