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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.

South America

5/13/2010

Basin governance strengthened in Peru

Melting glaciers and mining operations are just two of the challenges facing the Ocoña River Basin. GWP Peru and partner, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), have worked unremittingly since 2003 to put the foundations for IWRM in place in the basin.

The political will built through dialogues raising awareness of the need to use IWRM to ensure sustainable use of water and expressed in the Water Act of March 2009 led, in 2010, to recognition by the two regional governments that share the basin, Ayacucho and Arequipa, of the importance of IWRM for sustainable development of the 16,000 km2 catchment. Both Ayacucho and Arequipa have taken the important step of setting up groups to support water governance. The next challenge for GWP Peru and PUCP is to support the establishment of a basin council that embraces both regional governments in one institutional framework and involves public, private and civil society sectors in integrated water management.

Page last edited: 6/15/2012