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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.

Slovenian Forestry Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia

An interview with Dr Ursa Vilhar from the Slovenian Forestry Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

1. What is the vision and mission of your organisation?

The Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) serves the public as the nation's leading forestry research institute. The specific objects of the SFI are to promote ecosystem goods and services, to continue and improve traditional close-to-nature sustainable forest management and biodiversity, to foster public understanding of forestry and its importance in Slovenia and to maintain sustainable production capacity.

Also, ecosystem resistance to changes under stress and biological diversity are the key factors that ensure a healthy forest ecosystem, to apply environmentally sound techniques and technologies in forestry.

2. Why did you decide to become a GWP Partner?

We decided to become a GWP partner to enhance knowledge and improve our activities related to the forest-water interactions. Also, taking part in the activites under GWP Central and Eastern Europe's Integrated Drought Management programme was very nice and fruitful experience for our capacity building and knowledge transfer.

3. What have you found to be the benefits of being a GWP Partner?

An important benefit of the partnership with GWP is capacity building and exchanging experiences within the network and also the possiblity to communicate our expereinces and good management practices to a broader, multisectoral water management community.

4. What is one challenge facing the management of water resources in your region?

The main challenge is the lack of coordination and management among different sectors on the watershed level. Several management plans are prepared by water managers, forest managers, nature conservation agencies, municipalities, without taking into account the watershed integrity.

5. Are there any special projects or initiatives that you would like more widely known?

Our institute has a successful project on improvement of Natura2000 forest habitat types alongside Mura river, Slovenia. Also, long-term monitoring of stream quality and quantity in two small forested experimental watersheds in Pohorje Mountains is providing very interesting results for forest practitioners and watershed management.

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