About

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.

Shared River, Shared Future: Lancang- Mekong Cooperation (LMC)

The Lancang river basin originates in China and extends to the five countries downstream connecting Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar where it is referred to as the Mekong river. The Lancang-Mekong river basin possesses huge potential for the economic development of the people residing in that area, basically in the form of hydropower development. However, the construction and some under-construction of mega hydropower projects and dams regulates the flow of water affecting the livelihood of the people depending on fishing and agriculture downstream.

Equitable benefit sharing of water

The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) was established with a theme of Shared river shared future in 2012 to support the sub-regional countries in economic and social development, uplifting the well-being of the people and to narrow the development gap among the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) community as well as promoting the implementation of the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development. LMC is a sub-regional cooperation mechanism for the efficient water resource management of water across the basin.

Knowledge exchange

For transboundary water collaboration, GWP China and GWP Southeast Asia, with GWPO support, set up a partnership with the Lancang- Mekong Water Resource Cooperation Center (LMWRCC). LMWRCC with the support of GWP organized a workshop on Flood control and Drought relief technologies in December 2018. Similarly, under the support of GWP China and GWP Southeast Asia (GWP SEA), LMWRCC organized the seminar on ‘Water and Food Security’ on December 5 and 7, 2017, in Beijing where the representatives from the five riparian countries were invited. LMWRCC organized multiple activities of communications, capacity building, and interactive visits to acquire water-related innovative techniques or knowledge, and exchange practices or experiences.

Collaborative approach for sustainable development

The LMWRCC and GWP work efficiently on implementing IWRM, information sharing, and knowledge exchange, energy, economic development, and poverty relief in the Lancang-Mekong river basin countries. This transboundary collaboration has initiated knowledge sharing among nations as well as the development of Five-Year Strategy of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Development in which GWP China and GWP Southeast Asia facilitated identify national water development priorities such as joint research and analysis on climate change; implementation of pilot projects as well as cooperation projects for adaptation technology; and improve water quality monitoring system for the plan of action. This Multi-Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) approach further strengthens collaboration and enables cooperation and mutual understanding among the riparian countries for interregional sustainable development in the ASEAN region.

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