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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.

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2014 / English

IAHR Visited GWP China Secretariat

2015 / English

LCBC: For the implementation of IWRM for transboundary water resources management.

From the 7^th to 10^th September, 2015 was held in N’djamena, Chad a training workshop for staff and experts of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) on IWRM for transboundary water resources management.

Organized by the Department of Natural Resources Management of the LCBC in collaboration with GWP Central Africa (GWP CAf), the workshop brought together fifteen participants from the secretariat of the LCBC.

The objective was to strengthen their understanding of the IWRM concept and its principles, and also develop their capacity in using some specific IWRM planning tools with a special focus on development and management of transboundary water resources. It also aimed at ensuring a common understanding of the concepts, principles and planning process of IWRM among key staff of the LCBC secretariat.

2014 / English

Economic Task Force to Deliver Report Soon

The Expert Task Force of the joint GWP/OECD Global Dialogue project met in Paris in November to evaluate their work on the economics of water security. The report will be finalized in the coming months, before the official version is presented at the World Water Forum in South Korea in April 2015.

2015 / English

List of Programmes

2014 / English

WACDEP supports NAP Regional Training Workshop for African LDCs

The WACDEP supports Regional Training Workshops for African Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to advance their National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and the Regional Training Workshops on Economics of Adaptation, Water Security and Climate Resilience, Early Warning System of the African Union (AU) and the African Ministries Council on Water (AMCOW), the Global Water Partnership (GWP) in collaboration with UNDP-GEF, CDKN and CapNet will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia:

2014 / English

Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) Vacancy - Executive Director

Our partner, the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) is seeking to recruit an Executive Director, to be stationed at its Secretariat which is headquartered in St. Joseph, Trinidad.

2013 / English

Planners discuss inclusion of Water Security and Climate Resilience in National Development

Planning Officers from Rwanda Ministry of Natural Resources, infrastructure, Ministry of Local Government and Water and Environment policy implementing Agencies discussed inclusion of water security and climate change adaptation in the national planning.

2015 / English

5th capacity building workshop for national institutional actors

The last training session carried out within the framework of the implementation of capacity building program on water security and climate resilience by GWP Cameroon from 25^th to 26^th of February 2015 aimed at equipping participants with skills and knowledge on mainstreaming water security and climate resilience in their day to day functions for climate resilient development. Read more

2014 / English

Dam Hydraulics Seminar to be Hosted by The University of the West Indies in January 2015

The Engineering Institute in collaboration with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus are hosting a Dam Hydraulics Seminar on January 14^th and 15^th, 2015.

2015 / English

Agenda- Coming soon!

- 29 MAY 2015, Niamey : National validation workshop of a study for the MEKROU project

- 4 and 5 June 2015, Fada N’Gourma : National validation workshop of a study for the MEKROU project

- 15 and 16 June, Cotonou : National validation workshop of a study for the MEKROU project

- 15 and 16 July 2015, Cotonou: Regional workshop of the consultative committee and validation of the political framework for cooperation to be signed for the MEKROU project.