Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) is 1 of 13 Regional Water Partnerships (RWPs) of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) Organisation, a worldwide network of partners all working to achieve sustainable water resources management.
The Statutes of the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) regulate the functions and organisation of the Partnership.
The WACDEP programme is an initiative of AMCOW and involves the major African organisations with competencies in water. The programme is operationalised by GWP and funded by GWP's core donors and by Austria in particular.
GWP Slovakia, GWP Hungary and GWP Ukraine worked with municipalities, river basin organisations, NGOs, farmers and urban planning authorities to develop a workable partnership to manage flood risks in the transboundary Bodrog River Basin.
GWP China Hebei and Hebei Provincial Senior Scientists Association jointly organised a workshop, Low-carbon Economy and Rational Use of Water Resources, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, in October.
As part of ongoing national policy dialogues in Egypt and Lebanon within the framework of MED-EUWI and the GEF MedPartnership, GWP Mediterranean and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) assessed issues for governments to consider regarding private sector investment in the water sector.
GWP Mediterranean promotes rainwater harvesting (RWH) as a way to manage drought on islands in the region. RWH can help islands become more water secure and adapt to climate change.
In 2010 the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and GWP Southeast Asia held their first joint workshop, Risks and Impacts from Extreme Events of Floods in ASEAN Countries, setting a clear precedent for future cooperation.
In 2010 GWP Mediterranean and the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development continued, for the eighth year, to feed information and material on water issues and processes in the region to members of the Circle of Mediterranean Journalists for Environment and Sustainable Development (COMJESD).
At a GWP Myanmar-organized dialogue on 19-20 August 2010 participants concluded that government institutions responsible for water must provide national legislation and policies to foster an integrated approach to managing the country’s water resources. The dialogue, “Formulation of Coordination Mechanism to Engage Institutional Reforms to Foster IWRM among Government Institutions,” was a follow-up to last year’s dialogue. Capacity building training workshops on IWRM were also organized by GWP Myanmar in September.