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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.

1/13/2012

New GWP Technical Committee Members

The GWP Technical Committee consists of up to 12 internationally recognised professionals selected for their experience in different disciplines relating to integrated water resources management. The Committee Chair is Dr Mohamed Ait-Kadi of Morocco.

The following four members are joining the Technical Committee as of 1^st of January 2012 for a period of 3 years.

Prof. Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy
Professor Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy of Sri Lanka is the founding Director of the School of Global Sustainability, the director of the Patel Centre for Global Solutions and a tenured professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at the University of South Florida, USA. He is also Professor of Sustainable Urban Water Systems at UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, in the Netherlands. He was the director of SWITCH, a 25 million euro EU research project for Integrated Water Management for the City of the Future. Professor Vairavamoorthy is an expert in urban water systems operating under future global change pressures and their implications on water governance.

Prof. Oscar De Moraes Cordeiro Netto
Professor Oscar De Moraes Cordeiro Netto of Brasil, as the President of the National Water Master Plan Commission (CTPNRH) and President of the Brazilian Water Resources Council (CNRH), will support Technical Committee thinking on the practical implementation of IWRM and the concept of a "National Water Security Pact". Professor Cordeiro is currently a member of the GWP Steering Committee.

Prof. Eelco van Beek
Professor Eelco van Beek of the Netherlands currently teaches IWRM at the University of Twente. Prof. van Beek was a professor in Modelling in Integrated Water Resources Management at the Delft University of Technology (1992 – 2004), and today leads the Delft Hydraulics research project on Integrated River Basin Management and water allocation under drought conditions. For 35 years he has worked on the interface between IWRM research and its application in the field, and been involved in implementing IWRM in a number of countries.

Dr. Madiodio Niasse
Dr Madiodio Niasse is currently the Director of the International Land Coalition. From Senegal, Dr Niasse holds a doctorate in environmental sciences and has qualifications in environmental and social impact assessment as well as public participation and conflict management. Dr Niasse has served as chairman of GWP West Africa and as such will bring a regional perspective for the operationalization of GWP’s knowledge chain.

The following Technical Committee members end their appointments as of 31 December 2011: Dr. Akiça Bahri, Mr Mike Muller and Mr Humberto Peña. More information about the Technical Committee.

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