This goal focuses on enhancing the network's resilience and effectivenes through stronger partnerships, good governance, measuring performance to help learning and financial sustainability.
Outcome challenge 4a
GWP strengthens and builds the capacity of Regional Water Partnerships so they carry out their work plans more effectively, and provide support to the Country Water Partnerships.
Outcome challenge 4b
The Global Water Partnership Organization and the Regional Water Partnerships undertake a change process to improve organisation and management, and streamline financial, administrative and governance structures across the Partnership. GWPO and the RWPs fully incorporate an Outcome Mapping approach as a way to plan, monitor and evaluate the success of annual work plans.
Outcome challenge 4c
GWPO, RWPs and Country Water Partnerships access new and diverse sources of funding for GWP activities while increasing funding from traditional sources.
Strategy to reach Goal 4
At the end of 2008 the Partnership comprised 13 Regional Water Partnerships, nearly 80 Country Water Partnerships and over 2,000 registered Partners. Many Partner organisations and individuals have local influence and are a key resource in bringing about behavioural change in target beneficiaries.
This extensive network allows GWP to better support and influence national and regional policies and actions. GWP will maintain a light and flexible network structure to allow Partners to focus on local priorities and to empower communities to bring their concerns to the national, regional and global levels.
Since its creation in 1996, GWP has progressively established rights and responsibilities at all levels of the network—from the establishment of the Global Water Partnership Organization (GWPO), to the creation of Regional Water Partnerships, Country Water Partnerships and, in some countries, Area Water Partnerships (e.g. at basin, city or district level). The governance of GWP will continue to evolve so that it can best support the achievement of the goals in the 2009–2013 Strategy.