1. GWP in Action 2011
Dr Ania Grobicki
GWP Executive Secretary

2. Working Towards A
Water-Secure World
A growing international
network since 1996
• 13 Regional Water Partnerships (RWPs)
• 80 Country Water Partnerships (CWPs)
• 2,680 institutional Partners in 165 countries
• Grown more than 5-fold since 2004

3. Our Strategy 2009-2013
1. Promote water as a key part of
sustainable national development
[operational]
2. Address critical development
challenges [advocacy]
3. Reinforce knowledge sharing and
communication [knowledge]
4. Build a more effective network
[partnering]

4. GWP Caribbean
• Ministers recognise
IWRM as mechanism
for sustainable water
resources
management (Goal 1)
• GWP Caribbean
supports IWRM policy
and roadmap for
Guyana (Goal 1)
70 Partners, 20 countries

5. GWP Central Africa
• GWP planning tool supports Kribi port development in
Cameroon(Goal 1)
130 Partners, 7 countries

6. GWP Central America
• Three watershed councils
established in Honduras,
including the Tulian River
Basin (Puerto Cortes)
(Goal 1)
• IWRM Plan for Panama
approved (Goal 1)
162 Partners, 7 countries

7. GWP Central and Eastern Europe
• Danube basin
recognised as a
political and
economic space
(GWP CEE
supporting macro-
projects: Goal 1)
• Awareness of the
environment created
through art (Goal 3) 136 Partners, 12 countries

8. GWP Central Asia and Caucasus
• Agreement on
Aghstev River Basin
Council in Armenia
(Goal 1)
• GWP CACENA to co-
ordinate major Aral
Sea modelling
project bringing
together 5 countries
(Goal 1) 150 Partners, 8 countries

9. GWP China
• Agreement on promotion
of IWRM in Xiangjiang
Basin of Hunan (Goal 1)
• Ministry agrees to
recommendation to
improve water resource
management for extreme
climate adaptation
(Goal 2) 99 Partners, 5 Provincial
Water Partnerships

10. GWP Eastern Africa
• African Development Bank recommends financial
support of IWRM planning in Burundi (Goal 1)
163 Partners, 8 countries

11. GWP Mediterranean
• Specific actions for
private sector
participation in water
infrastructure (Goal 4)
• Agreement on a 5-
country shared vision for
the Drin River Basin
(Goal 1)
87 Partners, 21 countries

12. GWP South America
• Chile's effort towards the
integrated management
of water resources
supported (Goal 1)
• Regional policies
addressing water and
energy nexus in the
context of climate
change advocated (Goal 271 Partners, 10 countries
2)

13. GWP South Asia
• Capacity built involving
stakeholders in IWRM
approach in Rajasthan to
implement water policy
(Goal 1)
• Cost-effective urban flood
risk management
framework developed for
Dhaka city
(Goal 2) 461 Partners, 7 countries

14. GWP Southeast Asia
• Small water
service providers
in the Philippines
now recognised
as delivering on
MDGs (Goal 4)
245 Partners, 9 countries

15. GWP Southern Africa
• Wastewater management
plan developed in
Botswana using an
integrated approach
(Goal 1)
• Climate change
adaptation strategy for
the SADC water sector
launched (Goal 2)
270 Partners, 12 countries

16. GWP West Africa
• GWP Benin played
key role in putting
water on national
agenda (Goal 1)
• GWP Gambia
launched (Goal 4)
201 Partners, 15 countries

17. 2011 : WACDEP launched (8 countries, 4 transboundary
river basins and one transboundary aquifer)
"In the face of climate change, partnerships such as
those launched in the Water, Climate and
Development Programme with Global Water
Partnership represent a good first step."
Hon. Edna Molewa, Minister of Water and Environmental
Affairs, South Africa, and President of AMCOW, at the 3rd
Africa Water Week

18. 2011 : Celebrating 15 years of GWP with
HRH the Prince of Orange : Chair of UNSGAB
and GWP Patron

19. 2011 : GWP spreading the vision of
global partnership
Global Soil Partnership launched by 180
countries in September 2011 at FAO
“The Global Soil Partnership will
complement the 15-year-old Global
Water Partnership ….”
Terms of Reference of GSP :
”The Global Soil Partnership will mirror
the GWP in its structure and
working procedures …”
 MOU signed between GWP and
FAO to strengthen collaboration
at country/regional levels

20. GWP Global
• GWP influenced agenda and
declaration for Rio+20 at the
7th UNECE 'Environment for
Europe„ Ministerial
Conference (Goal 1)
• GWP organized “Water and
Climate Day” at COP 17;
SBSTA resolved to hold a
technical workshop on water
140 Partner organizations from 27
and climate change in 2012 countries that are not associated
(Goal 2) with a Regional Water Partnership