In May 2008, the Slovak Association of Villages and Towns (ZMOS) embedded the integrated approach and sustainable sanitation into its Strategy on IWRM in Municipalities and their River Basins.
The Fujian Provincial Water Resources Department has found that establishing Water Users Associations (WUAs) is one of the best approaches to improving the integrated management of small-scale water projects in rural areas.
In 2008, the Sri Lanka Water Partnership (SLWP) began working with the Water Integrity Network (WIN) to fight corruption surrounding illicit and unregulated river sand mining.
The Global Water Partnership’s mission is to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels. In implementing our 2009-2013 Strategy, our support will focus on four key goals: promoting water as a key part of sustainable national development; addressing critical development challenges (such as climate change, food security energy security and urbanization); reinforcing knowledge sharing and communications and; building a more effective network.
The annual Global Water Partnership Consulting Partners meeting took place in Stockholm 15-16 August 2009. With a network of more than 2000 partners spanning over 70 countries, a consultative approach in which Partners recommend actions to be taken is essential to the work of GWP.
GWP Acting Executive Secretary Martin Walshe together with Network Officer Aly Kerdany and representatives of the GWP Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa & Central Africa regions attended the Joint Meetings of the African Ministers’ Council On Water(AMCOW), African Development Bank (ADB), and UN Water in Addis Ababa 7-9 October 2008.
GWP China has a delegation group of four members, Prof. Wang Hao, Vice Chair; Mr. Zheng Rugang, Coordinator; Dr. Jiang Yunzhong, Communication Officer and Ms. Ma Yilin, Program Officer, to attend the Fifth World Water Forum (WWF5) in Istanbul, Turkey, March 16 to 22, 2009.
As one of sponsors of the 3rd Yangtze River Forum which is one of great water events in China, the GWP China contributed both experts and expertise to the forum, April 19~21, 2009.
The 2nd Partners Meeting of GWP China was taken place on 13 May, in Changsha, Hunan Province.
The Yellow River Forum, gathering around 1500 participants from 61 countries, was hosted in Zhenzhou, capital of Henan Province, 20-23 October, 2009 to discuss around the theme of “Ecological Civilization and River Ethics”.