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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.

South America

9/24/2012

Water Financing in Brazil

Following on the series of successful regional workshops on Water Financing carried out in 2009 and 2010 by GWP and the EUWI in South America, the international seminar, "Water and Environmental Sanitation Financing" was held in Porto Alegre on June 11, organized by GWP Brazil in partnership with ABES-RS, the Brazilian Association for Sanitation and Environmental Engineering. Its aim was to identify and promote ways of funding water resources management.

The workshop brought together members of the Basin Committees, universities, municipal representatives, financial institutions, NGOs and technical partnerships around the discussion of instruments and economic and financial mechanisms to promote sustainability of the water and sanitation sector.

The purpose was to identify and promote ways of funding, clarify doubts regarding how to access resources, and prompt funding agencies to consider specific aspects of water resources management systems, for instance by including in their priorities what was established in the basin management plan in the case of Brazil.

The following immediate needs were identified in the workshops:

The need for the federal government to consider the priorities established in the Basin Plan when defining investment priorities;
The need to adjust funding operations for water and sanitation currently applied so as to consider regional differences, especially the characteristics of the Amazon region.
The need to consider, within the framework of projects, a percentage of investment to finance capacity-building and research in the area.

As a contribution to knowledge dissemination, GWP Brazil handed out copies of Economic Aspects of Sustainable Water Management, produced by Cap-Net, GWP and the EUWI-FWG in 2008. It will also deliver this material to individual Basin Committees and municipalities, seeking to support their management.

See photos and read more in Spanish.

Page last edited: 9/24/2012