Jacques Rey, Acting Head of Network Operations at GWP, presented the activities in the GWP regions on 6 May 2014 in Stockholm.

1. Activities in the GWP regions

5. Overall
Development
Water
Resources
Management
FOOD
ECOSYSTEMS
ENERGY
WSS
LEVELS ACTORS & WATER GOVERNANCE SYSTEM
GLOBAL
REGIONAL
NATIONAL
SUBNATIONAL
LOCAL
OTHER
URBAN
TB BASIN
Sectors
CLIMATECHANGE

6. One example from Latin America - CAM
Annual Conferences for Legislators (’02)
Lagunilla Declaration: regional cooperation, dev. of
water legislation… integrated approach to WRM +
participation)
Improved quality of water bills (TA & consultation
processes)
Nicaragua Water Act 2007
Honduras Water Act 2009
El Salvador  policy reform is underway
Costa Rica  dev. of National Water Policy (2005)
basis for Plan Nacional de Aguas  Water Act 2014

7. International competition, organized by the International
Commission for the Protection of the Danube River and
Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe
annually.
The International Danube Art Master is selected from the
winners of the national 'Danube Art Master' competitions
in 13 Danube Basin countries - Austria, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany,
Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia,
Slovenia and Ukraine. Thousands of children from these
countries enter the competition every year.
In 2013 the winning artwork, entitled "Danube People" was
created from mud by Croatian children.
Danube Art Master
One example from Europe - CEE

8. • 64 basins shared between various countries
• Representing 93% of water resources, but
less than 4% is utilized.
• Potential source of conflict, but also driver
for economic growth
• Objectives of SITWA (EU Funding):
 ANBO as Technical arm of AMCOW
 Institutional strengthening (information
management, capacity development and
investment plans)
African Network of Basin Organizations, ANBO
One example from Africa- Panafrican

9. Fighting illicit river sand mining
in Sri Lanka (2008-2013)
• Significant damages in several rivers: Kalu Ganga,
Walawe ganga, Kelani ganga, Nilwala ganga, Deduru
Oya, Maha Oya, Kirindi Oya
• Action undertaken: a) scientific impact study for
Ratnapura (2008), b) awareness raising workshops for
police STF in Ratnapura, Ampara, Batticaloa, Galle,
Matara districts, Northern & Eastern provinces, c)
political dialogues, d) community mobilization, e)
media campaign...
• Result: >150 regulatory/agency staff, 50 regular
police officers, 200 STF police officers trained
• Impact: marked improvement of regulation &
enforcement levels, 3-fold increase of detections,
arrests & prosecutions
• Partners/Allies: Water Integrity Network (WIN),
Geological Survey & Mines Bureau (SL), Central
Environment Authority (SL)
One example from Asia - SAS

10. 10
GWP Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP)
World wide support to
drought and flood
management with WMO
Global level-support to National adaptation
Plans; collaboration-UNDP, UNEP, UNFCCC, WHO, UNEP,
IFAD, UNITAR,, GEF
Promoting coherence on adapation world wide: developing institutional capacity,
acesss to finance, generating knowldge and tools for policy coherence, delivering at all levels to
unlock investments in water and climate resilient development
One Cross-Regional,
example : WACDEP