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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.

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 Floods/droughts

5/15/2018

GWP Provides Expertise to WMO HydroConference

GWP co-organised the recent World Meteorological Organization (WMO) HydroConference – the Global Conference for Prosperity through Hydrological Services – in Geneva, Switzerland. The event set out to create better interfaces between the providers of hydrological services and the users who need such services for a wide range of decision-making.

The conference highlighted initiatives in the hydrological value chain, which starts with measuring physical variables in the field and ends with delivering products that are tailored to the information requirement of final users.

GWP provided its expertise in engaging stakeholders at the local, national, and regional level through its country and regional water partnerships as well as its expertise on drought and flood management through its joint programmes IDMP and APFM with WMO.

In a conference statement, the 219 delegates from 85 countries and 34 organisations highlighted that sustainability of water resources and reduction of disaster risk can only be achieved by addressing the full value chain, from data collection to the production of efficient hydrological services that allow informed decision and policy-making.

GWP was represented at the conference by staff from GWP Central Africa, GWP Eastern Africa, GWP Mediterranean, the global GWP secretariat, as well as some GWP Partners.

A video summary of the conference:

Connecting meetings

In connection to the HydroConference, GWP Technical Committee Chair Jerry D. Priscoli and Senior Programme and Network Officer Frederik Pischke represented GWP at the meeting of the High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP) in Geneva 3-4 May.

This was an opportunity to strengthen this strategic partnership and connect the many things GWP does that are related to the work of the Panel, exploring how GWP can add value through its multi-stakeholder partnerships on drought and flood management, climate change adaptation, investment planning, water-climate risk insurance, water sharing and consultations/ground truthing.

Page last edited: 5/15/2018