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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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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.

10/17/2013

GWP Associate Wins UNESCO-IHE Alumni Award

Michael Mutale from Zambia is the first ever winner of the UNESCO-IHE Alumni Award 2013. Mr. Mutale has been involved with GWP since its early days in 1996, and was instrumental in setting up many of GWP’s projects in Southern Africa.

The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education has provided more 14,500 water professionals from over 160 countries with a postgraduate education. As of this year, the Institute gives an annual award to an alumni who is at the height of her or his career and has proven to be a role model for other water professionals. Announcing the winner of the first award, UNESCO-IHE praised Mr. Mutale for “his dedication to improving the quality of life in Southern Africa and his efforts in solving water resources management challenges”.

Michael Mutale is currently the Executive Secretary at the Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM) and former coordinator of the GWP Southern African Regional Technical Committee. His career has been interlinked with the GWP network for a long time:

“I have been fortunate to have been associated with GWP from its nascent stages when I served a member of the Southern African Technical Committee (SATAC, 1996-2001). SATAC was an embryonic mechanism to test how the partnership would function. As SATAC member, a vivid memorable moment was when I successfully facilitated the establishment and launch of the Zambia Water Partnership in 2000. Since then I have been contributing regularly to the various thematic efforts of GWP and GWP Southern Africa in particular, especially when I served the role of coordination of the Regional Technical Committee (RTEC) from 2008 to 2011. At the moment I still continue collaborating with GWP, only this time with a ZAMCOM "hat".

Mr. Mutale’s dedication to water management also earned him a laureate of the Zayed International Prize for Environment in 2005, as one of the experts of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Mr. Mutale received his Alumni Award at the annual celebration of the UNESCO-IHE Alumni Day on 17 October 2013.

Alumni Day 2013

All photos by UNESCO-IHE, from the Award ceremony in Delft, The Netherlands.

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