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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.

Central Asia and Caucasus

5/22/2012

GWP IWRM ToolBox Introduced in Armenia

GWP conducted a training course on the “Application of the GWP IWRM ToolBox” at the Yerevan State University in Armenia, 25-26 April 2012. One of the main purposes of the training was to demonstrate how the GWP IWRM ToolBox can be used in university curricula.

The training had 18 attendees from Armenia, mainly professors of Yerevan State University, Armenian State Agriculture University, Armenian governmental agencies and GWP Armenia. Two participants from the Technical University of Georgia, a neighbor country, were also invited to the training . The aims of the 2 days training were:

to introduce GWP ToolBox to participants from educational institutions
to illustrate the application of ToolBox for training and capacity building programs
to disseminate and share experience on IWRM application in Caucasus and Central Asia and other GWP regions
to encourage professors of universities to develop IWRM curricula based on the Toolbox

The training was organised at the initiative of Yerevan State University which plans to include IWRM training and the GWP ToolBox into the programme of a Masters Course. At the end of the training, all participants were requested to provide a feedback, in order to learn lessons and applicability in other countries (regions). The report and all presentations are available here.

Page last edited: 5/22/2012