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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!

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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.

2/20/2024

Launch of Community on Drought Management in Latin America and the Caribbean

On 30 January, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and GWP organised an online peer-to-peer exhange on drought management in Latin America and the Caribbean, bringing together 250 experts, policy makers, and scientists from the region.

This webinar also marked the official launch of the UNCCD Community of Learning and Practice (CLP) on the same topic. Positioned as an online space for professionals in drought management and associated fields to connect, interact, and work towards fostering drought management action, the platform offers a number of features, including a discussion forum, paper and datasets sharing, courses, and other capacity building events and opportunities.

During the webinar, the need to elevate the political profile of drought in the region as well as the need to shift from reactive to a proactive management of droughts was highlighted by Sandra Megens, followed by Waldo Lavado, who shared insights on the efforts made to assess the hydrological droughts in Peru and stressed the need for integrated inter-sectoral response strategy. Cesar De Las Casas, presented how drought management has been embedded as part of the strategic action plan developed by the ACTO and what they have been doing towards building a drought resilience dashboard for the Amazon basin. See full list of speakers below.

Speakers at the webinar:

Ms. Andrea Meza Murillo, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNCCD
Mr. Edgar Guitierrez, Advisor UNCCD, Former Minister of the Environment, Costa Rica
Dr Felipe Montoya Greenheck, Professor York University, Moderator UNCCD CLP-LAC
Mr. Waldo Lavado, Deputy Director of Hydrological Studies and Research (SEH) in SENAMHI- Peru
Ms. Sandra Megens, Environmental water advisor, Ph.D. candidate on drought & disaster-risk-governance, Wageningen University
Mr. César de las Casas, Former Executive Director of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO/OTCA).

We invite all interested professionals to join the community, engage, and be a driving force in shaping a resilient future for Latin America and the Caribbean amidst the challenges of drought. The UNCCD CLP is hosted on the IWRM Action Hub.

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