The leaders of GWP’s country platforms are fundamental to GWP's mission. The 2020 – 2025 GWP Strategy identifies the strengthening of CWPs as critical to amplifying GWP’s impact. To support this, GWP’s global secretariat is offering a space to learn from each other by:
- Providing participants with an opportunity to learn from peers and jointly come up with ideas on how to build stronger CWPs for increased impact;
- Identifying challenges, and successful strategies and experiences to overcome them;
- Enhancing connections to, and benefiting from, a global community.
Additionally, the session marked the kick-off for GWP’s 25th Anniversary celebrations.
The exchange was 1,5 hours and was held twice to accommodate different time zones:
- 9 AM CET (for those especially from Asia, Europe, Mediterranean, and Africa)
- 3 PM CET (for those especially from the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Mediterranean, and Africa)
The session was organised for CWP and GWP country platform leaders: Chairs, Executive Secretaries and, as relevant, other individual(s) driving the growth of the country platform. Many participants reached out during the event and asked for others' contacts. A shared document is available here for all who would like to exchange contact information.
More information is provided in the concept note. This is also available in French and Spanish - and furthermore some background information in Russian.
For any queries, you are welcome to email us at CWPs-exchange@gwp.org.
Agenda |
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Introduction Speakers: Julienne Roux, Senior Network Specialist, GWPO and Ralph Philip, Senior Specialist, Technical coordinator STRONG programme, GWPO - Welcome - Objectives of the event and overview of agenda - Scene setting on country platforms in the GWP ecosystem. |
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GWP celebrates 25 years Address: Peter Repinski, GWP Interim Executive Secretary |
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Sharing of experience from CWP leaders Facilitator: Julienne Roux Speakers for the first session: - Dr Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim, Vice-Chair of Malaysian Country Water Partnership - Dr Victor Kongo, Executive Director, Tanzania Water Partnership Speakers for the second session: - Valdemira da Silva Tavares, Chair Sao Tome Principe Partnership - Carmen Gonzales, Chair, Nicaragua Water Partnership
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CWPs recipes for partner engagement Facilitator: Laurent Charles Tremblay-Lévesque, IWRM & Knowledge Management Specialist Discussions in break out groups to share approaches that have worked with others, exchange ideas and make recommendations - 5 min: introduction to the discussion in plenary - 20 min: group discussion 10 min: reporting back by the groups in plenary |
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Closing Facilitator: Molly Robbins, Strategy & Partnership Specialist - Closing remarks from a Regional Water Partnership representative - Live consultation on interest for engagement going forward - Next steps |