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.

Mobilising Youth for Water Resources Management

We have the largest number of young people the world has ever known and the majority of them live in the Southern hemisphere. ‘Youth are our future’ is a commonly used phrase. But in fact they are also the present. The challenge is to recognise the contributions that youth can and already to make to facilitate the ‘inter-generational exchange that lies at the heart of sustainable development.’

GWP’s Youth Engagement Strategy is GWP’s contribution to this process. The Strategy was launched in 2015 to complement the GWP’s Gender Strategy. Together they continue to support GWP's main Strategy for 2020-2025, Mobilising for a Water Secure World.

Since the launch of the Youth Engagement Strategy, GWP teams around the world has purposefully reached out to and mobilised youth groups and younger individuals to confront water resources management challenges.

And the 2020-2025 Strategy promises to reinvigorate GWP's efforts to include young people in water decisions, offering pathways for youth to become agents of change for improved water resources management and sustainable development.

More specifically, as part of all programmes developed under GWP’s Anchor Areas, GWP's work to mobilise youth will focus on:

Supporting youth engagement in water policy processes, including through joint learning and capacity building on youth engagement with youth and partners;
Cultivating youth-led initiatives for advancing good water management and governance; and
Leveraging water resources management to build employment opportunities and innovative approaches relevant for youth interested in contributing to building a water secure world.

Page last edited: 9/8/2020