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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!

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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

12/1/2008

IWRM goes local in Slovakia

In May 2008, the Slovak Association of Villages and Towns (ZMOS) embedded the integrated approach and sustainable sanitation into its Strategy on IWRM in Municipalities and their River Basins.

Water pump, CEE This is the result of cooperation between ZMOS and GWP Central and Eastern Europe (GWP-CEE) established during a 2007 national dialogue. Prior to its adoption, the strategy was reviewed by GWP Slovakia and the GWP-CEE Regional Secretariat, and has been accepted as a reference document for the GWP ToolBox.

ZMOS presented the strategy document during World Water Week in Stockholm and at the Zaragoza Water Expo in August 2008.

The strategy recommends the GWP-CEE book Sustainable Sanitation in Central and Eastern Europe: Addressing the Needs of Small and Medium-Size Settlements (translated into Slovak) in solving wastewater treatment and drinking water problems in local municipalities. ZMOS, which represents more than 2,500 towns and villages, also succeeded in getting IWRM incorporated into the development strategy of Slovakia.

IWRM goes local in Slovakia, CEE

Page last edited: 8/26/2010