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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!

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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.

5/25/2020

John Matthews of AGWA: Climate Resilience is an Active Leadership

"We're interested in the Water ChangeMaker Awards because we understand that climate resilience is an active leadership," says John Matthews, Executive Director of Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) on the decision to partner with GWP for the Awards: “Climate resilience is something that requires bold thinking and bold actions, and we need the Water ChangeMaker Awards as a signal for aspirations, for hopes, for what positive change can really look like.”

This signal can also be used to mark a new beginning to the way we think about water resources management, says Matthews: “One of the biggest assumptions that we've made for many decades around water management, is that the past predicts the future. Climate change tells us that the past is not a good prediction of the future anymore. In fact, there are lots of uncertainties.”

He also stresses the need for an integrated approach – climate and water are not separate from each other.

“The water community understands that water not something that is bound up in a single discipline, nor is it bound up in a single sector. There is no single institution that owns water. We understand that water is something that bleeds across sectors and institutions and disciplines. Water is more a connector than a sector. That insight is what I believe the climate community needs from water. The Water ChangeMaker Awards is an opportunity to signal this joining together”, says Matthews.

Watch his full interview:

AGWA is an international NGO working across technical and policy programs to mainstream resilient water resources management, focusing on the connections between water resources and climate adaptation and mitigation. AGWA works with and through its member network to develop and crowdsource solutions across disciplines, institutions, and sectors.

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