The document outlines plans to build on the strengths of the Global Water Partnership's (GWP) current strategy in developing a new "2020 Vision". It has a vision of a water secure world with enough water for all. The GWP network has grown significantly in recent years and its key strengths include being a neutral multistakeholder platform, inclusive structures, strong knowledge base, and moving from advocacy to implementation. The strategy will focus on four goals - promoting water as part of sustainable development, addressing critical challenges like climate change and food security, knowledge sharing, and building a stronger network. It will implement this vision through regional and country partnerships, knowledge dissemination, and building climate resilience through water security.

1. BUILDING THE NEW GWP STRATEGY
“2020 VISION”
ON THE STRENGTHS OF OUR CURRENT STRATEGY
Dr Ania Grobicki
Executive Secretary, GWP
August 2013

2. VISION – a water secure world
• Enough water for all – for society, for economic
development, and for ecosystems
• Security from droughts, floods, landslides, water-
borne diseases – all the negative aspects of water
• Improved quality of life for the most vulnerable,
especially women and children
• Through an integrated approach – holistic, all-
encompassing
MISSION – To support the sustainable development and
management of water resources at all levels

3. • 13 Regional Water Partnerships (12 in 2009)
• 84 Country Water Partnerships (around 70 in 2009)
• 2,820 institutional Partners in 167 countries (around 2000 in 2009)
• Up from 500 Partners in 2004
A growing international
network since 1996

4. GWP: Network, Partnership
and InterGovernmental Organization
“A partnership is not the sum of its parts,
it is the product of the parts' interaction.”

5. (with important variations from region to region)
- 27% government/public sector
- 12% private sector
- 37% NGOs
- 19% academic / research / professional orgs
- 5% other (eg. international orgs, media)
KEY STRENGTHS :
 A neutral multistakeholder platform
 Inclusive yet clear structures at all levels
 Strong knowledge base
 Moving from advocacy to implementation
Overall structure after 15 years of GWP :

6. Four Strategic Goals
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]

7. GWP vision
Water security
A key contributor to
sustainable socio-economic
well-being and national
development
Goal 3
Reinforce knowledge sharing and
communications
Raising awareness, creating and
disseminating knowledge, and
building capacity
Goal 2
Address critical
development challenges
Develop and advocate
solutions to help governments
take better decisions to
improve resilience
Goal 4
Build a more effective network
Government, civil society and the
private sector strengthen the
partnership to improve governance
and sustainable funding
Goal 1
Promote water as a key part of
sustainable national development
Governments make water
resources management a top
priority and invest in its
development
GWP Strategy :
• 4 Interconnected goals
• A theory of change

8. Mission:
…to support the sustainable development and
management of water resources at all levels
Strategic Goals
Strategic Elements
Global Water Partnership
Strategy 2009-2013
Vision and Mission
1.1Improvingsupportfor
watermanagementthrough
nationalprocesses
1.2Improvinggovernance
systems
1.3Improvingwater
infrastructure
1.4Improvingfinancingfor
watermanagement
1.5Facilitating
transboundarycooperation
1.6Monitoringprogresson
IWRM
2.1Adaptingtoclimate
change
2.2Achievingfoodsecurity
2.3Tacklingurbanisation
(includingwatersupplyand
sanitation)
2.4Resolvingconflict
4.1Partnershipand
alliancebuilding
4.2GWPperformance
measurment
4.3GWPfinancial
sustainability
4.4SupportingtheGWP
network
3.1Improving
communicationscapacity
3.2ImprovingGWP
outreach
3.3StrengtheningGWP
knowledgesharing
Goal 1:
Promote water as a key part of
sustainable national development
Goal 2:
Address critical development
challenges
Goal 3:
Reinforce knowledge sharing and
communications
Goal 4:
Build a more effective network
1a: Incorporate existing policies/
plans into national development
and implement
1b: Develop/strengthen weak/non-
existant policies/plans in national
development and implement
1c: Multi-stakeholder involvement in
building local capacity and
implementing policies/plans
2a: Take into account the links
between water and climate
change and develop solutions
for adaptation
2b: Address critical development
challenges, particularly food
security, urbanisation and
conflict resolution
2c: Objective and incisive
intellectual contributions
from GWP and its partners
3a: Knowledge dissemination to
global entities and the corporate
world
3b: Stakeholders have better access
to relevant and practical
knowledge and capacity to share
3c: Communications culture
embedded across the
Partnership and stakeholders
take up strategic information and
messages
4a: Strengthen the capacity of
RWPs sot hey are more
effective, and provide
support to the CWPs
4b: GWPO and RWPs improve
organisation, management
and governance
4c: GWPO, RWPsand CWPs
access new and diverse
funding and increase
traditional funding sources
Vision:
…a water secure world
Outcome
Challenges
3.4Strategicmessages
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9. 2009 :
Strategy update
« Building climate
resilience through
water security »
2011 :
« Future Directions »
Climate change
Food security
Urbanization
Transboundary
waters
Financing water
management
2013 :
Thematic focus
areas proposed
following
participatory
global/regional
strategy process
 Climate change
 Food security
 Urbanization
 Transboundary
waters
 Ecosystems
 Energy security
ENDORSED BY MID-TERM STRATEGY REVIEW

10. Disaster Risk
Reduction
Climate
Adaptation
Water
Security
GWP operational strategy for
building climate resilience through water security(Goal 2)
Better climate information
GWP´s approach : - Work with UNFCCC and the COPs (global level)
- Focus on the extreme events : building the integrated flood management and
integrated drought management programmes (with WMO) (regional level)
- Integrate National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) with IWRM plans, and build these into
national development planning (country level)

12. Thank you !
A growing international
network since 1996