Global Water Partnership
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| Type | Intergovernmental organisation |
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| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
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Executive Secretary Dr Ania Grobicki |
| Area served | World wide |
| Focus | Water management |
| Website | www.gwp.org |
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| The Global Water Partnership's vision is for a water secure world. Its mission is to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels. | |
The Global Water Partnership (GWP), is an international network that offers practical advice for sustainably managing water resources.[1] It promotes and supports activities that operate at the national and regional levels of development. In addition to development agencies and country members the GWP includes NGOs and research organizations.[2]
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[edit] History
The concept for the Global Water Partnership grew out of the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Environment, the 1977 Mar del Plata Conference, the Dublin statement[3] from the January 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED),[4] the "Protection of the Quality & Supply of Freshwater Resources: Application of Integrated Approaches to the Development, Management & Use of Water Resources" statement (Chapter 18 of Agenda 21 from the Rio Conference),[5] and general dissatisfaction with the lack of sustainability analysis in setting water policy goals and in water planning.[6]
The GWP was founded in 1996 with the support of the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.[7][8]
[edit] Operations
GWP fosters integrated water resource management (IWRM) and provides a forum for dialogue among corporations, governmental agencies, water users, and environmental groups to promote stability through sustainable water resources development, management and use.[9]
The network is open to all organisations involved in water resources management: developed and developing country government institutions, agencies of the United Nations, bi- and multi-lateral development banks, professional associations, research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and the private sector.[10]
The GWP network works in 13 regions: Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, the Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe, Caribbean, Central America, South America, Central Asia and the Caucasus, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. The GWP Secretariat is located in Stockholm, Sweden.
The network is supported financially by Austria, Denmark, the European Commission, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland.[11]
HRH The Prince of Orange Willem-Alexander, Dr. Ismail Serageldin and Margaret Catley-Carlson are Patrons of the Global Water Partnership.[12] The GWP Chair is Dr Letitia A Obeng,[13] GWP Executive Secretary is Dr Ania Grobicki[14] and Dr Mohamed Ait-Kadi is Chair of the GWP Technical Committee.[15]
The GWP network has more than 2,500 partners in 161 countries in 13 regions.
[edit] References
- ^ Falkenmark, Malin and Folke, Carl (September 2000) "How to Bring Ecological Services into Integrated Water Resources Management" Ambio 29(6): pp. 351-352, page 351. The article synopsizes the November 1999 seminar held at the Beijer Institute by the Stockholm University Centre for Research on Natural Resources and the Environment to identify fundamental gaps in the activities and planning of the Global Water Partnership.
- ^ Reinicke, Wolfgang H. (1999) "The Other World Wide Web: Global Public Policy Networks" Foreign Policy No. 117 pp. 44-57, page 47
- ^ http://www.gdrc.org/uem/water/dublin-statement.html
- ^ http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html
- ^ http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_18.shtml
- ^ Gleick, Peter H. (August 1998) "Water in Crisis: Paths to Sustainable Water Use" Ecological Applications 8(3): pp. 571-579, page 572
- ^ Reinicke, Wolfgang H. (1999) "The Other World Wide Web: Global Public Policy Networks" Foreign Policy No. 117 pp. 44-57, page 53
- ^ http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/ENVIRONMENT/0,,contentMDK:20271606~menuPK:559033~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:244381,00.html
- ^ "About Global Water Partnership" Global Water Partnership Toolbox
- ^ http://www.cepis.ops-oms.org/bvsarg/i/fulltext/tac4/tac4.pdf
- ^ "About Us: GWP - Financing Partners Group" Global Water Partnership Forum
- ^ http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/Who_s_who/The_Prince_of_Orange/Water_management_and_spatial_planning
- ^ http://www.gwp.org/en/About-GWP/The-network/Steering-Committee/GWP-Chair/
- ^ http://www.gwp.org/en/About-GWP/The-network/Global-secretariat/GWP-Executive-Secretary/
- ^ http://www.gwp.org/en/About-GWP/The-network/GWP-Technical-Committee/Technical-Committee-Members/
