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.

Nexus: Water, Food, Energy, and Ecosystems (WFEE)

Water is needed to provide humanity with food and energy, and it must be managed properly to ensure the survival of the earth's ecosystem. That "nexus" makes an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach indispensable.

Due to the close linkages with water resources management, GWP reaches out to agricultural, environmental, and energy partners through cross-sectoral projects and initiatives. With an increasing emphasis on addressing the three areas together with water, through a nexus approach, GWP continues to explore the linkages and conflicts between the three themes.

The involvement of GWP focuses on the country level for this thematic entry point. Indeed, all or almost all countries are equipped with food security policies, energy policies, and ecosystems policies. Hence, there is a need and a niche for GWP Country Water Partnerships to go out of the water box and to reach out to stakeholders of the other sectors in order to promote an integrated water-energy-food-ecosystems approach to sectoral challenges. In this context, a first initiative started on the issue of water and food security in Sub Saharan African countries, building on the work done at global level by the Committee on World Food Security.

Looking back at 2017-2019, key activities included:

GWP supported the food security and water initiative in Sub Saharan Africa as a flagship project, and it valued the results and findings on strategic, operational and knowledge dimensions
GWP further developed partnerships with sectoral agencies/bodies at global level in order to bring from talk to walk sectoral strategies like CFS work on water, SE4All, etc.
GWP supported countries and regional (e.g. RBOs) entities in developing nexus integrated approaches and investment plans
GWP supported countries, regional and global entities in accessing funding to implement Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems (WFEE) nexus development plans
GWP strengthened WFEE nexus-related knowledge management, including developing/contributing to partnerships and platforms allowing for enhanced exchanges between scientific and practitioner communities

Page last edited: 9/8/2020