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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.

Mediterranean

7/1/2010

Political tensions sink Mediterranean water strategy

The 4th Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Water failed to adopt a comprehensive and urgently needed Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean because of a failure to compromise on the wording of two key political issues: the reference or not to ‘occupied territories’ and the reference or not to the UN Convention on the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses.

The outcome was unfortunate given that the 43 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean had agreed on the entire content of the draft Ministerial Declaration and on almost all of the Strategy text.

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GWP Mediterranean provided technical and administrative support to the formal process and its political partners, a contribution that was recognised by Spain, the host country of the Ministerial Conference the GWP-Med Secretariat has provided an excellent support to the Spanish Directorate General for Water in all the related tasks’ and ‘has granted advice when needed, has actively participated in the technical contents of the document and has facilitated the logistics…. In summary, your support and friendship have been very useful and fully appreciated by all of us.” The conference took place in Barcelona on April 13 2010.

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