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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.

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.

Global IWRM

4/16/2020

Julie Perkins of GWOPA: Why Water Utilities Should Share Their Change Journey

GWOPA’s Julie Perkins talks about the role of water operators and explains why everyone should submit their change journey to the Water ChangeMaker Awards, get recognition and share their solutions with the rest of the world. “The very courageous and visionary people and institutions, who have taken bold leadership to climate action should really be credited with this”.

Julie Perkins is Officer in Charge of the Secretariat at UN-Habitat's Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA): “Those people who have led this kind of work are particularly aware of how challenging it has been and how important it is to support others in this kind of journey. And I think this is why sharing a journey with the Water ChangeMaker Awards is so important that can really inspire and empower others to take on the same kind of path."

In the below video interview, Julie Perkins also shares her views on what and how water decisions are taken by water operators that contribute to building climate resilience, and the importance of climate resilience in the context of the COVID19 pandemic.

“We are very proud to be partners in the Water ChangeMaker Awards, because climate resilience is absolutely urgent and fundamental to utilities, sustainability and the achievement of all the Sustainable Development Goals”, says Julie. “We believe very strongly that peers and peer professionals can inspire and empower and change like nothing else”.

GWOPA is one of the partners in the Water ChangeMaker Awards. GWOPA’s purpose is to support and scale up knowledge exchange and peer partnerships between utilities in order to strengthen their capacity to provide services sustainably and over the long term.

Page last edited: 4/16/2020