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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.

12/17/2014

Strengthening Drought Knowledge

GWP Central America has been working closely with the Regional Committee for Water Resources (CRRH), which is part of the Central American Integration System, to strengthen regional capacity in the monitoring of climate to support decision making, especially related to agriculture, fisheries, water resources management, risk management and food security.

To this end, GWP Central America supported the CRRH in their periodical Climate Forum, in which the members of said forum produce a climate report for the next four months. With this information, the Forum members, together with regional experts on food security produce a report with recommendations for decision makers in regards to agriculture and other sectors related to food security. These two working meetings were held in Panama City from the 18-20 of November.

In the context of these events, GWP Central America and CRRH held a second workshop on the use of the standardized precipitation index (SPI) as a tool to monitor drought in Central America (November 17). Participants included officials from the national meteorological and hydrometeorological services of the region.

The recently published study, “Patterns of drought in Central America: Its impact on the production of corn and beans and use of the Standard Precipitation Index for Early Warning Systems”, which was produced by GWP Central America, CRRH and the Swiss Agency for Cooperation (SDC), was distributed among the participants of the event.

Photo: Women and children collecting water in Guatemala (archive photo)

Page last edited: 12/16/2014