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With that question, GWP Patron HRH Prince Willem-Alexander challenged GWP to propose activities that will give him and GWP an active role in the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul in March 2009. During a two-day visit to Stockholm World Water Week, sandwiched between the Beijing Olympics, the Prince met with GWP representatives on August 19.

In an opening day address at World Water Week in Stockholm, GWP Chair Letitia A Obeng urged decision makers to recognize that using an integrated approach to water management can help solve a wide range of water issues related to current environmental, social and economic challenges.

Publication of the Helsinki University of Technology on the "Water and Development”. This book includes 11 articles that scrutinize the challenges facing Central Asia in areas such as economy, environment, social problems and governance.

The present publication is intended for a wide range of water experts, including decision-makers determining water policy and decisions, which form a course and contents of modern reforms in sphere of governance and water management.

This summary has been prepared to provide water professionals an overview of how to integrate a gender aspects into the development of strategies and integrated water resources management plans.

This paper explores the close link between integrated management, good water governance and financing. It aims to further a more coordinated, coherent approach to water finance and focuses on the need to fund the water resources functions that are essential for security and sustainability. This is a Technical Background Paper, written by the GWP Technical Committee, a group of internationally recognised professionals in integrated water resources management.

This brief addresses the contributions of water to various sectors of economic and social life and, subsequently, to broad development goals. It aims to further the recognition of these contributions and the inclusion of water practitioners in development planning processes, so that water can prioritised adequately. Policy briefs provide policy makers with information on water resources management. They are written by the GWP Technical Committee, a group of internationally recognised professionals in integrated water resources management.