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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.

Central Asia and Caucasus

3/16/2010

Saving the Aral Sea

A regional process to save the Aral Sea has resulted in an “Action Plan for the realization of the Decisions of the Presidents” of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

The next step is to submit a final action plan in June, with implementation planned for 2011. GWP CACENA, in coordination with the Board of the International Fund for the Aral Sea Saving (IFAS), contributes to the process through technical expertise from GWP Partners and GWP knowledge publications. There is potential for GWP CACENA to be the key driver for capacity development and regional stakeholder participation in the development of the action plan.

Aral Sea is shrinking

(Image shows from left to right the shrinking of the Aral Sea from 1973 to 2009)

For more information about areas that will be addressed in the action plan. The Aral Sea today is now two separate lakes with a volume of water of about 9% of what it was in 1960.

Page last edited: 7/1/2010