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.

Global IWRM

1/15/2015 - 1/17/2015

GWP at the UN-Water Zaragoza Conference

The UN-Water annual Zaragoza Conference serves as preparation for the annual World Water Day. GWP representatives participated in several of the sessions.

More than 300 participants from UN agencies and programmes, experts, representatives of the business community, governmental and non-governmental organisations met to discuss how to bring the post-2015 development agenda into action. The theme of the conference was "From Vision to Action".

GWP Chair Dr. Ursula Schaefer-Preuss spoke about the progress on stakeholder engagement during the decade, and GWP Deputy Executive Secretary Rudolph Cleveringa was part of a multi-stakeholder dialogue on tools for implementation of the water related Sustainable Development Goals. GWP's Technical Committee was represented at the conference, by Professor Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy.

The UN website page for the event has a full recap of the event - including recorded videos of all the session.

The 2015 World Water Day theme is "water and sustainable development". The day is celebrated annually on March 22nd.

Photo: GWP Deputy Executive Secretary Rudolph Cleveringa, GWP Chair Ursula Schaefer-Preuss, and Alice Bouman-Dentener of Women for Water Partnership, at the conference.

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