About

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.

Partner

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.

Engaging the Private Sector

Today’s water challenges need all water interests to be at the table to jointly diagnose, discuss, and develop shared solutions – including the private sector. Over the past years, GWP has been able to build experience in engaging the private sector. To further develop this work, engagement with the private sector cuts across all three GWP Anchor Areas (climate resilience, Sustainable Development Goals, and transboundary water cooperation) in the GWP 2020-2025 Strategy.

So far, private sector engagement in water resources management or governance has been limited; yet, as water users, as producers of waste water, as service providers, financiers, or insurers, private sector entities enormously influence water availability and how water-related risks and opportunities are addressed.

GWP's 2020-2025 Strategy, Mobilising for a Water Secure World, promises to mobilise private sector engagement where key water challenges are seen to coincide
with GWP's role, structure, and competencies.

GWP will do so in the context of its work towards Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) – specifically to mobilise private sector engagement and contributions to building enabling environments, institutions, management tools, and finance for managing water resources in an integrated way.

Strategically, GWP will:

Focus on highly water-relevant sectors.
Focus on specific areas where GWP’s role as a trusted convener and solutions broker can make a difference.
Focus on national- or basin-level challenges – not on site-level or company-level engagement.

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Page last edited: 9/8/2020