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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.

6/3/2020

Claudia Ringler of IFPRI: All Water Decisions Affect Climate Resilience

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has worked on water for food issues for over four decades, and therefore the decision to join the Water ChangeMaker Awards as a Knowledge Partner was a happy one, says Claudia Ringler, Deputy Division Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division. According to her, all water decisions affect climate resilience in one way or another.

The degree of difficulty when it comes to water decisions depends on the type of decision that needs to be made. While some decisions may be easy and straightforward, others are not.

"Water decisions that I found particularly difficult to take, relate to the development of water institutions, especially for improved water governance. Just as an example, we now see millions of smallholder farmers who are drilling their own wells - they get access to cheap well drilling and they are able to buy motor pumps, even solar pumps – but managing groundwater tables and groundwater resources that are now being tapped by millions of water users is a different thing. To do that better, and to do that right, we need new water institutions, but decisions on the development of such water institutions have proven to be extremely difficult", says Ringler.

She hopes that many change journeys submitted to the Water ChangeMaker Awards will come from the agriculture sector, since it's heavily reliant on water: "Agriculture is the largest human water user, about 70% of global withdrawal are for agriculture. As such, agriculture water users have the largest scope to affect water decisions, so any decision taken in our space will affect global water use."

IFPRI’s vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. Its mission is to provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition.

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