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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.

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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.

3/25/2015 - 3/27/2015

The Dresden Nexus Conference in March 2015

The Global Water Partnership is among the organising stakeholders

The Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources at the United Nations University, and the Technical University of Dresden, along with the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, are organizing the Dresden Nexus Conference between 25-27 March 2015, in Dresden, Germany.

The conference will focus on Global Change, SDGs and the Nexus Approach, focusing on: climate, urbanisation, and population growth. The discussion will center on the way the nexus approach can guide the integrated management of environmental resources (water, soil and waste) towards achieving the potential Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the post-2015 UN agenda.

The Dresden Nexus Conference 2015 aims to identify best management practices for maintaining and enhancing environmental resources by adopting the nexus approach to their sustainable management, capacity development needs required for the implementation of a nexus approach and the achievement of the SDGs, as well as priorities for research, education and policy advice.

Among the topics in the agenda are the following: climate change adaptation & mitigation, inclusive & sustainable industrial development for resource efficient industries, sustainable energy solutions, eco-cities, urban environmental development, urban ecosystem services & biological diversity, integrated urban water management, soil functions for achieving SDGs, land degradation, water quality, regional land-use dynamics, water security, food waste, integrated land use planning and ecosystem services.

GWP supports the organisation of the Conference along with other stakeholders (public administration, academia, international agencies and organizations). Dr. Danka Thalmeinerova, Senior Knowledge Management Officer at GWP, is serving as a member of the Conference’s Scientific Committee. GWP Regions are getting organised to contribute to the Conference’s deliberations.

For more information on the abstract submission, the deadlines, the registration procedure, the sessions and the themes, the conference’s background and the expected outcomes, visit the conference homepage.

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