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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 and Eastern Europe

9/1/2010

Guidelines for Water Management

Located in the Baltic Sea Basin, water quality management is one of the Poland's key issues, creating problems for people’s livelihoods and the environment. Due to year-to-year variability in its water resources, devastating floods and local water scarcities are frequent.

The European Union provides policy frameworks for cooperation and management of water resources. The project “Continuation of the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive” was carried out in joint efforts by both Polish and French experts who are faced with issues of implementing the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in their respective countries at national, regional or basin level.

The Polish-French Twinning Project resulted in the completion of guidelines and recommendations for the management of the Upper Vistula basin in Poland. The finalised guideline documents, recommendations and methodologies are expected to provide a basis for efficient implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Poland in the future.

GWP Poland promotes the principles of IWRM and provides a forum for bringing water stakeholders together for knowledge exchange and implementation of action programs, and was instrumental in the process where tests and risk assessment for surface water, groundwater and coastal waters were conducted and co-operation between different stakeholders within basin borders were mobilized. A wide public consultation was organised to share experiences and to establish a mechanism to exchange and share information to the interested parties. This has enabled the Regional Offices for Water Management to develop guidelines regarding different aspects of management.

Read the full case study in the GWP ToolBox.

Page last edited: 1/20/2011