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.

Impact Stories

The extent to which GWP has successfully fostered governance change is most explicitly captured through the monitoring of water governance outcomes, such as a new water policy, revised legislation, institutional reform or a transboundary agreement. All water governance outcomes to which GWP has contributed are assumed to lead to sustainable socio-economic benefits among the target populations through, for example, increased investment in appropriate infrastructure, empowerment of vulnerable groups and more sustainable use of resources.

We are increasingly able to document such impact, particularly with regards to investments. This is most directly done through the value of investment that GWP has helped to leverage, i.e. support provided to mandated institutions to access funding for project implementation, but also applies to the attribution of downstream investments through national budgets and donor funding for the implementation of the various plans, strategies and initiatives supported by GWP.

There are also cases where impact level results may be more immediate. Demonstration projects, for example, or support in establishing an early warning system for floods are both cases where people’s lives may improve as an immediate consequence of a water security intervention supported by GWP.

Impact stories

As part of our results based management, GWP systematically follows up on the potential impact of the governance outcomes that we have been successful in influencing. Our Impact Stories aim to provide quantified results that help to explain what occurred after a national IWRM plan was approved, a River Basin Organisation was established, a water use allocation tool was operationalised, etc. By showing such downstream results, GWP is in a stronger position to justify why the approach it has adopted to target governance processes is effective in moving towards its vision of water security. Without such an understanding, we are left to rely on the assumption that good governance leads to water security with little direct evidence to back up the claim.

The development of impact stories is therefore a means of demonstrating how GWP’s work positively affects people’s lives on the ground, thereby addressing the challenge of “you supported the development of an IWRM plan. So what?”

The Impact Stories are structured according to the following components:

The targeted issues and associated institutional and policy/planning context
The role of GWP
The governance processes that were influenced
The quantified impact results, e.g. value of investment, number of beneficiaries, socio-economic statistic, etc., that can be attributed to the governance change enabled and GWP’s contribution

A list of stories that have been developed to date are available in the right-hand column.

Page last edited: 9/7/2020